n. [ OE. claver, clover, AS. cl&aemacr_;fre; akin to LG. & Dan. klever, D. klaver, G. klee, Sw. klöfver. ] (Bot.) A plant of different species of the genus
Clover weevil (Zool.)
Clover worm (Zool.),
In clover, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [ Colloq. ] --
Sweet clover.
a. Covered with growing clover. [ 1913 Webster ]
Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]
n. a hairy Eurasian plant (Geum urbanum) with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally.
n. One who believes in or practices free-love. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. [ 1913 Webster ]
Glover's suture
Glover's stitch
(Bot.) Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Love is blind, and lovers can not see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I slew my best lover for the good of Rome. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. As lovers do. [ 1913 Webster ]
As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]
. The stone curlew. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ OF. plovier, F. pluvier, prop., the rain bird, fr. LL. (assumed) pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain; akin to E. float, G. fliessen to flow. See Float. ]
☞ Among the more important species are the
Bastard plover (Zool.),
Long-legged plover,
yellow-legged plover
Plover's page,
Rock plover,
Stone plover
Whistling plover.
The black-bellied plover. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who loves the truth. [ 1913 Webster ]
Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]