n. [ L. angustus narrow + clavus a nail, a stripe. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Opposed to slavery. -- n. Opposition to slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auris ear + lavare to wash. ] An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., fr. Gr. a'yto`s self + L. clavis key. ] 1. A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a device used for sterilizing objects by exposing them to steam at above atmospheric pressure (and thus at a temperature above the normal boiling point of water). It consists of a closed chamber able to withstand internal pressure, and a means of passing superheated steam into the chamber. Autoclaves are made in various sizes, and are much used in hospitals and research laboratories to render instruments and equipment sterile. [ PJC ]

v. t. To enslave. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beslavered p. pr. & vb. n. Beslavering. ] To defile with slaver; to beslobber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master. [ 1913 Webster ]

A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Min.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Cleave. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] The harpsichord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Clevis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Clavate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. cineres clavelatti ashes of burnt lees or dregs of wine, F. clavel an inferior sort of soda, E. clavate. ] (Old Chem.) Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Clover. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering. [ Scot. & North of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. conclave a room that may locked up; con- + clavis key. See Clavicle. ] 1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dens, dentis, tooth + lavare to wash. ] A wash for cleaning the teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. in + clavus a nail. ] A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. enclaver. ] To inclose within an alien territory. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] The state of being an enclave. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enslaved p. pr. & vb. n. Enslaving. ] To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war,
Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves the will. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being enslaved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enslaves. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed fr. enclave by substitution of ex- for en- ] A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. [ Recent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The same territory is an enclave in respect to the surrounding country and an exclave with respect to the country to which it is politically attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flavescens, p. pr. of flavescere to turn yellow. ] Turning yellow; yellowish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Glaive. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glafr flattery. ] 1. To prate; to jabber; to babble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To flatter; to wheedle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flatterer. [ Obs. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Inclavated. ] (Her.) Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. laticlavus, laticlavium; latus broad + clavus nail, a purple stripe on the tunica: cf. F. laticlave. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Laved p. pr. & vb. n. Laving. ] [ F. laver, L. lavare, akin to luere to wash, Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Ablution, Deluge, Lavender, Lava, Lotion. ] To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise. [ 1913 Webster ]

His feet the foremost breakers lave. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bathe; to wash one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. laven. See Lavish. ] To lade, dip, or pour out. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. lāf the remainder, what is left. √119. See Leave. ] The remainder; others. [ Scot. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. W. llaf that extends round, llipa flaccid, flapping, G. lapp flabby, lappohr flap ear. ] Having large, pendent ears. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ D. laveren. ] (Naut.) To beat against the wind; to tack. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lavement, fr. laver to wash. ] A washing or bathing; also, an enema. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lavendre, F. lavande, It. lavanda lavender, a washing, fr. L. lavare to wash; cf. It. lsavendola, LL. lavendula. So called because it was used in bathing and washing. See Lave. to wash, and cf. Lavender. ] 1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (Lavandula vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (Lavandula Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress. --
Lavender water, a perfume, toilet water, or shaving lotion containing the essential oil of lavender, and sometimes the essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris. --
Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary. --
To lay in lavender. (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender. (b) To pawn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ OE. lavour, F. lavoir, L. lavatorium a washing place. See Lavatory. ] 1. A vessel for washing; a large basin. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which washes or cleanses. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lave to wash. ] One who laves; a washer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The fronds of certain marine algæ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lark the bird. ] The lark. [ Old Eng. & Scot. ] [ Written also lavrock. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lave or bathe over. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L. parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See Parable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]