[a. F. larve, ad. L. larva.]

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  1.  = LARVA 1.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, I. xvii. (1632), 27. Larves, Hobgoblins, Robbin-good-fellowes, and such other Bug-beares.

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1822.  W. Irving, Braceb. Hall (1823), I. 174. The opinions of the ancient philosophers about larves, or nocturnal phantoms.

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1863.  Veronia, III. 147. Elementary spirits … for which a later philosophy has furnished the designation of larves.

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  † 2.  A mask; lit. and fig. Obs.

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a. 1656.  Hales, Gold. Rem. (1688), 423. Under this larve, this whifling suit of Toleration, there lay personated more dangerous designs.

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1677.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 365. Πρόσωπον signifies … the face, that part … which was covered … with the larve or visard.

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  3.  = LARVA 2.

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1769.  Pennant, Zool., III. 15. We … are uncertain whether we ever met with it [a lizard] under the form of a larve.

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1822–34.  Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 353. Sometimes resembling the larves of insects.

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1852.  Dana, Crust., II. 1594. The animal is probably the larve of some Penæidean.

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