larve
(lɑːv)
[a. F. larve, ad. L. larva.]
1. = larva 1.
| 1603 Florio Montaigne i. xvii. (1632) 27 Larves, Hob⁓goblins, Robbin-good-fellowes, and such other Bug-beares. 1822 W. Irving Braceb. Hall (1823) I. 174 The opinions of the ancient philosophers about larves, or nocturnal phantoms. 1863 Veronia III. 147 Elementary spirits..for which a later philosophy has furnished the designation of larves. |
† 2. A mask; lit. and fig. Obs.
| a 1656 Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 423 Under this larve, this whifling suit of Toleration, there lay personated more dangerous designs. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 365 Πρόσωπον signifies..the face, that part..which was covered..with the larve or visard. |
3. = larva 2.
| 1769 Pennant Zool. III. 15 We..are uncertain whether we ever met with it [a lizard] under the form of a larve. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 353 Sometimes resembling the larves of insects. 1852 Dana Crust. ii. 1594 The animal is probably the larve of some Penæidean. |