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noun

Louvre, Louver n. (Arch.)

1.

A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a). (Written also lover, loover, lovery, and luffer)

2.

Same as louver boards, below

3.

A set of slats resembling louver boards, arranged in a vertical row and attached at each slat end to a frame inserted in or part of a door or window; the slats may be made of wood, plastic, or metal, and the angle of inclination of the slats may be adjustable simultaneously, to allow more or less light or air into the enclosure.

Louver boards or Louver boarding, the sloping boards set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc.

Louver work, slatted work.

Lover n.

1.

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

2.

A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country. "I slew my best lover for the good of Rome."

3.

One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music. "A lover of knowledge."

4.

One who is involved in a sexual relationship with another; as, she took a lover.

Lovery, Lover n. See Louver. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Lover'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lover" Quotes from Famous Books

... books is not necessarily a bibliomaniac. There is as much difference between the inclinations and taste of a bibliophile and a bibliomaniac as between a slight cold and the advanced stages of consumption. Some one has said that "to call a bibliophile a bibliomaniac is to conduct a lover, languishing for his maiden's smile, to an asylum for the demented, and to shut him up in the ward for the incurables." Biblio relates to books, and mania is synonymous with madness, insanity, violent derangement, mental aberration, etc. A bibliomaniac, ...

— Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs • Henry H. Harper

... there was a young girl who reached the age of thirty-seven without ever having had a lover, for she was so foolish that no one wanted ...

— The Red Fairy Book • Various

... doubtless display an amount of principle of which I should be quite incapable; and so I am glad that L—— thinks, as I do, that Jane Eyre's safest course would have been to have left Thornfield without meeting her lover's despair. ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

... real diamonds, the thing must be of great value. And it occurred to him at once that such a necklace is not given by a husband even to a bride in the manner described by Lizzie. A ring, or brooch, or perhaps a bracelet, a lover or a loving lord may bring in his pocket. But such an ornament as this on which Lord Fawn was now looking, is given in another sort of way. He felt sure that it was so, even though he was entirely ignorant of the value of the stones. "Do you know what ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

... Duelling, I hope you will do us the Justice to declare, that if the Brute has Courage enough to send to the Place where he saw us all alight together to get rid of him, there is not one of us but has a Lover who shall avenge the Insult. It would certainly be worth your Consideration, to look into the frequent Misfortunes of this kind, to which the Modest and Innocent are exposed, by the licentious ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

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