'Love' definitions:

Definition of 'Love'

From: GCIDE
  • Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See Lief.]
  • 1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. [1913 Webster]
  • Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. [1913 Webster]
  • He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. [1913 Webster]
  • Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object. [1913 Webster]
  • Love, and health to all. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Smit with the love of sacred song. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • The love of science faintly warmed his breast. --Fenton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Due gratitude and reverence to God. [1913 Webster]
  • Keep yourselves in the love of God. --Jude 21. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading. "Trust me, love." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Open the temple gates unto my love. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus. [1913 Webster]
  • Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.] --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. (Bot.) A climbing species of Clematis ({Clematis Vitalba}). [1913 Webster]
  • 10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • He won the match by three sets to love. --The Field. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism. [PJC]
  • Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked, love-taught, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • A labor of love, a labor undertaken on account of regard for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself, without expectation of reward.
  • Free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See Free love.
  • Free lover, one who avows or practices free love.
  • In love, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love.
  • Love apple (Bot.), the tomato.
  • Love bird (Zool.), any one of several species of small, short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus Agapornis, and allied genera. They are mostly from Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are celebrated for the affection which they show for their mates.
  • Love broker, a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak.
  • Love charm, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton.
  • Love child. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen.
  • Love day, a day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Chaucer.
  • Love drink, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer.
  • Love favor, something given to be worn in token of love.
  • Love feast, a religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agap[ae] of the early Christians.
  • Love feat, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak.
  • Love game, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished person or party does not score a point.
  • Love grass. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus Eragrostis.
  • Love-in-a-mist. (Bot.) (a) An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts. (b) The West Indian Passiflora f[oe]tida, which has similar bracts.
  • Love-in-idleness (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy. [1913 Webster]
  • A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness. --Shak.
  • Love juice, juice of a plant supposed to produce love. --Shak.
  • Love knot, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection. --Milman.
  • Love lass, a sweetheart.
  • Love letter, a letter of courtship. --Shak.
  • Love-lies-bleeding (Bot.), a species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
  • Love match, a marriage brought about by love alone.
  • Love potion, a compounded draught intended to excite love, or venereal desire.
  • Love rites, sexual intercourse. --Pope
  • Love scene, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the stage.
  • Love suit, courtship. --Shak.
  • Of all loves, for the sake of all love; by all means. [Obs.] "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again." --Holinshed.
  • The god of love, or The Love god, Cupid.
  • To make love, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.
  • To make love to, to express affection for; to woo. "If you will marry, make your loves to me." --Shak.
  • To play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes. "A game at piquet for love." --Lamb. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Love'

From: GCIDE
  • Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loved (l[u^]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Loving.] [AS. lufian. [root]124. See Love, n.]
  • 1. To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. --Matt. xxii. 37. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. --Matt. xxii. 39. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures. [1913 Webster]
  • Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Love'

From: GCIDE
  • Love \Love\, v. i. To have the feeling of love; to be in love. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Love'

From: Easton
  • Love This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with "Simon, the son of Jonas," after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, "Lovest thou me?" he uses the Greek word _agapas_; and when Simon answers, he uses the Greek word _philo_, i.e., "I love." This is the usage in the first and second questions put by our Lord; but in the third our Lord uses Simon's word. The distinction between these two Greek words is thus fitly described by Trench:, "_Agapan_ has more of judgment and deliberate choice; _philein_ has more of attachment and peculiar personal affection. Thus the 'Lovest thou' (Gr. agapas) on the lips of the Lord seems to Peter at this moment too cold a word, as though his Lord were keeping him at a distance, or at least not inviting him to draw near, as in the passionate yearning of his heart he desired now to do. Therefore he puts by the word and substitutes his own stronger 'I love' (Gr. philo) in its room. A second time he does the same. And now he has conquered; for when the Lord demands a third time whether he loves him, he does it in the word which alone will satisfy Peter ('Lovest thou,' Gr. phileis), which alone claims from him that personal attachment and affection with which indeed he knows that his heart is full."
  • In 1 Cor. 13 the apostle sets forth the excellency of love, as the word "charity" there is rendered in the Revised Version.

Love -- U.S. County in Oklahoma

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Love -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
Population (2000) :
8831
Housing Units (2000) :
4066
Land area (2000) :
515.382755 sq. miles (1334.835151 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
16.560771 sq. miles (42.892198 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
531.943526 sq. miles (1377.727349 sq. km)
Located within :
Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location :
33.941304 N, 97.194143 W

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