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e action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." Glover.

ferred to another gratuitously; a gift. And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers. Shak.

A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, or Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon.

The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.

The ring plover. [Prov. Eng.]

ick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland. -- Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]…

spiritual life. Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.

splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.

Filled with enthusiasm; characterized by enthusiasm; zealous; as, an enthusiastic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation." Glover.

obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. I to myself was false, ere thou to me. Milton.

A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. [Obs.] Shak.

se; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden.

-- First or last, at one time or another; at the beginning or end. And all are fools and lovers first or last. Dryden.

With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

; fruitful; fertile. "The foodful earth." Dryden. Bent by its foodful burden [the corn]. Glover.

n reach, or anticipated. All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego. Milton. Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. Keble. [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson.

right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

freckles; spotted. "The freckled trout." Dryden. The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. Shak.

us Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.