Read full poem →Round about with eager pry.
Saving when, with freshening lave,
Thou dipp'st them in the taintless wave;
Dictionary Entry
To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. lavelave jean
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Poetry examples for “lave”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, 30
Save that there was no sea to lave its base,
But a most living landscape, and the wave
Read full poem →Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried,[10]
“Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave,
Who sins, once washed by the baptismal wave.”
Read full poem →During the sixty years of the Club's existence nore than eighty-five
a Lave been elected to membership. Our last founder was lirs, Abbie
‚us who passed away a few years agoe
Read full poem →A man I reckon’d was,
An’ wi’ the lave ilk merry morn
Could rank my rig and lass,
Read full poem →Peaceful keep your dimpling wave,
Busy feed, or wanton lave;
Or, beneath the sheltering rock,
Read full poem →We struck a road I didn't recognize,
But welcomed for the chance to lave my shoes
In dust once more. We followed this a mile,
Read full poem →And oh! may Spring's fair flowerets fade, 25
May Summer cease her limbs to lave
In cooling stream, may Autumn grave
Read full poem →(I wot and little gude worth was he)
"We had better lose are than lose a' the lave;
We'll lose the prisoner, we'll gae free."