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Webster 1913 Edition

Clove

Clove

,
imp.
of
Cleave
.
Cleft.
Spenser.
Clove hitch
(Naut.)
See under
Hitch
.
–
Clove hook
(Naut.)
,
an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; – called also
clip hook
.
Knight.

Clove

,
Noun.
[D.
kloof
. See
Cleave
,
Verb.
T.
]
A cleft; a gap; a ravine; – rarely used except as part of a proper name;
as, Kaaterskill
Clove
; Stone
Clove
.

Clove

,
Noun.
[OE.
clow
, fr. F.
clou
nail,
clou de girofle
a clove, lit. nail of clove, fr. L.
clavus
nail, perh. akin to
clavis
key, E.
clavicle
. The clove was so called from its resemblance to a nail. So in D.
kruidnagel
clove, lit.
herb-nail
or
spice-nail
. Cf.
Cloy
.]
A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (
Eugenia aromatica
syn.
Caryophullus aromatica
), a native of the Molucca Isles.
Clove camphor
.
(Chem.)
See
Eugenin
.
–
Clove gillyflower
,
Clove pink
(Bot.)
,
any fragrant self-colored carnation.

Clove

,
Noun.
[AS.
clufe
an ear of corn, a clove of garlic; cf.
cleófan
to split, E.
cleave
.]
1.
(Bot.)
One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.
Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call
cloves
.
Lindley.
2.
A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Clove

CLOVE

, pret. of cleave.

CLOVE

,
Noun.
[See Cleave.] A cleft; a fissure; a gap; a ravine. This word, though properly an appellative, is not often used as such in English; bu it is appropriated to particular places, that are real clefts, or which appear as such; as the Clove of Kaaterskill, in the state of New York, and the Stony Clove. It is properly a Dutch word.

CLOVE

, n.
1.
A very pungent aromatic spice, the flower of the clove-tree, Caryophyllus, a native of the Molucca isles. The tree grows to the size of the laurel, and its bark resembles that of the olive. No verdure is seen under it. At the extremities of its branches are produced vast numbers of flowers, which are at first white, then green, and at last red and hard. These are called cloves.
2.
[from cleave.] The parts into which garlic separates, when the outer skin is removed.
3.
A certain weight; seven pounds of wool; eight pounds of cheese or butter.

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