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To love to excess.

Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.

To love in return. [Obs.] Boyle.

the black-bellied plover.

The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

ess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut. Pope. He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being slovenly.

Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange.

Slovenliness. [Obs.] Fuller.

Slovenliness. [Obs.] Shak.

One really beloved.

One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.

To take off the glove or gloves of; as, to unglove the hand. Beau. & Fl.

To cease to love; to hate. [Obs.]

Not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant. -- Un*love"li*ness, n.

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

rom blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

is speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses: