True"love` (?), n. 1.
One really beloved.
2. (Bot.) A plant. See
Paris.
3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer,
meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
T. R. Lounsbury.
Under his tongue a truelove he bore.
Chaucer.
Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that
does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -
- called also true-lover's knot.
True"love` (?), n. 1.
One really beloved.
2. (Bot.) A plant. See
Paris.
3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer,
meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
T. R. Lounsbury.
Under his tongue a truelove he bore.
Chaucer.
Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that
does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -
- called also true-lover's knot.