noun. A basin, bowl, trough, or cistern to wash in.

noun. In heraldry, a colter or plowshare when used as a bearing.

noun. Either of two species of algæ. of the genus Porphyra, P. laciniata and P. vulgaris, known in Ireland and Scotland as sloke or Sloakan.

noun. A dish composed of one of the above algæ or of some similar seaweed. See laver-bread.

Hanging.

noun. Figuratively, the baptismal font; the spiritual regeneration of baptism; any cleansing of the spirit.

noun. One who laves; a washer.

noun. A vessel for washing; a large basin.

noun. undefined

noun. A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.

noun. One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

noun. That which washes or cleanses.

noun. The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and Porphyra vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.

noun. a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains.

noun. A red alga of the genus Porphyra.

noun. A wash-basin.

noun. Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)

noun. seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds

noun. edible red seaweeds

noun. (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions

"And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates."

green laver  purple laver  

nori  

basin  chlorophyte  green algae  red algae  tennis player  

aver  baver  braver  caver  craver  

bloodroot  bright-green  butin  door-plate  drab-colored  

washer  

sloakan  sloke