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noun

Clove n. A cleft; a gap; a ravine; rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.

Clove n. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophullus aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.

Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin.

Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

Clove n.

(Bot.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. "Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves."

A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. (Prov. Eng.)

verb

Cleave v. t. (past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving)

To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. "O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain."

To part or open naturally; to divide. "Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws."

Cleave v. i. (past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving)

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. "My bones cleave to my skin." "The diseases of Egypt... shall cleave unto thee." "Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects."

To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife." "Cleave unto the Lord your God."

To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. (Poetic.) "New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use."

Cleave v. i. (past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving) To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost. "The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst."

Clove past Cleft.

Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch.

Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; called also clip hook.

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"Clove" Quotes from Famous Books

... gaze in front of a bed of fiery-cross. Was its scarlet not finer than Lady Hindlip? Lady Hindlip, like fiery-cross, is scentless, and not so hardy. No white carnation compares with Shiela; but her calyx often bursts, and he considered the claims of an old pink-flaked clove carnation, striped like a French brocade. But it straggled a little in growth, and he decided that for hardiness he must give the verdict to Raby Castle. True that everyone grows Raby Castle, but no carnation is so hardy or flowers ...

— The Lake • George Moore

... like to see you beg. It's not so easy as you might suppose. I played it on being a shipwrecked mariner from Blyth; I don't know where Blyth is, do you? but I thought it sounded natural. I begged from a little beast of a schoolboy, and he forked out a bit of twine, and asked me to make a clove hitch; I did, too, I know I did, but he said it wasn't, he said it was a granny's knot, and I was a what-d'ye-call-'em, and he would give me in charge. Then I begged from a naval officer—he never bothered me with knots, but he only gave me a tract; there's a nice account of ...

— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... people of Utrecht, and of certain other towns, but by the States of Overyssel he was not received. Wherefore these States were placed under an Interdict, and a great controversy arose among Clerks and people, for some observed the Interdict, but the chief ones of the States with those that clove to ...

— The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes • Thomas a Kempis

... some spare coils of rope from the lockers, he put a clove-hitch on the standing part of the sea-anchor hawser, and carried the new running-line aft, making it fast to the stern bitts. Then he cast off from the forward bitts. The Dazzler swung off into the trough, ...

— The Cruise of the Dazzler • Jack London

... fortune," and he could hardly wait for Monday to come and let him restore the cap to its owner and receive an enduring prosperity in reward of his virtue. Heaven knows what form he expected this to take; but when he found himself in the store, he lost all courage; his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not utter a syllable of the fine phrases he had made to himself. He laid the cap on the counter without a word; the storekeeper came up and took it in his hand. "What's this?" he said. "Why, this is ours," ...

— Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells • William Dean Howells

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