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lāven
v.
28 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To wash (sb. or sth.); bathe (sb.); moisten (sth.); wet; also
fig.
; (b) of water or blood: to stream, flow; swell; well;
lavande teres
, flowing tears;
laven ablode (aswote)
, stream with blood…
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