| clove | noun (n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. |
| | noun (n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. |
| | noun (n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. |
| | verb (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove. |
| | () of Cleave |
| | (imp.) Cleft. |
| cove | noun (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore. |
| | noun (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. |
| | noun (n.) A concave molding. |
| | noun (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight. |
| | noun (n.) A boy or man of any age or station. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. |
| | verb (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. |
| drove | noun (n.) A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body. |
| | noun (n.) Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove. |
| | noun (n.) A crowd of people in motion. |
| | noun (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway. |
| | noun (n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. |
| | noun (n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel. |
| | noun (n.) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work. |
| | noun (n.) To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover. |
| | noun (n.) To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel. |
| | (imp.) of Drive |
| | (imp.) of Drive. |
| groove | noun (n.) A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. |
| | noun (n.) A shaft or excavation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow. |
| love | noun (n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. |
| | noun (n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. |
| | noun (n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. |
| | noun (n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object. |
| | noun (n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God. |
| | noun (n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address. |
| | noun (n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus. |
| | noun (n.) A thin silk stuff. |
| | noun (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba). |
| | noun (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love. |
| move | noun (n.) The act of moving; a movement. |
| | noun (n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game. |
| | noun (n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage. |
| | verb (v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. |
| | verb (v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn. |
| | verb (v. t.) To apply to, as for aid. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly. |
| | verb (v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game. |
| remove | noun (n.) The act of removing; a removal. |
| | noun (n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being removed. |
| | noun (n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else. |
| | noun (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. |
| | noun (n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters. |
| | verb (v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another. |
| rove | noun (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building. |
| | noun (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving. |
| | noun (n.) The act of wandering; a ramble. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. |
| | verb (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning. |
| | verb (v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. |
| | verb (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. |
| | verb (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). |
| | verb (v. t.) To wander over or through. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Reeve |
| shove | noun (n.) The act of shoving; a forcible push. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor. |
| | verb (v. t.) To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle. |
| | verb (v. i.) To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off. |
| | () p. p. of Shove. |
| stove | noun (n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts. |
| | noun (n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. |
| | verb (v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers. |
| | () of Stave |
| | () imp. of Stave. |
