Laver
    n 1: 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) [syn: Laver, Rod Laver, Rodney
         George Laver]
    2: (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient
       Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
    3: edible red seaweeds [syn: red laver, laver]
    4: seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds [syn:
       sea lettuce, laver]

Laver \Lav"er\, n. [From Lave to wash.]
   One who laves; a washer. [Obs.]
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Laver \La"ver\ (l[=a]"v[~e]r), n.
   The fronds of certain marine alg[ae] 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.
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   Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the
      genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains
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Laver \Lav"er\ (l[=a]"v[~e]r), n. [OE. lavour, F. lavoir, L.
   lavatorium a washing place. See Lavatory.]
   1. A vessel for washing; a large basin.
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   2. (Script. Hist.)
      (a) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the
          Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed
          their hands and feet.
      (b) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which
          the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.
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   3. That which washes or cleanses. --J. H. Newman.
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Laver
   (Heb. kiyor), a "basin" for boiling in, a "pan" for cooking (1
   Sam. 2:14), a "fire-pan" or hearth (Zech. 12:6), the sacred
   wash-bowl of the tabernacle and temple (Ex. 30:18, 28; 31:9;
   35:16; 38:8; 39:39; 40:7, 11, 30, etc.), a basin for the water
   used by the priests in their ablutions.
   
     That which was originally used in the tabernacle was of brass
   (rather copper; Heb. nihsheth), made from the metal mirrors the
   women brought out of Egypt (Ex. 38:8). It contained water
   wherewith the priests washed their hands and feet when they
   entered the tabernacle (40:32). It stood in the court between
   the altar and the door of the tabernacle (30:19, 21).
   
     In the temple there were ten lavers used for the sacrifices,
   and the molten sea for the ablutions of the priests (2 Chr.
   4:6). The position and uses of these are described 1 Kings
   7:23-39; 2 Chr. 4:6. The "molten sea" was made of copper, taken
   from Tibhath and Chun, cities of Hadarezer, king of Zobah (1
   Chr. 18:8; 1 Kings 7:23-26).
   
     No lavers are mentioned in the second temple.