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ds admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. Keble.

Affection. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Courtship. Bacon.

Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden.

The state of being love-sick.

See Lovable.

One who is loved. [Humorous] "The lover and lovee." Richardson.

Full of love. [Obs.] Sylvester.

Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness. Milton. Shelton.

In manner to excite love; amiably. [R.] Otway.

The state or quality of being lovely. If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.

earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.

Forsaken by one's love. The lovelorn nightingale. Milton.

Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. "Lovely to look on." Piers Plowman. Not one so fair of face, of speech so lovely. Robert of Brunne. If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers. Shak…

One who deals in affairs of love.[Obs.] Shak.

One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower. Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak.

See Louver. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.

Lovely. [Obs.]

To love. [Obs.] Wodroephe.