love 
riagc ; the emotional incentive to and normal 
basis of conjugal union: as, to be in love; to 
marry for love. 
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they 
seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 
Gen. xxix. 20. 
But had I wist, before I kiss'd, 
That love had been sae ill to win. 
I'd lock'd my heart in a case of gold, 
And pin'd it with a silver pin. 
Walt/, Waly, but Love be Bonny (Child's Ballads, IV. 134). 
It's good to be off with the old love, 
Before you are on with the new. Old son'j. 
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source 
Of human offspring, sole propriety 
In Paradise of all things common else! 
Milton, P. L., iv. 750. 
Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, 
The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, 
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, 
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. 
Pope, Iliad, xiv. 249. 
3. A beloved person; an object of affectionate 
interest, as a sweetheart or a husband or wife: 
often also used in address as a term of endear- 
ment. 
She hears no tidings of her love. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 867. 
They [the Virginia Indians] would haue beards, but that 
they pluck away the haires ; they haue one wife, many 
loues. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 768. 
What they could my words expressed, 
O my love, my all, my one ! 
Singing helped the verses best. 
Browning, Serenade at the Villa. 
4. [cap.] A personification of the passion of 
love; sexual attraction imagined as an inde- 
pendent power external to its subject : applied 
especially to Cupid (more properly Amor) or 
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To love one's love with an A, B, etc. 
To make love to, to profess affection for (one of the op- 
posite sex); strive to win the affection of.-To play for 
love-letter 
see Zowi ,_..- love-feast (luv'fest), w. 1. Among the primitive 
, kindness, tenderness, de- 
Christians, a meal eaten in token of brotherly 
love and charity, originally in connection with 
the holy communion, and having in common 
with it the name of the Lord's Supper. See 
agape 2 , 1. 2. An analogous service held at in- 
tervals by some religious denominations, as the 
Moravians, the Methodists, and some German 
Baptists. The provision is usually very simple, consist- 
ing of bread and water, sometimes with tea and coffee. 
Singing and the interchange of religious experience ac- 
company the repast. 
love-featt (luv'fet), n. A deed or act of love: 
a wooing. 
Every one his love-feat will advance 
Unto his several mistress. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 123. 
the weakest. Predilection goes a little further, but is only 
a preparatory liking or readiness to love. Attachment has 
much of the notion implied in its derivation ; it is a love 
that binds one to another, an unwillingness to be separated. 
Affection is generally a regulated and conscious love or at- 
tachment ; it goes deeper than attachment. Attachment 
and especially affection are often the refined and mellowed 
fruit of the passion of love. Fondness, originally a fool- 
ish tenderness, is not yet altogether redeemed from that 
idea it may be an unreasoning and doting attachment, 
and is never very high in quality. Devotion is a sort of 
consecration or dedication to the object of one s feeling, love-flower (luv flou"er), n. A plant ot the ge- 
an intense loyalty, as to a superior a constant service. nug ^g a p a nthus. Also called African lily. 
love' 2 t * [< ME. loven, lovien, < AS. lofian, love-grass ( 
1 nIwS^ ( ^^ St ^ cato^ 
St^fctv^Slat eti^'T^rV ^&*%Z* -d^ love-ln-a-n*,,' one of the 
lub,Toe pleasing: see love*, lief, leave 2 , furlough.] 
1. To praise; commend. 
Al loued thai god, with ioyful mode, 
And saynt elyn scho bare the rode. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 95. 
2. To praise as of value ; prize; set a price on. 
The sullere [seller] loveth his thing dere. 
Old Eng. Homilies (ed. Morris), ii. 21S. 
love-in-a-puzzie (l uv ' in ->H )UZ ' 1 )> " Same as 
love-in-a-mist. 
love-in-idleness (luv'in-I'dl-nes), n. The plant 
the heart's-ease. 
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell; 
It fell upon a little western flower, 
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, 
And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 
Shak., M. N. D., ii. 1. 168. 
In the quotation, the 
all thynges to dere. 
Eros, tie' classical god of love, and more rarely loveability, loveable, etc. See lovability, etc. 
to Venus or Aphrodite, the goddess of love. love-affair (luv'a-far"), A special experi- 
ence of love ; the sum of the incidents having 
to do with being in love with any person. 
I love, as a chapman loveth his ware that he wyll sell. 
Jefais. Come, of hewe moche love you it at : BUS combien Inve-iuicet (luv'ios) 
le faictez vous?, .1 love you it nat so dere as it^oste me; ^ of ^ fl ower 
Palsgrave, cation of which to sleeping eyes was supposed 
I wolde be ? ,adde to bye some ware^ 1^ ^^^S &^S^S^ 
for the first living object seen 
Love made those hollows, if himself were slain, 
He might be buried in a tomb so simple. 
Shale., Venus and Adonis, 1. 243. 
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, 
Whatever stirs this mortal frame, 
A And^eedSi1fcredflame. e ' Coleridge, Love, love-apple (luv'ap"l), n. An old name of the 
Confer at large 
Of all that may concern thy love-affairs. 
Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 254. 
But hast thou yet lateh'd the Athenian's eyes 
With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do? 
Shak., M. N. D., iii. 2. 37. 
love-knot (luv'not), n. [< ME. loveknotte; < 
common tomato, Lycopersicum esculentum. 
+ knot 1 .] 1. A knot tied as a symbol of 
loyalty in love ; a true-lovers' knot. 
Another divinatoiy method employed by love-sick maid- 
5. An embodiment arepresentation of Cupid; commo, nato , J^ycoper *m e* C e n7Vs to sleep in a county in which they do not usually 
one of a class of beings poetically imagined as love-bagt, . A charm to procure love Aom. resid d t knit the left garter round the right i 
Another ask't me, who was somewhat bolder, 
Whether I wore a love-bagge on my shoulder? 
Mwsarum Deliace (1656). 
one of a class of beings poetically imagi 
devoted to the interests of lovers, and depicted 
as winged boys. 
I mote perceive how, in her glauncing sight, 
Legions of loves with little wings did fly. 
Spenser, Sonnets, xvi. 
6. Gratification of a sexual passion or desire, 
as in an illicit relation. 
Come, let us take our fill of love, until the morning. 
Prov. vii. 18. 
7f. Akindness; somethingdoneintokenof love. 
What good love may I perform for you? 
Shak., K. John, iv. 1. 49. 
8f. A thin silk stuff . One variety , soft and trans- 
lucent, was used for veils. See love-ribbon. 9. 
In some games, nothing : a term indicating that 
no points have been scored : as, the game was 
two, love (that is, two points on one side and 
nothing on the other); love all (all the players 
have failed to score). 10. An old game in 
which one holds up one or more fingers, and 
another, without looking, guesses at the num- , the sa " ie sroup as the last Also I _ 
ber Davies love-broker (luv'bro"ker), .. One who acts as 
Thecountrymen'splayof holding up our fingers (dimica- *S* between lovers. Shak., T. N., iii. 2. 39. 
Hone digitorum, i. ef the play of love). loVO-CaUSet (luv'kaz), n. A love-affair. ShaK., 
N. Battey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 159. As you Like it, iv. 1. 97. 
11. The plant Clematis Vilalba, the virgin's- love-charm (luv'charm), n. A charm by which 
bower or traveler's-joy Cupboard love See cup- love was supposed to be excited ; a philter. 
board. T " 
lovest, 
thel< 
love-bird (luv'berd), n. 
rakeet, remarkable for the affection it shows for 
its mate. Many species of different genera have this 
trait. They are all of diminutive size. The American 
love-birds belong to the genus Psittacula, and some of 
them have also been called Agapornis. They are such as 
P. passerina, with several related species or varieties, and 
P. purirurata. The true love-birds belong to the restrict- 
ed genus Agapornis, all of which are African. They are 
such as A. cana, A. rndlaria, and A. swinderniana. (See 
cut under Agapornis.) The most familiar of these is A. 
pullaria, scarcely 7 inches long, bright-green with a rose- 
red face and throat, coralline bill, gray feet, and shortround- 
ed tail, which when spread shows a red field bordered 
with a subterminal bar of black. It thrives on canary -seed, 
and makes a charming pet. Another group of love-birds 
inhabits the East Indian archipelago, New Guinea, and 
Australia, and represents divisions of the genus Psittacula 
stocking leaving the other garter and stocking untouched. 
. . . And if spells fail not, he [the future husband] will 
appear in a dream with the insignia of his profession. 
Gay gives a classical example of tying the love-knot, for the 
A little parrot or par- p urpose O f confirming a lover in his passion. 
Hampson, Medii Mvi Kalendarium, I. 151. 
2. A knot or bow of ribbon given or worn as a 
sign of loyalty or affection, or as a decoration. 
"What is holychurche, frend?" quoth ich. "Charite," he 
' Lyf, "and Loue, and Leaute in o by-Ieyue and lawe, 
A loue-knotte of leaute and of leel by-leyue." 
Pirns Plowman (C), xviii. 127. 
Leg and arm with love-knots gay, 
About me leap'd and laugh'd 
The modish Cupid of the day. 
Tennyson, Talking Oak. 
My light glove on his casque of steel, 
My love-knot on his spear ! 
W hittier, The Hero. 
[< ME. lovel, < OP. lovel, 
ML. lupellus, a young wolf, 
dim. of L. lupus (> F. loup), a wolf: see lupus. 
The word lovel remains as the surname Lovel.] 
Wolf : a common name formerly for a dog. 
According to Stowe, p. 847, William Collingborne was 
executed in 1484 for writing the following couplet on the 
king's ministers : 
" The Ratte, the Catte, and Lovell our dogge 
Rule all England under the hogge." UaUiwell. 
A 
Shak., M. N. D., ii. 2. 153. 
And said, Sir, for all loves, 
Let me thy prisoneres seen. 
Sir Ferumbras. (UaUiwell, under all-loves.) 
For love, out of affectionate consideration ; hence, for 
nothing; without compensation or payment, For love 
or money, by any means ; in any way. Free love. See 
technically called spiculum amoris. 
quotation. 
free.-ln love, imbued with affection, especially sexual love-dayt (luv'da), . [< ME. love day; < love* 
anection ; enamored. . -. *. . ^ i_j j _ j.i_ ' ;__T_I_ 
affection ; enamored. 
If he be not in love with some woman, there is no be- 
lieving old signs : a' brushes his hat o' mornings. 
Shak., Much Ado, iii. 2. 40. 
Labor Of love, any work done or task performed with 
eager willingness, either from fondness for the work itself 
or from regard entertained toward the person for whom it 
is done. Love of benevolence or friendship. See be- 
nevolence.ljove of complacency. See love o/fceneuo- 
tence. Natural love, a natural appetite or inclination 
which is common to animals and plants. Sensitive love, love-dnnkt (luv drmgk), n. 
a love common to man and the lower animals. There's love ; a philter or love-potion. 
e^chothe* 08 * tetween them> they have no liking lor love-favor (luv'fa'vpr), . Something given 
There was not a great deal of love lost betmeen Will and 
his half-sister. Thackeray, Virginians, xvii. 
for prowes of armes, 
le my hert. 
Sir Oawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2438. 
Lovelace 2 (luv'las), . [So called after Love- 
A curious organ is a pynform muscular sac, containing , . f THnVmrrlsnTi's tinvpl "flnrisoa 
one or two slender conical styles, which can be thrust out lace < tne I" 5 . J -Kicnardson 8 novel 
through the aperture of the sac ; they are found in certain Harlowe."] A fine-mannered libertine ; a rak- 
snails, and with them they pierce each other's skin. They ish but agreeable man of the world, 
are known as love-darts. Pascoe, Zool. Class., p. 166. l ove _l asst (luv'las), n. A sweetheart. 
So soone as Tython's Inve-lasse gan display 
Her opall colours in her eastern throne. 
.Mir. for Magi., p. 776. 
loveless (luv'les), a. [< love 1 + -less.] 1. Void 
of love ; unloving; wanting tenderness or kind- 
ness. 
Eight years of loveless and uncongenial union. 
The American, VI. 283. 
2f. Not loved; not attracting love; unlovable. 
These are ill-favoured to see to ; and yet, as loveless as 
they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues. 
Holland. 
to be worn in token of love. love-letter (luv'let'er), n. A letter professing 
Deck'd with love-favors. Bp. Hall, Satires, i. 2. love ; a letter of courtship ; a billet-doux. 
+ day.] A day appointed for the amicable 
adjustment of disputes between neighbors by 
arbitration ; a day for reconciliation. 
Mo love-dayes and acordes 
Then on instrumentes ben cordes. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. C95. 
This day shall be a love-day, Tamora. 
Shak., Tit. And., i. 1. 491. 
A drink to excite 
