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Definition of Laver

1. Noun. 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).

2. Noun. (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions.

3. Noun. Edible red seaweeds.

4. Noun. Seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds.

Definition of Laver

1. n. A vessel for washing; a large basin.

2. n. One who laves; a washer.

3. n. The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.

Definition of Laver

1. Noun. A red alga of the genus ''Porphyra''. ¹

2. Noun. A wash-basin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Laver

1. a vessel used for ancient Hebrew ceremonial washings [n -S]

Medical Definition of Laver

1. The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purlpe laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. Vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; called also sloke, or sloakan. Mountain laver, a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laver

laveered laveering laveers lavement lavements lavender lavender cotton lavender marriages lavendered lavendering

lavenderish lavenders lavendery lavendulan laver (current term) laverbread laverock laverocks lavers laves

laveur laving laviscious lavish lavished lavisher lavishers lavishes lavishest

Literary usage of Laver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by Sir William Smith (1888)
"It rested onu basis,0 it a foot, though by some explained to be a cover (Clemens, ibid. ch. iii. 5), of copper or brass, which, as well as the laver ..."

2. A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry by Henry Gough, James Parker (1894)
"... and is represented as in the margin, while the Ploughshare or Coulter, or as it is called by some heralds laver cutter is represented below. ..."

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