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Laver   /lˈeɪvər/   Listen
noun
Laver  n.  
1.
A vessel for washing; a large basin.
2.
(Script. Hist.)
(a)
A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
(b)
One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.
3.
That which washes or cleanses.



Laver  n.  One who laves; a washer. (Obs.)



Laver  n.  The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and Porphyra vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; called also sloke, or sloakan.
Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains






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"Laver" Quotes from Famous Books



... by Laver. 1471. Folio. A good, sound copy; and among the very rarest books from the press of Laver, in such condition. ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... former with a bason and ewer of gold weighing 242 ozs. 14 dwts., and the latter with another bason and ewer, as well as with two flower pots, a perfume and chafing dish, two fruit baskets, a kettle and laver and a warming pan, the whole weighing 934 ozs. 9 dwts. Cromwell was also presented with a purse containing L200 in twenty-shilling pieces.(960) Thomas Vyner, a goldsmith of repute, who was sheriff at the time, provided the plate at ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe

... 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 applications ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell

... if ye doubt the tale I tell, Steer through the South Pacific swell; Go where the branching coral hives Unending strife of endless lives, Where, leagued about the 'wildered boat, The rainbow jellies fill and float; And, lilting where the laver lingers, The starfish trips on all her fingers; Where, 'neath his myriad spines ashock, The sea-egg ripples down the rock; An orange wonder dimly guessed, From darkness where the cuttles rest, Moored o'er the darker deeps ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling

... dedicate to Thee The rolling trochee and iambus swift; Thou wilt approve my simple minstrelsy, Thine ear will listen to Thy servant's gift. The rich man's halls are nobly furnished; Therein no nook or corner empty seems; Here stands the brazen laver burnished, And there the golden goblet brightly gleams; Hard by some crock of clumsy earthen ware, Massive and ample lies a silver plate; And rough-hewn cups of oak or elm are there With vases carved of ivory delicate. Yet every vessel in its place is good, ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius


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