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Word Meanings - BEAU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

beau fine, beautiful, fr. L. bellus pretty, fine, for bonulus, dim. 1. A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy. 2. A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover.

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  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • LOVERWISE
    As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
  • SWAINLING
    A little swain.
  • LOVER
    1. One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower. Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak. 2. A friend; one strongly attached to another;
  • SWAINMOTE
    A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders,
  • SWEETHEARTING
    Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
  • SWAINSHIP
    The condition of a swain.
  • SWAIN
    1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak.
  • WOOER
    One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." Gibber.
  • SUITOR
    1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. One who sues or prosecutes a demand in
  • LOVER; LOVERY
    See HALL
  • SWAINISH
    Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. Emerson.
  • SEA PLOVER
    the black-bellied plover.
  • BOATSWAIN
    An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. The jager gull. The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain.
  • FREE-LOVER
    One who believes in or practices free-love.
  • TRUTH-LOVER
    One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
  • PLOVER
    Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds. (more info) LL. pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain;
  • HART'S CLOVER
    Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.
  • COCKSWAIN
    The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
  • NORFOLK PLOVER
    The stone curlew.
  • CLOVER
    A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm
  • GLOVER
    One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.

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