[f. LAVE v.1 + -ING2.] That laves in various senses; † flowing, washing, purifying; bathing (in quot. intr.).

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13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 366. Þe mukel lauande loghe to þe lyfte rered.

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13[?].  S. Erkenwolde, 314, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 273. He … to þe toumbe lokyd, To þe liche þer hit lay with lauande teres.

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1671.  Milton, P. R., I. 280. As I rose out of the laving stream.

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1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. xxiv. Thus bending o’er the vessel’s laving side, To gaze on Dian’s wave-reflected sphere.

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