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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.

A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil (Zoöl.) a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very de…

Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

One who believes in or practices free-love.

One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.

Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.

The stone curlew.

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.

the black-bellied plover.

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

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 make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

A lover; a man enamored.

uipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." Glover.