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Laver   /lˈeɪvər/   Listen
Laver

noun
1.
Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938).  Synonyms: Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver.
2.
(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions.
3.
Edible red seaweeds.  Synonym: red laver.
4.
Seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds.  Synonym: sea lettuce.






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"Laver" Quotes from Famous Books



... and let Thine enemies be scattered. Dip me deeper in Jordan. Wash me in the laver of regeneration. Give me courage to wrestle with ill-doers. Let my ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell

... insisted—mingling reproof, menace; and somewhat imperious demands—that the indecent Saturnalia should cease. It would have been wiser for him to retire. Count Hoogstraaten, a young man and small of stature, seized the gilt laver, in which the company had dipped their fingers before seating themselves at table: "Be quiet, be quiet, little man," said Egmont, soothingly, doing his best to restrain the tumult. "Little man, indeed," responded the Count, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... names. The peninsula was called the Cruives—an old name apparently, for it was in antique lettering. He vaguely remembered that "cruives" had something to do with fishing, doubtless in the two streams which flanked it. One he had already crossed, the Laver, a clear tumbling water springing from green hills; the other, the Garple, descended from the rougher mountains to the south. The hidden village bore the name of Dalquharter, and the uncouth syllables awoke some vague recollection in his mind. The great house in the trees beyond—it must be a ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan

... fast-ushering star of morning comes O'er-riding the grey hills with golden scarf; Or when the cowled and dusky-sandalled Eve, In mourning weeds, from out the western gate, Departs with silent pace! That spirit moves In the green valley, where the silver brook, From its full laver, pours the white cascade; And, babbling low amid the tangled woods, Slips down through moss-grown stones with endless laughter. And frequent, on the everlasting hills, Its feet go forth, when it doth wrap ...
— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

... let down, the end marked C, as much as is necessary, to give it an equal Bent to the other. This is done by the help of an excentrical piece, which is traversed by a Cylinder, which the Master turns with a Laver, which he holds in his left Hand. D, E E is the Capital of the Catapulta. EE are the holes through which the Rope passeth to draw the Beams. F is the end of one of the Beams represented in great. G is one of the Pins which travers'd a round Eye, by ...
— An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius - Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author • Vitruvius

... is weak, father; I do not see my way to speak." Presently he said, "Sin after baptism is so awful a matter; there is no second laver for sin; and then again, to sin against baptism is ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman



Words linked to "Laver" :   Old Testament, genus Porphyra, green algae, genus Ulva, red algae, chlorophyte, Rodney George Laver, basin, Ulva, sea lettuce, tennis player, Porphyra



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