TRUELOVE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One really beloved.

2.
n.

A plant. See Paris.

3.
n.

An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury. Under his tongue a truelove he bore. Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.


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