ovate

adj

1. Shaped like an egg.

   “The Geese, Anserinæ, have the body ovate, the head small, the bill stout and somewhat conical; the legs rather long; the wings of great length and breadth.”

2. With the broadest extremity near the base.

noun

1. An egg-shaped hand axe.

   “Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.”

2. An Irish bard.
3. A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
4. A modern-day bard of a gorsedd, especially one acknowledged at an eisteddfod.

verb

1. (rare, transitive)To give someone an ovation.
2. (intransitive, rare)To applaud enthusiastically.