lavers

Noun (1)

laver (countable and uncountable, plural lavers)

1. A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
   • To roast a leg, haunch, or saddle of mutton. […] A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout; or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup and seasonings.1847, Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone], “Roasting”, in The Cook and Housewife’s Manual. […], 8th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; London; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →OCLC...
2. Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially
3. Porphyra vulgaris

Noun (2)

laver (plural lavers)

1. Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
2. That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
   • Infinit streames continually did well / Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, / The which into an ample lauer fell […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   washbasin

3. The spiritual washing or ablution of baptism.
   • She was afterwards regenerated by the laver of holy baptism, and lived for many years in the service of that knight (as I have frequently heard from him and his family), and was rather loose and wanton in her conduct.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 282

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