"lave" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lave net"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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        "3": "laven",
        "t": "to wash; pour out; stream; bail or draw water, drain, exhaust"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English laven (“to wash; pour out; stream; bail or draw water, drain, exhaust”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ang",
        "3": "lafian"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English lafian",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ġelafian",
        "t": "to pour; refresh"
      },
      "expansion": "ġelafian (“to pour; refresh”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*labōn",
        "t": "to refresh; revive; strengthen"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *labōn (“to refresh; revive; strengthen”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "laver"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French laver",
      "name": "noncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "lavō",
        "t": "to wash, bathe"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lavō (“to wash, bathe”)",
      "name": "noncog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "λωφάω",
        "t": "to recover, rest"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek λωφάω (lōpháō, “to recover, rest”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English laven (“to wash; pour out; stream; bail or draw water, drain, exhaust”), from Old English lafian, ġelafian (“to pour; refresh”), from Proto-West Germanic *labōn (“to refresh; revive; strengthen”), of uncertain origin. Influenced by Old French laver and Latin lavō (“to wash, bathe”). Sometimes compared to Ancient Greek λωφάω (lōpháō, “to recover, rest”), also of unknown origin.",
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    {
      "form": "laves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lather"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "launder"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "laundry"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lavender"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lavish"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lavy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lye"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "pour",
          "pour"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ],
        [
          "lade",
          "lade"
        ],
        [
          "bail",
          "bail"
        ],
        [
          "bail out",
          "bail out"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To draw, as water; drink in."
      ],
      "id": "en-lave-en-verb-aCtAAcWI",
      "links": [
        [
          "draw",
          "draw"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To draw, as water; drink in."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give bountifully; lavish."
      ],
      "id": "en-lave-en-verb-RnfDyA4d",
      "links": [
        [
          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "lavish",
          "lavish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To give bountifully; lavish."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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          "name": "Middle English links with redundant alt parameters",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run down or gutter, as a candle."
      ],
      "id": "en-lave-en-verb-1eQ0Byuc",
      "links": [
        [
          "run",
          "run"
        ],
        [
          "gutter",
          "gutter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To hang or flap down."
      ],
      "id": "en-lave-en-verb-goy1lac8",
      "links": [
        [
          "hang",
          "hang"
        ],
        [
          "flap",
          "flap"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1789, William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from, Fourteen Sonnets",
          "text": "the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems",
          "text": "[…] Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, / Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wash."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "wash",
          "wash"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literary or poetic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, literary or poetic) To wash."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 July 15, Miranda Lee, The Boss's Baby, Harlequin",
          "text": "[…] he drawled, and bent to lave each nipple with his tongue till the satin was wet and clinging.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 August 1, Eliza Knight, A Lady's Charade, Eliza Knight, page 122",
          "text": "Alexander went from laving at her breasts to nuzzling her belly and then his mouth was on her bare thigh, nibbling at her flesh as his fingers delved inside her sheath. She felt herself stretch and squeeze against his long fingers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 February 21, Scarlet Blackwell, Beached Hearts, Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)",
          "text": "Liam's mouth was so hot and wet on his cock, his tongue so wicked, laving his shaft expertly with smooth, slick strokes, delving into his slit and swiping away the fluid leaking from it. Why was Liam doing this?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 1, Leslie Kelly, Jo Leigh, Karen Foley, Susanna Carr, Harlequin Blaze May 2014 Bundle: An Anthology, Harlequin",
          "text": "He continued to lave her with gentle laps, while his fingers caressed her until she cried out and her whole body convulsed. He felt her muscles contracting around his fingers, but he didn't stop until he'd wrung every last shiver from [her].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June 11, Melissa Foster, Healed by Love (Love in Bloom: The Bradens), World Literary Press",
          "text": "He pressed them back down and continued licking, laving at her as her inner muscles contracted around his fingers and she panted out his name. He didn't relent until the last shudder rippled through her beautiful body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 April 15, Elizabeth Lennox, The Prince's Forbidden Lover, Elizabeth Lennox Books LLC",
          "text": "[…] but it took only a few moments of his tongue laving at her core before she was exploding in a mind-drugging climax that made her throat sore from her cries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lick."
      ],
      "id": "en-lave-en-verb-jY5lp9Fg",
      "links": [
        [
          "lick",
          "lick"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/leɪv/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪv"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Elmar Seebold",
    "Etymological Dictionary of the German Language",
    "de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache"
  ],
  "word": "lave"
}

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        "g3": "",
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        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
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      },
      "expansion": "Northern Middle English lave (“remainder, rest, that which is left”)",
      "name": "inh"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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      "args": {
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  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Northern Middle English lave (“remainder, rest, that which is left”), from Old English lāf (“lave, remainder, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *laibu, from Proto-Germanic *laibō (“remainder”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”).\nCognate with Old High German leiba (“lave”), Old Norse leif (“lave”), Old English belīfan (“to remain”). More at belive.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114",
          "text": "Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses.\nGive to me the life I love, / Let the lave go by me..."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others."
      ],
      "id": "en-lave-en-noun-vvmBXkbZ",
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        [
          "remainder",
          "remainder"
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        ],
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          "remnant",
          "remnant"
        ],
        [
          "others",
          "others"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "that which is left",
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        "archaic",
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      ]
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1807, Ancient historic ballads - Page 72",
          "text": "Of prelates proud, a populous lave, And abbots boldly there were known."
        }
      ],
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        "A crowd"
      ],
      "id": "en-lave-en-noun-t1VBo6SK",
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        [
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        "(dialectal) A crowd"
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        "dialectal",
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      "ipa": "/leɪv/"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪv"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "residue"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "lafe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "laif"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
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      "word": "law"
    }
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}

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    {
      "word": "lave net"
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      "args": {
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English laven (“to wash; pour out; stream; bail or draw water, drain, exhaust”), from Old English lafian, ġelafian (“to pour; refresh”), from Proto-West Germanic *labōn (“to refresh; revive; strengthen”), of uncertain origin. Influenced by Old French laver and Latin lavō (“to wash, bathe”). Sometimes compared to Ancient Greek λωφάω (lōpháō, “to recover, rest”), also of unknown origin.",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "laving",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lather"
    },
    {
      "word": "launder"
    },
    {
      "word": "laundry"
    },
    {
      "word": "lavender"
    },
    {
      "word": "lavish"
    },
    {
      "word": "lavy"
    },
    {
      "word": "lye"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out."
      ],
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          "pour",
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        ],
        [
          "throw",
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          "lade",
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          "bail",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To draw, as water; drink in."
      ],
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        [
          "draw",
          "draw"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To draw, as water; drink in."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give bountifully; lavish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "give",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "lavish",
          "lavish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To give bountifully; lavish."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run down or gutter, as a candle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "run",
          "run"
        ],
        [
          "gutter",
          "gutter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hang or flap down."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hang",
          "hang"
        ],
        [
          "flap",
          "flap"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English literary terms",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1789, William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from, Fourteen Sonnets",
          "text": "the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems",
          "text": "[…] Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, / Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wash."
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        [
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        [
          "intransitive",
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        ],
        [
          "poetic",
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        ],
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          "wash",
          "wash"
        ]
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        "(transitive, intransitive, literary or poetic) To wash."
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        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "2011 July 15, Miranda Lee, The Boss's Baby, Harlequin",
          "text": "[…] he drawled, and bent to lave each nipple with his tongue till the satin was wet and clinging.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 August 1, Eliza Knight, A Lady's Charade, Eliza Knight, page 122",
          "text": "Alexander went from laving at her breasts to nuzzling her belly and then his mouth was on her bare thigh, nibbling at her flesh as his fingers delved inside her sheath. She felt herself stretch and squeeze against his long fingers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 February 21, Scarlet Blackwell, Beached Hearts, Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)",
          "text": "Liam's mouth was so hot and wet on his cock, his tongue so wicked, laving his shaft expertly with smooth, slick strokes, delving into his slit and swiping away the fluid leaking from it. Why was Liam doing this?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 1, Leslie Kelly, Jo Leigh, Karen Foley, Susanna Carr, Harlequin Blaze May 2014 Bundle: An Anthology, Harlequin",
          "text": "He continued to lave her with gentle laps, while his fingers caressed her until she cried out and her whole body convulsed. He felt her muscles contracting around his fingers, but he didn't stop until he'd wrung every last shiver from [her].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June 11, Melissa Foster, Healed by Love (Love in Bloom: The Bradens), World Literary Press",
          "text": "He pressed them back down and continued licking, laving at her as her inner muscles contracted around his fingers and she panted out his name. He didn't relent until the last shudder rippled through her beautiful body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 April 15, Elizabeth Lennox, The Prince's Forbidden Lover, Elizabeth Lennox Books LLC",
          "text": "[…] but it took only a few moments of his tongue laving at her core before she was exploding in a mind-drugging climax that made her throat sore from her cries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To lick."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lick",
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    {
      "ipa": "/leɪv/"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪv"
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    "Elmar Seebold",
    "Etymological Dictionary of the German Language",
    "de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache"
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}

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    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Northern Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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    "English uncountable nouns",
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      "args": {
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
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        {
          "ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114",
          "text": "Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses.\nGive to me the life I love, / Let the lave go by me..."
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        "The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others."
      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1807, Ancient historic ballads - Page 72",
          "text": "Of prelates proud, a populous lave, And abbots boldly there were known."
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      ],
      "glosses": [
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        "(dialectal) A crowd"
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      "ipa": "/leɪv/"
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      "tags": [
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}