Clove

Clove

(1): (n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.

(2): (n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

(3): (n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.

(4): (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; - rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.

(5): (imp.) Cleft.

(6): of Cleave