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A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

atra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts. Small landscapes of captivating loveliness. W. Irving.

Subdued by love; charmed; captivated. Even in so short a space, my wonan's heart Grossly grew captive to his honey words. Shak.

g body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule. "To pamper his own carcass." South. Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature. For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. Oldham.

To have regard or affection for; to like or love. He cared not for the affection of the house. Tennyson.

To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble. And carol of love's high praise. Spenser. The gray linnets carol from the hill. Beattie.

ars of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

lymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. [Written also cedren.]

that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society. "The cement of our love."

le; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

e clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention. They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Peele.

a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

Love; universal benevolence; good will.

purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.

To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden.

To give expression to in a chirping tone. Cheep and twitter twenty million loves. Tennyson.

Love; tender regard. [Obs.] Chaucer.