Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Laver \Lav"er\ (l[=a]"v[~e]r), n. [OE. lavour, F. lavoir, L.
   lavatorium a washing place. See {Lavatory}.]
   1. A vessel for washing; a large basin.

   2. (Script. Hist.)
      (a) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the
          Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed
          their hands and feet.
      (b) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which
          the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

   3. That which washes or cleanses. --J. H. Newman.

Laver \Lav"er\, n. [From {Lave} to wash.]
   One who laves; a washer. [Obs.]

Laver \La"ver\ (l[=a]"v[~e]r), n.
   The fronds of certain marine alg[ae] used as food, and for
   making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the {Ulva
   latissima}; purple laver, {Porphyra laciniata} and {P.
   vulgaris}. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with
   other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also
   {sloke}, or {sloakan}.

   {Mountain laver} (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the
      genus {Palmella}, found on the sides of mountains

Source : WordNet®

Laver
     n 1: Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to
          win the Australian and French and English and United
          States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he
          repeated this feat (born in 1938) [syn: {Rod Laver}, {Rodney
          George Laver}]
     2: (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient
        Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
     3: edible red seaweeds [syn: {red laver}]
     4: seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds [syn: {sea
        lettuce}]