Lŏv'er1, n.
n. 1. One who loves; a friend.
Your brother and his lover have embraced. Shak.
Sense 2. Especially, one who is in love with a person of the opposite sex; — more commonly said of the man, but formerly of the female also.
Love is blind, and lovers can not see. Shak.
Sense 3. One who likes or is pleased; one who has a fondness or passion, as for books, science, and the like.