lave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: lafe
form: laif
form: law
Etymology: From Northern Middle English lave, Middle English love, Early Middle English lafe (“remainder, rest; legacy; relict, widow”), from Old English lāf (“remainder, rest; heirloom; legacy; relict, widow”), from Proto-West Germanic *laibu (“remainder”), from Proto-Germanic *laibō (“remainder, remnant”), from *lībaną (“to be left, to remain”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick; fat or sticky substance”). Doublet of belive (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) to remain, stay”).
Cognates
* Old English belīfan (“to remain”)
* Old High German leiba (“to lave”)
* Old Norse leif (“to lave”)
Senses: examples: text: Of prelates proud, a populous lave, / And abbots boldly there vvere known. / VVith Biſhop of St. Andrevv's brave, / VVho vvas King James's baſtard ſon.
ref: 16th – early 17th century (date written), “Part I. Fit I. Stanza CXXVII.”, in An Exact and Circumstantial History of the Battle of Floddon. […], Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland: […] R. Taylor; London: E[dward] and C[harles] Dilly […], and G. Freer, […], published 1774, →OCLC, page 31:
text: The Mother, vvi' a vvoman's vviles, can ſpy / VVhat makes the Youth ſae baſhfu' and ſae grave; / VVeel-pleas'd to think her bairn's reſpected like the lave.
ref: 1785–1786 (date written; published 1786), Robert Burns, “The Cotter’s Saturday Night”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 7:
text: [D]inna vex him ony mair, I'll pay the lave out o' the butter siller, and nae mair words about it.
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XIX, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 138:
english: Don't vex him any more, I'll pay the rest out of the butter silver, and no more words about it.
translation: Don't vex him any more, I'll pay the rest out of the butter silver, and no more words about it.
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text: [A]uld Mucklebacket's gane wi' the lave—muckle gude he'll do!
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Antiquary. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 334:
english: Old Mucklebucket's gone with the rest—much good he'll do!
translation: Old Mucklebucket's gone with the rest—much good he'll do!
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text: [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [VI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 133:
english: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
translation: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
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text: Noo, Annie, pit on yer bonnet, an' gang to the schuil wi' the lave (rest); an' be a good girrl.
ref: 1865, George Mac Donald, chapter IX, in Alec Forbes of Howglen. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 53:
english: No, Annie, put on your bonnet, and go to the school with the rest; and be a good girl.
translation: No, Annie, put on your bonnet, and go to the school with the rest; and be a good girl.
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text: Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight; and I also fled after I had gotten a wound, a grievous hurt, whilst the Arabs were taken up with the money and the presents which were with us.
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Second Kalandar’s Tale. [Night 12.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 114:
text: Give to me the life I love, / Let the lave go by me, / Give the jolly heaven above / And the byway nigh me.
ref: a. 1895 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Vagabond (to an Air of Schubert)”, in S[idney] C[olvin], editor, Songs of Travel and Other Verses, London: Chatto and Windus, […], published 1896, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1:
synonyms: word: residue
word: lave
word: leavings
word: leftover
word: ort
word: relic
word: remainder
word: remains
word: remanent
word: remnant
word: residue
word: residuum
word: rest
word: rump
glosses: That which is left over; a remainder, a remnant, the rest.
glosses: A relict, a widow.