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GLAVER

Definitions: GLAVER

GLAVER

Intransitive verb

1. To flatter; to wheedle.

2. To prate; to jabber; to babble.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Glaver \Glav"er\, intransitive verb. [Of Celtic origin; compare to Welsh glafr flattery.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: GLAVER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "GLAVER"

Words rhyming with "GLAVER" (pronounced 'Glav"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GLAVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gravel.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r-v"

-1 letter: argle, gavel, glare, grave, lager, large, laver, ravel, regal, velar.

-2 letters: ager, aver, earl, egal, gale, gave, gear, lave, lear, leva, rage, rale, rave, real, vale, veal, vela, vera.

-3 letters: age, ale, are, ave, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, lag, lar, lav, lea, leg, lev, rag, reg, rev, var, veg.

-4 letters: ae.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r-v"
 

+1 letter: gravels, gravely, verglas, vorlage.

 

+2 letters: graveled, gravelly, lawgiver, leverage, overglad, raveling, salvager, travelog, villager, vorlages, vulgarer.

 

+3 letters: almsgiver, averagely, clavering, everglade, graveless, graveling, gravelled, laveering, lawgivers, leveraged, leverages, marveling, overglaze, overlarge, palsgrave, ravelings, ravelling, revaluing, revealing, salvagers, slavering, traveling, travelogs, verglases, viceregal, villagers, villagery, vulgarest, vulgarise, vulgarize.

 

+4 letters: almsgivers, everglades, forgivable, galvanizer, governable, gravelling, leveraging, marvelling, overglazes, overlading, overlaying, overslaugh, palavering, palsgraves, prevailing, ravellings, reavailing, regulative, starveling, travelling, travelogue, unraveling, velarizing, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes, waveringly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GLAVER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 4C 41 56 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-..    .-    ...-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001100 01000001 01010110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#76 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 0041 0056 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

414635563952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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