love(1) (iou) and bloomery process (sh)

love(1) (iou)

love noun.

That state of feeling with regard to a person which manifests itself in concern for the person's welfare, pleasure in his or her presence, and often also desire for his or her approval; deep affection, strong emotional attachment. (Foll. by of, for, to, towards.) OE.
brotherly love, mother love, platonic love, romantic love, etc.
Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. Juliette Huxley I secretly adored my father and longed to be able to show him my love. B. Gilroy The grandchildren's clothes washed and ironed with love.
b. An instance of affection (now rare). Formerly also, an act of kindness. OE.
c. Affectionate greetings (freq. as a closing formula in letters). M17.
Scott Fitzgerald I'd been Writing letters..and signing them: 'Love, Nick.'
In Christian use: the benevolence and affection of God; the affectionate devotion due to God; regard and consideration prompted by a sense of a common relationship to God. OE.
Bible (AV): 1 John 4:16 God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God.
Strong predilection, liking, or fondness for, or devotion to something. Foll. by of, for, (arch.) to. OE.
C. A. Lindbergh The army Air Corps is built up of men who fly for the love of flying. E. Feinstein Marina's interest in gypsies was part of her love of everything exotic.
That feeling of attachment which is based on sexual qualities; sexual passion combined with liking and concern for the Other. OE.
Milton Haile wedded Love, mysterious Law, true sourse Of human ofspring. S. Johnson It is commonly a weak man who marries for love. K. Waterhouse Love was a taboo subject in our country.
b. An instance of being in love; in pl., amatory relations, love affairs. L16.
Swift The Colonel was cross'd in his first Love.
a. (Love.) The personification of sexual affection, usu. masculine and more or less identified with Eros, Amor, or Cupid of classic mythology. ME.
b. A cupid; a god of love; a figure or representation of a god of love. L16.
W. M. Praed Wher'er her step in Beauty moves, Around her fly a thousand loves.
A beloved person; esp. one's sweetheart. Freq. (with or without possess.) as a form of intimate or (colloq.) friendly address. ME.
C. Marlowe Liue with me and be my Loue. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Whether Bassanio had not once a love. Alan Bennett Wash your hands, love, we're all ready.
b. An illicit or clandestine lover. LME-E17.
c. gen. An object of love; a person who or thing which is loved. M18.
D. Wigoder He introduced me to one of my greatest lovesclassical Music. J. Rule You were the great love of her life.
d. A charming or delightful person or thing. colloq. E19.
J. Austen The Garden is quite a love. P. Carey Be a love and get back into your own bed.
Amorous sexual activity, sexual intercourse. Now chiefly in make love, lovemaking below. LME.
A game of chance: = MORA noun2. L16-E18.
A material worn in mourning; mourning-crape; a border of this. E17-E19.
In various Games, esp. tennis, squash, etc.: no score, nil, nothing. M18.
Phrases etc.: apple of love arch. = love-apple below. boy's-love: see BOY noun. fall in love develop a great (esp. sexual) love (mutually or with another). FIRST love. for love without stakes, for nothing; for pleasure rather than profit. for all love(s), of all love(s): expr. strong adjuration or entreaty. for the love of for the sake of; on account of; for the love of Mike: see MIKE noun2 3. free love: see FREE adjective. give one's love to (a) send one's affectionate greeting to; (b) fall or be in love with. in love (with) enamoured (of), imbued with love (for); transf. very fond (of), much addicted (to). labour of love: see LABOUR noun. light o' love: see LIGHT adjective1. love at first sight the action or state of falling in love with a person who or transf. a thing which one has not previously seen. love in a cottage arch. Marriage with insufficient means. love's young dream the relationship of young lovers; the object of someone's love; a man regarded as a perfect lover. make love (a) arch. pay amorous attention (to); (b) have sexual intercourse (foll. by to, with). no love lost between (two people etc.) (a) mutual affection; (b) mutual dislike. not for love or money not at any price, by no means. of all love(s): see for all love(s) above. out of love (with) by no means or no longer in love (with); disgusted (with). tug of love: see TUG noun1 3. tunnel of love: see TUNNEL noun 4.
Comb.: love affair (a) in pl., the experiences connected with being in love; (b) a romantic or sexual relationship between two people in love; fig. an intense enthusiasm or liking for something; love-apple arch. a tomato; love beads (a necklace of) coloured beads worn as a symbol of universal love; love-begotten adjective (arch.) (of a child) illegitimate; love-bird (a) any of various small parrots said to display remarkable affection for their mates; esp. any member of the chiefly African genus Agapornis; Austral. a budgerigar; (b) joc. & colloq. in pl., an affectionate couple, lovers; lovebite (a bruise on the skin due to) a sucking kiss; love bush W. Indies dodder; love-child an illegitimate child; love-curl a lovelock, esp. on the forehead; love-dart Zoology a calcareous dart secreted by a snail's reproductive organs which is projected into the body of the snail's partner prior to copulation; loveday a day appointed for a meeting to settle a dispute amicably; an agreement made on such a day; love-draught a philtre; love-feast among early Christians, a meal affirming brotherly love (cf. AGAPE noun); a religious service (esp. of Methodists) imitating this; love game a game in tennis etc. in which the loser fails to score a point; love handles colloq. deposits of excess fat at a person's waistline; love-hate attrib. adjective designating a relationship etc. marked by ambivalent feelings of love and hate existing towards the same object; love-in-a-mist (a) a blue-flowered Garden plant, Nigella damascena, with many delicate green bracts; (b) a W. Indian passion-flower, Passiflora foetida; love-in-idleness heartsease, Viola tricolor; love-interest a theme or episode in a story, Film, etc., of which the main element is the affection of lovers; love-juice (a) a love-potion, an aphrodisiac; (b) a sexual secretion; love-knot a knot or bow tied as a token of love; love-lay poet. a love-song; love-letter a letter written to express love; love-lies-bleeding an amaranth, Amaranthus caudatus, with drooping purple-red flowering spikes, cultivated as a Garden plant; love-life the aspect of a person's life involving Relationships with lovers; love-light radiance (of the eyes) expressing love; lovelock a curl or lock of hair worn on the temple or forehead, or (formerly) in some Other special way; lovemaking (a) arch. courtship; (b) amorous sexual activity, esp. sexual intercourse; love-match a Marriage or engagement of which the motive is love, not worldly advantage or convenience; love-mate a sweetheart, a lover; love-nest a secluded retreat for (esp. illicit or clandestine) lovers; love-object the object on which love is centred; love-pass, love-passage arch. an incident involving love; love-pat a pat expressing or motivated by love; love-play wooing, caressing; spec. foreplay; love-potion a philtre supposed to excite love; love-scene an intimate scene between lovers, esp. in a story or play; love-seat an armchair or small sofa designed for two occupants; love-song a song of (romantic) love; love-spoon a wooden spoon, sometimes with a double bowl, carved for presentation to an intended wife; love-story a story in which the main theme is the affection of lovers; love-tap a tap or gentle blow expressing or motivated by love; love-token a thing given as a sign or token of love; love-tree the Judas tree, Cercis siliquastrum; love-vine US (a) dodder; (b) = CORALLITA.
lovelike adjective (rare) (a) of a Nature appropriate to love; (b) lovely: E17.

bloomery process (sh)

Process for iron smelting.

In ancient times, smelting involved creating a bed of red-hot charcoal in a furnace to which iron ore mixed with more charcoal was added. The ore was chemically reduced (see oxidation-reduction), but, because primitive furnaces could not reach the melting temperature of iron, the product was a spongy mass of pasty globules of metal intermingled with a semiliquid slag. This hardly usable product, known as a bloom, may have weighed up to 10 lbs (5 kg). Repeated reheating and hot hammering eliminated much of the slag, creating wrought iron, a much better product. By the 15th century, many bloomeries used low shaft furnaces with waterpower to drive the bellows, and the bloom, which might weigh over 200 lbs (100 kg), was extracted through the top of the shaft. The final version of this kind of bloomery hearth survived in Spain until the 19th century. Another design, the high bloomery furnace, had a taller shaft and evolved into the Stuckofen, which produced blooms so large they had to be removed through a front opening.

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