Word Meanings - BEMEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To meet. Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.

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• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• LOVELILY
  In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway.
• SISTER
  AS. sweostor, sweoster, swuster, akin to OFries. sweester, suster, LG. süster, suster, D. zuster, OS. & OHG. swestar, G. schwester, Icel. systir, Sw. syster, Dan. söster, Goth. swistar, Lith. ses, Russ. sestra, Pol. siostra, L. soror, Skr. svasr.
• LOVELOCK
  A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• LOVABLE
  Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Tennyson.
• LOVE-SICK
  1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden. 2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.
• LOVELORN
  Forsaken by one's love. The lovelorn nightingale. Milton.
• LOVING-KINDNESS
  Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.
• LOVINGNESS
  Affection; kind regard. The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness. Sir. P. Sidney.
• 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;
• LOVE-MAKING
  Courtship. Bacon.
• LOVEABLE
  See LOVABLE
• LOVINGLY
  With love; affectionately.
• SISTERING
  Contiguous. Shak.
• LOVELY
  1. Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. "Lovely to look on." Piers Plowman. Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. Robert of Brunne. If I
• LOVEE
  One who is loved. "The lover and lovee." Richardson.
• LOVE-DRURY
  Affection. Chaucer.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• CLOVEN
  from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.
• CLOVE
  imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch See under Hitch. -- Clove hook , an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.
• SLOVENLINESS
  The quality or state of being slovenly.
• TRUELOVE
  A plant. See Paris. 3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury. Under his tongue a truelove he bore. Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does
• LIGHT-O'-LOVE
  1. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak. 2. Hence: A light or wanton woman. Beau. & Fl.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• CARLOVINGIAN
  Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings.
• SEA PLOVER
  the black-bellied plover.
• UNGLOVE
  To take off the glove or gloves of; as, to unglove the hand. Beau. & Fl.