Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lave

Lave (lāv) , transitive verb

[French laver, Latin lavare, akin to luere to wash, Greek {not transcribed}. Compare Ablution, Deluge, Lavender, Lava, Lotion.]

To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
His feet the foremost breakers lave. — Byron

Lave , intransitive verb

To bathe; to wash one's self.
In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. — Pope

Lave , transitive verb

[Old English laven. See Lavish.]

To lade, dip, or pour out. [Obsolete] — Dryden

Lave , noun

[Anglo-Saxon lāf the remainder, what is left. r119. See Leave.]

The remainder; others. [Scottish] — Bp. Hall