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lēam (2), *lyam, s. [A corrupt. of Fr. lien-a cord or string, from Lat. ligamen, from ligo=to bind, to tie.] A cord, string, or strap by which dogs are led.

"The lion toke acquaintance of him, and euer after followed hym, beynge ladde in a small lyam.”—Sir T. Elyot: Governor, bk. íi., ch. xiii.

leam -er, s. [Eng. leam (2); -er.] A dog led by a string, cord, or strap.

*léan (1), v. t. [LEAN, a.] To make lean or thin. (Adums: Works, i. 481.)

lean (2), lene, v. i. & t. [A. S. hlánan=to make to lean; hleonian, hlinian to lean; cogn. with O. 8. hlinon; Dut. lennen; Dan. læni; Sw. läna; O. H. Ger. lainan to make to lean: hlinen to lean; M. H. Ger. lenen; Ger, lehnen to lean; Lat. *clino to make to lean, to incline; Gr. klinō.] A. Intransitive:

1. To incline against; to rest against; to depend on for support; to be supported by anything.

"Set me that I maye touche the pillers that the house stand vpon, and that I may leane to them."-Judges xvi. (1551.)

2. To deviate from a straight, direct, or perpendicular line or direction; to incline; as, A tower leans to the east or the west, &c.

3. To bend; to be in a bending or indirect position or posture; to stoop.

"Leaning long upon any part maketh it mumme, and, as we call it, asleep."-Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 735.

4. To depend, as for support; to trust; to look for aid or support.

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not

unto thine own understanding."-Prov. iii. 5.

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1. To incline; to cause to lean; to rest.

"The little shepherd in his white capote
Doth lean his boyish form along the rock."
Byron: Childe Harold, ii. 52.

2. To support, to rest. "Whereon the queen her weak estate might lean." Drayton: Barons' Wars, iii. *lēan (3), v. t. [Lat. leyna.] To conceal, to hide. lean, *lene, a. & s. [A. S. hlæne, probably connected with tean (2), v.]

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"The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, ii. 3.

(2) Barren of thought, jejune, dry.

"Fat paunches have lean pates."

Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, i. 1.

(3) Poor, insignificant. "Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something: my having is not much." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, iii. 4. II. Print.: A term applied to work which is not remunerative.

B. As substantive:

I. Ord. Lang.: That part of flesh which consists of muscle without fat.

II. Print.: Work which is not remunerative. lean-face, subst. Type with unusually thin face

lines.

lean-faced, a.

1. Ord. Lang.: Having a thin, lean face.

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leap'-lig, pr. par., a. & s. [LEAP, v.]

A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (Gee the verb.)

C. As subst. The act of jumping or bounding; a leap, a bound.

leaping-ague, 8.

morbid propensity to running, leaping, tumbling, Path.: A variety of chorea, characterized by a and dancing. Cases have been described from Scotland. (Cycl. Pract. Med., i. 215.) leaping-fish, s.

1. Lit. The quality or state of being lean; thin da. Habitat, East Indian Archipelago. Color, dark ness; want of flesh or plumpness.

2. Fig.: Poverty, poorness, emptiness. *loan-y, a. [Eng. lean; -y.] Lean, thin. pa. par. gehleápen); cogn. with O. Sax. hlópan to leap, *lepe, v. i. & t. [A. S. hleápan (pa. t. hleóp, run; O. Fris. hlapa: Dut. loopen; Icel. hlaupa; Dan. lobe; Sw. löpa; Goth. hlaupan: O. H. Ger. hlaufan, M. H. Ger. loufen; Gor. laufen.] A. Intransitive:

1. To jump, to spring, to bound, to vault; to move with springs or bounds.

"Leaping ever from rock to rock." Longfellow: Building of the Ship. 2. To bound: as, One's heart leaps for joy. 3. To rush, to start, to fly, to dart. B. Transitive:

of.

ing; to spring or jump from one side to the other 1. To jump or spring over; to pass over by leap. 2. To cause to jump or spring over; to make to take a leap over.

3. To cover; to copulate with.
"Whether the bull or courser be thy care,

Let him not leap the cow, nor mount the mare." Dryden: Virgil; Georgic iii. 328. lēap (1), *leape, s. [A. S. hlýp; cogn. with Icel. hlaup a leap; Ger. lauf-a course.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. Literally:

(1) The act of leaping or jumping; a jump, a spring, a bound.

(2) The space passed over or cleared by leaping. *(3) The act of copulating; copulation. 2. Figuratively:

(1) A sudden transition or change.

(2) A risky or hazardous step or action; as, to take a leap in the dark.

II. Technically:

1. Mining: The shifting of a vein; a fault. 2. Music: A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by includ ing several other and intermediate intervals.

leap-frog, s. A game among boys, in which one stoops down, while another, placing his hands upon the back of the first, vaults over him.

leap-year, *lepe-yeer, 8. Bissextile; a year which leaps over, as it were, one day more than an ordinary year; a year which contains 366 days, as distinguished from an ordinary year, which includes only 335 days. Every year, the number of which is divisible by four is a leap year, except when it happens to be any number of hundreds not divisible by four. Thus, 1884 is a leap-year, but not 1900, this omission of one leap-year in every four centuries being necessary to correct the error which arises from the excess of the addition of one day in four years (i. e. six hours) to the year over the true length of the year, i. e. 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes. "Divide by four; what's left shall be For leap-year 0; for past 1, 2, 8."

*lēap (2), *lepe, *leep, s. [A. S. leap.]

1. A basket, a hamper.

Harris.

"Thei token up that, that lefte of relifs sevene leepis." -Wycliffe: Mark, viii.

2. A wicker fish-net; an osier creel or trap for

2. Print.: Applied to type with unusually thin fish.

face-lines.

lean-to, a. & 8.

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"The fishers lay their leapes in the deepe." Breton: Fantastickes; October. leap-er, s. [Eng. leap; -er.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. One who or that which leaps.

2. A hollow cylinder with a hook at one end, employed in untwisting old ropes.

II. Zool. (pl.): The orthopterous tribe Saltatoria, so called from the adaptation of the hinder legs to the purpose of leaping. It comprises the families

Gryllidae, Locustida, and Acridiida.

*leap-fúl, *lep-full, s. [English leap (2). s.; ful). As much as will fill a leap or basket; a basketful.

chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

Ichthy. Salarias tridactylus, one of the Blenniibrown. It possesses the power of leaping out of the water, darting over the wet stones and rocks, and snapping up flies. By means of its ventral and pectoral fins, it can scramble up a nearly perpenattempt to capture it. Known also as tho Jumperdicular face of rock, and makes for the sea on any fish. (Wood.)

*leaping-house, s. A brothel. (Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., i. 2.)

*leaping-time, s. Youth.

leap-ing-ly, adv. [Eng. leaping; -ly.] In a leaping manner; with leaps or bounds.

lear (1), subst. [LARE, LORE.] Learning, lore. (Scotch.)

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*lëar, *lere, v. t. [LEAR (1), s.] To learn.

learn, lerne, v. t. & i. [A. S. leornian to learn; cogn. with O. S. linón; O. H. Ger. lirnan; German lernen; A. S. læran to teach; Icel. læra; Dutch' leeren; Sw. lära; Dan. lære; Ger. lehren.] A. Transitive:

1. To gain or acquire knowledge, skill, or infor mation concerning.

"Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield." Pope: Essay on Man, iii. 173. 2. To find out; to ascertain by inquiry.

"Let's go learn the truth of it."

Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, i. 2. 3. To communicate knowledge to; to teach, to instruct, to inform.

"Your fly will learn you all games."
Ben Jonson: Alchemist, v. 2.

*4. To communicate, to tell.

"Learn me the proclamation."

Shakesp.: Troilus and Cressida, ii. 1 B. Intrans.: To gain or acquire knowledge, skill, or information; to receive instruction. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart."-Matthew xi. 29.

learn-a-ble, a. [Eng. learn; -able.] Capable of being learned; that may or can bǝ learned. "When the lesson comes I suppose it will come in some learnable shape."—Kingsley: Two Years Ago, ch. xviii.

learn-ěd, learned, learnt, pa. par. & adj. [LEARN.]

A. As pa. par. (of both forms): (See the verb.) B. As adj. (of the form learn ́-ĕd):

1. Having gained or acquired knowledge of or skill in anything by study; skilled or versed in science, literature, &c.; well-informed.

"The industry of that learned lady."-Pope: Homer's Odyssey. (Postscript.)

2. Skilled; skillful or knowing (followed by in); as, learned in the law. 3. Containing or characterized by learning; as, a learned treatise.

4. Acquired by study.

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head."
Pope: Essay on Criticism, iii. 53.

5. Wise, prudent. *learn-ed-ish, a. [Eng. learned; -ish.] Somewhat learned.

"And seem more learnedish than those That in a greater charge compose." Butler: Miscellaneous Thoughts. learn -ěd-ly, adv. [Eng. learned; ly.] In a learned manner; like a learned person; with learning, knowledge, or erudition.

"And she is prating learnedly
Of logic and of chemistry.'

Praed: County Ball. learn -ěd-ness, s. [Eng. learned; -ness.] The quality or state of being learned; learning, erudition.

sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = £. -sions = shus. -ble, -dle, &c.

learner

learn-er, s. [English learn: er.] One who is taught, or is under instruction; a pupil, a scholar. "Men that, if now alive, would sit content And humble learners of a Savior's worth." Cowper: Task, ii. 542.

learn -ing, *lern-yng, pr. par., a. & 8. [LEARN.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.)

C. As substantive:

1. The act, state, or process of seeking for or gain ing knowledge, skill, or information by study.

2. Knowledge or skill in any branch of science or literature acquired by study; erudition.

"Concerning the excellency of learning and knowl. edge."-Bacon: Advancement of Learning, i. 3. 3. Skill in anything good or bad. lear-y, s. [Eng. lear, a.; -y.]

1. Mining: An empty place; an old working. 2. Fearful, cautious. (Slang.)

leas-a-ble, a. [Eng. leas(e); -able.] That may or can be leased.

lease (1), s. [LEASE (1), v.] I. Literally:

1. A demise, conveyance, or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments for a term of years, at a certain specified rent or payment.

"A lease is a conveyance of lands or tenements, usually in consideration of rent, for life, for years, or at will, but Always for a less time than the lessor has in the premises; for if it be for the whole interest, it is more properly an assignment than a lease."-Blackstone: Comment., bk. ii.,

ch. 17.

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Weaving: A slat laid transversely across and between the two bands of the warp.

lease (1), v. t. [Fr. laisser to leave, to relinquish; O. Fr. lesser, from Lat. laxo-to slacken, to let go, from laxus-loose, slack, lax.]

1. To demise, convey, or let lands or tenements to another for a term of years, or at will, for a certain specified rent or payment; to let under a lease. 2. To hold or occupy under a lease.

lease (2), *les-en, v. i. [A. S. lesan to gather; cogu. with Dut, lezen to gather; Ger. lesen; Goth. lisan.] To glean; to gather grain left by the har

vestmen.

"[I] told the witch Agreo my diseaseAgreo that in harvest us'd to lease." Dryden: Theocritus; Idyl. iii lease -hōld, a. & s. [Eng. lease, and hold.] A. As adj.: Held under or by a lease.

B. As subst.: A tenure by lease; that which is held under or by a lease.

lease -hōld-er, s. [Eng. lease, and holder.] One who holds lands, tenements, &c., under or by a lease.

*lease-mon-ger, s. [Eng. lease, and monger.]

One who deals in leases.

*lēaş'-er (1), s. [English leas(e) (2), v.; -er.] A gleaner.

*lēaş-er (2), s. [A. S. leás=false; Dut. loos; Goth. laus.] A liar. [LEASING.]

leash, lease, leese, *leece, s. [0. Fr. lesse; Fr. laisse, from Low Lat. laxa, fem. of laxus-lax, loose; Ital. lascio.]

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3. In sporting, a brace and a half; three creatures of any kind; hence, generally three in number of anything.

"I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers, and can call them all by their christian names."-Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., ii. 4.

4. A band with which anything is tied or fastened. "The ravished soul being shewn such game, would break those leashes that tie her to the door."-Boyle. through which a thread of the warp is passed, the II. Weaving: A thread having at one end a loop

other end being fastened to a rod or lever, to which all the other leashes of the same set are also at tached; a heddle.

leash, v. t. [LEASH, 8.] To bind; to hold or fasten by a string.

Crouch."

"At his heels, Leasht in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Shakesp.: Henry V. (Prol.) *lēaş -ing, *les-inge, *les-ynge, s. [A. S. leásing, leásung, from leás=false; Icel. lausung.] A lie, a falsehood.

"Have almost stamped the leasing."
Shakesp.: Coriolanus, v. 2.

leasing-making, s. imprisonment, consisting in slanderous and untrue Scots Law: A crime, punishable by fine and the king, his council, and proceedings, or to the speeches to the disdain, reproach, or contempt of dishonor, hurt, and prejudice of his highness, his parents and progenitors. Called also verbal sedi

tion.

*leasing-monger, s. A liar.

leather-yellow

leather-buffing machine, s. A machine in which the surface of leather is reduced to a smooth but not polished surface, the face being left with a slight nap, like buff leather. leather-carp, s.

Ichthy.: (See extract.)

"Like other domesticated animals the carp is subject to variation. Some individuals have lost every trace of scales, and are called leather-carps."Günther: Study of Fishes, p. 591. leather-cloth, s.

Fabric: A fabric covered with a waterproof composition, usually having a polished surface. It generally consists of a paint or a varnish, sometimes the former with a covering coat of the latter. The changes in menstruums, resins, pigments, and coarse and cheap materials, which are added for quantity, are so various that room cannot be afforded for stating them at length. leather-coat, s. tough coat or skin.

An apple or potato with a

leather-corrugating machine, s. A machine in which leather is crimped, corrugated, or fluted for certain purposes in manufactures. It is usually done by passing leather between a fluted and a plain roller, and drying while the indentations are while damp, between plates or dies of the requisite preserved; or it may be done by passing the leather, form.

leather-creasing machine, s. A machine for ornamenting the edges of leather straps by passing between rollers indented with the required patterns in intaglio and cameo.

instance.

leather-cutting machine, s. A machine for *lĕaş -ōw, *lĕaş -ōwe, subst. [A. S. læswe.] A cutting leather into shapes for shoe-stock or other meadow, a pasture, shaded with trees. purposes; sole-leather into soles and heels, for leather-dicing, 8. [LEATHER-DRESSING.] leather-dresser, s. One whose occupation is to dress leather or hides.

least,*laste, *leste, *lest, a. & adv. [A. S. læsast, læsest, læst, superlative of lossa (a.), læs (adv.)= less (q. v.).]

A. As adj.: The smallest; that which is less than all others in size, amount, degree, quantity, value, importance, &c.

B. As adv.: In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree less than all others.

At least, at the least: At or in the lowest degree; without saying more; at all events; at any

rate.

least pocket-mouse, s.

Zool.: Cricetodipus parvus. least spotted-woodpecker, s. TED-WOODPECKER.]

least-stitchwort, s.

Bot.: Monchia erecta.

least willow-wren, s.

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Bot.: (1) Clematis viorna; (2) Byrsanthes. leather-gouge, s.

Saddlery: A tool used to cut channels in leather for receiving the thread of a line of stitches.

leather-grinder, s. A machine for reducing scraps of leather to shreds, in order that the material may be made into washers, insoles, and heels for shoes.

leather-head, s. [FRIAR-BIRD.]

leather-jack, s. A jug or bottle made of leather;

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*least, conj. [LEST.] *lēaş -, *leas-ie, a. [Prob. from A. S. leás loose, false.] Deceptive, fallacious, uncertain, vague, loose.

lēat, s. [A. S. lædan to lead.] An artificial watercourse; a mill-race.

leather, *leth-er, s. & a. [A. S. ledher; cogn. with Dut. leder; Ital. ledhr; Dan. læder; Sw. läder; Ger. leder; Wel. llethr.]

A. As substantive:

1. The tanned or tawed skin or hide of an animal. The varieties of tanned leather are classed as hides, kips, and skins.

2. Dressed hides collectively.

*3. The skin: used in contempt or ironically. B. As adj.: Made of leather; leathern. leather-awl, s.

1. A shoemaker's piercing-tool for stitching or lasting. [AWL.]

2. A tool for lacing belts. It has a broad point which fades away into two cutting edges on a conical scoop-shaped blade, which makes a clean, circular cut of the desired size; an eye-point to carry the lacing through.

leather-back, s.

cluded in the genus Sphargis, on account of the roar Zool.: Sphargis coriacea, a species of turtle ining noise it sometimes makes. The carapace is covered with a dense, coriaceous skin. They grow to a great size. Habitat, the Atlantic and the Med1. A leathern thong, by which a hawk was held on iterranean, and the temperate zones of all great the falconer's wrist. oceans. Individuals have been found from six to eight feet in length.

I. Ordinary Language:

"A merlin sat upon her wrist,

Held by a leash of silken twist."
Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel, vi. 5.

2. A leathern thong, to hold dogs in couples in coursing.

"Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, i. 6.

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll,

Leather-back turtles:

Zool. The genus Sphargis. leather-board, s.

Leather: A composition of leather scraps and paper material ground together and rolled out into sheets.

leather-jacket, s.

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which a fancy surface is given to dressed leather, leather-pebbling machine, s. resembling morocco, levant, hog-skin, or other fancy style. The leather is passed upon a bed beneath a roller having the desired pattern. The pattern is given by soft metal, which has been cast upon an original surface of the required character, or the pattern of the roller is obtained by taking an electrotype copy of some selected piece of leather and transferring to the roller. leather-plant, s.

Bot.: The New Zealand name for Celmisia. leather-punch, s. A hand-tool for making holes in leather for the insertion of eyelets or lacing. compress and harden leather, instead of hammer leather-rolling machine, s. A machine to ing it.

leather-seller, s. One who deals in leather. leather-stuffer, s. A machine or a revolving stuffed with dubbing to make them soft and chamber in which hides are made supple and pliable. It is the equivalent of the breakingmachine, which is used to break dried hides before tanning.

leather-winged, a. Having membranous wings, somewhat resembling leather, as a bat. leather-wood, s.

Botany:

1. [DIRCA.]

2. Ceratopetalum, a genus of Australian Canoniacea.

father; wē, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre;

leather-yellow, a. & s. Whitish-yellow.
pine, pit, sïre, sir, marîne; gō, pŏt,

leather

leather, v. t. [LEATHER, 8.]

1. To furnish or supply with leather.

2. To thrash, as with a thong of leather. (Vul gar.)

leath-er-ĕtte', s. [Eng. leather; dimin. suff. -ette.] A kind of imitation leather used in bookbinding.

leathern, *leth-er-en, a. [Eng. leather; suff. en.] Made of or consisting of leather; covered with leather.

leather-y, a. [Eng. leather; -y.]

1. Ordinary Lang.: Pertaining to or resembling leather; like leather; tough.

2. Bot. Having the consistence of leather. The same as CORIACEOUS.

leathery-turtle, s.

Zool.: Sphargis coriacea. [LEATHER-BACK.] leave, leve, s. [A. S. leáf=permission, closely connected with léof acceptable, pleasing [LIEF]; cogn, with Dut. lof=permission, in oor-lof, ver-lof; Icel. leyfi leave; leyfa to permit; lofan-permis. sion; Dau. lov praise, leave; Sw. lof=praise, leave; Ger. ur-laub leave, furlough; ver-laub leave, permission.] 1. Liberty or permission granted; allowance, license.

"He hath wrung from me my slow leave." Shakesp.: Hamlet, i. 2. 2. The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting from friends; a farewell, an adieu. (Genally in the phrase, to take leave.)

"One carried a letter commanding Manchester to quit France without taking leave."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxv.

leave-taking, s. The act of taking leave of or bidding farewell to friends.

leave (1), *leve, *leeve (pa. t. *lafte, *lefte, left; pa. par. *laft, left), v. t. & i. [A. S. læfan to leave a heritage; from láƒ=a heritage, a remainder; from Lifan to be remaining, to live (q. v.); Icel. leifa= to leave; leif a heritage; M. H. Ger. leiben-to leave; from M. H. Ger. leibe; O. H. Ger. leipa that which remains; Ger. bleiben to remain, to be left.] A. Transitive:

1. To give by will; to bequeath; to give as a legacy.

"Peace I lere with you, my pees I geue unto you."John xiv. (1551)

2. To forsake, to desert, to abandon, to give up, to relinquish, to renounce.

"We have left all, and have followed thee."-Mark x. 28. 3. To withdraw from; to quit; to come or go away from.

"Of all the carrion-feeders it is generally the last which leaves the skeleton of a dead animal."-Darwin: Voyage round the World (1870), p. 57.

4. To cease or desist from; to forbear. "Let us return, lest my father leave caring for the esses, and take thought for us."-1 Samuel ix. 5.

5. To suffer to remain in the same state. "It prefers itself, and leaves unquestioned Matters of needful value."

Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, i. 1.

6. Not to touch, take, or remove; to spare; to

suffer to remain.

"They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, and left no sustenance for Israel."Judges vi. 4.

7. To reject; not to choose; to pass over or by.
8. To come away from and suffer to lie,

"Leaving their noblest in their gore."
Scott: Lord of the Isles, vi. 29.

9. To have remaining at death. "There be of them that have left a name behind them." -Ecclus. xliv. 8.

10. To commit or intrust as a charge or deposit; as, to leave a house in charge of a servant.

11. To refer for decision; as, to leave a question to an arbitrator.

12. To permit or allow to the discretion of. "Circumstances which the historian discreetly leaves to the imagination of his readers."-Eustace: Italy, vol. 1, ch. vii.

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(c) To renounce or give up familiarity with.

(2) Intrans.: To cease, to desist.

lecidinei

lě-căn-ở-măn-çỹ, s. [Gr. lekanē=a bowl, and manteia prophecy, divination.] A mode of divina

2. To leave alone: To let alone; not to dispute or tion by throwing three pieces of stone into a bowl interfere with.

"The fools are mad if left alone."

Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1. 3. To leave out: To omit; not to insert or include. "Each hath his place; I am left out." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., i. 1. [Fr. lever to raise.] To raise,

*leave (2), v. t.

to levy.

leave (3), v. i. [LEAF.] To send out or produce leaves or foliage.

leaved, a. [Eng. leaf (pl. leaves); -ed.]

1. Covered or furnished with leaves or foliage. 2. Made with leaves or folds.

"I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates."-Isaiah xlv. 1.

*leave -less (1), a. [Eng. leave, s.; -less.] Without leave or permission. *lēave-less (2), a. [Eng. leaf (pl. leaves); -less.] Without leaves or foliage; leafless.

to [Fr. levain,

from Lat. levamen = that which raises: levo
leav-en, *lev-ain, *lev-ein, s.
raise.]

1. Lit.: A substance used or intended to produce fermentation, as in dough; specifically, a portion of sour dough, which, being mixed with a larger quantity of other dough, causes fermentation, and makes it lighter; yeast, barm.

"For ye shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering of the Lord made by fire."-Leviticus ii. 11. 2. Fig.: Any mixture which causes or tends to cause a general change in the mass. It generally means something which depraves or corrupts that with which it is mixed.

"Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees

and of the Sadducees."-Matthew xvi. 6. lĕav-en, v. t. [LEAVEN, 8.]

1. Lit. To cause or produce fermentation in; to raise and make light, as dough.

2. Fig.: To taint, to corrupt, to deprave, to imbue. "That cruel something, unpossest, Corrodes and leavens all the rest." Prior: The Ladle. leavened, a. [Eng. leaven; -ed.] 1. Lit.: Fermented.

*2. Fig.: Ripened, matured.

"We have, with a leavened and prepared choice,
Proceeded to you."

Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, i. 1. leav'-en-lig, pr. par., a. & 8. [LEAVEN, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.)

C. As substantive:

[Eng. leaven;

1. The act of fermenting with leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. lĕav-en-oùs, *lev-en-ous, a. -ous.] Containing leaven; tainted. leaver, s. [Eng. leave (1), v.; -er.] One who leaves, forsakes, or relinquishes. leaves, s. pl. [LEAF, 8.]

*leav-I-ness, s. [English leavy; -ness.] The quality or state of being leavy or leafy.

lēav'-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [LEAVE (1), v.]

A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.)

C. As substantive:

1. The act of forsaking, relinquishing, quitting, or giving up.

2. (PI): That which is left; residue, remnant. 3. (Pl.): Refuse, offal.

leaving-book, s. A book presented to a boy by his schoolfellows on his leaving, in accordance with a custom in vogue in many English public schools. leaving-shop, s. An unlicensed pawn-shop. (English Slang.)

*leavy, a., [Eng. leaf (pl. leaves); -y.] Full of or covered with leaves or foliage.

*leb-arde, s. [LEOPARD.] lěb-ě-di-er-op-sis, s. [Gr. lebēs a kettle or caldron, an urn; diërës=double, and opsis look, appearance.]

Bot.: A genus of Euphorbiace. The wood of Lebedieropsis orbicularis, a tree found in the forests of India, is useful for turning.

leb 1-1'-næ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lebi(a); lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -inc.]

Entom.: A sub-family of Carabidae. The species are very numerous in tropical America.

or basin, and invoking the aid of a demon. lec-a-nör-a, s. [From Gr. lekane a dish, pot, or pan, from the form of the shields.]

1. Bot.: A genus of gymnocarpous lichens, family Parmelidæ, or of the tribe Lecidines. It is akin to Lecidea, except that the epithecium has a thickish border formed of the crust and of the same color with it. Lecanora perella, L. tartarea (Cudbear), L. hæmatomma, and L. atra are used for dyeing. L. esculenta and L. affinis are found in Armenia, Algeria, &c., and are blown about by the wind. The natives eat them in times of scarcity, and believe them to have been the manna of the Israelites.

2. Chem.: The ethereal extract of Lecanora atra, collected in the neighborhood of Palermo, Sicily. It is a mixture of two acids, which can be easily separated by means of chloroform; one (atranoric acid) is colorless, and very slightly soluble in chlo roform; the other, which closely resemble susnic acid, is yellow, and very soluble in chloroform.

Derived from or in any way connected with the lec-a-nör -Ic, a. [Eng., &c., lecanor (a); -ic.] genus Lecanora (q. v.).

lecanoric-acid, s.

orsellinic acid, discovered by Schunck in 1842, in Chem.: C16H1O-H2O. An ethereal anhydride of several of the lichens belonging to the genera Lecanora, Rocella, and Variolaria, from which it can be extracted by ether. It crystallizes in colorless stellate needles, slightly soluble in water and cold alcohol, moderately soluble in boiling alcohol, but very soluble in ether, in acetic acid, and in am monia. It melts at 153° to a colorless liquid, which soon decomposes with evolution of carbon diox ide. On boiling with water it splits into two mole cules of orsellinic acid. The lecanorates are very unstable, decomposing, especially when heated, into orsellinic acid and orcin.

lěc-a-nör -in, s. [Eng., &c., lecanor(a); suff. -in.] [LECANORIC-ACID.]

*lěch, v. t. [Fr. lécher.] To lick.

*lēçhe' (1), s. [LEECH, S.]

lē-çhë' (2), s. [Native name.]

Zool.: Onotragus leche, from South Africa. It is a water antelope, frequenting damp, marshy places, and taking to impassable swamps. It goes in considerable herds, and may be known by the peculiar way in which it allows its horns to recline, almost touching the withers.

*lēçhe, v. t. [LEECH, v.]

*lēçhe-craft, 8. [LEECHCRAFT.]

lěch -er, *lech-our, *lech-ur, s. [Fr. lecheor, lescheur, lecheur-one who licks up, from lécher=to lick (q. v.). One addicted to lewdness; one inordinately given to the indulgence of his animal passions.

lěch-ěr, v. i. [LECHER, 8.] To practice or give one's self up to lewdness.

lěch -ĕr-oŭs, *lech-er-ouse, *lich-er-ous, a. [Eng. lecher; -ous.]

1. Addicted to lechery or lewdness; lewd. 2. Exciting or provoking to lewdness or lust. lěch -ĕr-ous-ly, adv. [Eng. lecherous; -ly.] In a lecherous, lewd, or lustful manner; profligately. lěch -ĕr-oŭs-ness, s. [English lecherous; -ness.] The quality or state of being lecherous; lechery, lewdness.

lěch -ĕr-, *lec-cher-ie, *lech-er-ie, s. [Eng. lecher: -y.]

1. Lewdness, lust.

*2. Pleasure, delight.

lĕ-çid -ě-a, s. [Gr. lekos a dish, a plate, a pot, a pan, and eidos=form.]

Bot.: The typical genus of the Lecidinei. The apothecia have a border colored like the disk. It is very extensive, and is found in a great variety of situations, and at every season of the year. Lecidea geographica is sometimes sulphur-yellow and sometimes yellowish-green. If a yellow specimen be suspended over a solution of carbonate of am monia, it becomes covered with carmine-red glob ules, gradually loses its usnic acid, and then becomes grayish-white.

lĕç-1-dē -1-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lecide (i); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.].

Bot. According to Lindley, a family of lichens, tribe Hymenothalame. Now made a tribe, Leci dinei (q. v.).

lĕç-1-din -ĕ-i, lĕç-I-dîn ́-ě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lecid (ea); Lat. masc. pl. adj. suff. -inei, or fem. ineœ.]

lě-cā -ni-ŭm, s. [Gr. lekane a dish.] Entom.: A genus of homopterous insects, tribe Coccina. Lecanium ilicis, found in the south of Europe on Quercus ilex, was used by the ancients as a dye. L. hesperidum is parasitic on the orange. sin, gem; thin, this; aş; expect, shus. -sious zhun. -tious, -cious,

Xenophon, exist. ph = f. &c. = -ble, -dle, bel, del.

lecithin

Bot.: A tribe of gymnocarpous, or open-fruited lichens, having free, circular, ultimately convex shields with open discs, and placed in a special excipulum.

le-çi-thin, s. [Gr. lekithos=the yelk of an egg; suff. -in (Chem.).]

Chem.: This name is applied to several phosphoretted fatty bodies, of very similar chemical and physical properties, derived from brain substance, nerves, blood, gall, the yelk of eggs, &c., and also from some vegetable substances (maize, &c.), and which appear as constant constituents of the cell substance of organized bodies. It is a viscous body, insoluble in water, slightly soluble in cold alcohol, but very soluble in boiling alcohol and in ether. From its saturated solution in alcohol, it crystallizes in radially-grouped needles, which dry up in vacuo to a white powder. It may also be crystallized from glacial acetic acid. Every lecithin is a fat containing only two fatty acid radicals, the third hydroxyl group being replaced by ethylen-trimethyl ammonic hydrate (neurine) in combination with phosphoric acid.

lě-cont-ite, s. [Named after Dr. J. L. Le Conte; suff. ile (Min.).J

Min.: An orthorhombic mineral, found in prismatic crystals in a black mass consisting of the excrement of bats, in the cave of Las Piedras, Comayagua, Central America. Luster vitreous; colorless, and transparent; taste, saline and bitter. Composition: A hydrated sulphate of ammonia, soda, and potash.

lěc -tern, let-tern, lěc -turn, *lec-torne, *lectrone, *lectrun, leterone, s. [Low Lat. lectri num=a reading-desk, a pulpit, from lectrum=a pulpit; Gr.lektron a couch, a rest for a book; Fr. lutrin.] A choir-desk from which the antiphons and lessons were read. Also the stand from which the gospel was sung. They were sometimes constructed of wood, but frequently of brass, in the form of an eagle with outspread wings.

lec-ti-ca, s. [Lat.]

Roman Antiquities: A kind of litter or palanquin, borne by horses or slaves, and used for transporting females, sick persons, and ultimately the luxurious rich, from place to place. They were provided with cushions, canopies, and curtains.

lěc -tion, s. [Lat. lectionem, accus. of lectio=a reading, from lectus, pa. par. of lego-to gather, to read.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. The act of reading.

2. A difference or variety in copies of a book or manuscript; a various reading.

II. Ch. Hist.: A term applied in the Early Church to portions of Scripture read in the public services, but now almost entirely confined to the passages from the inspired writings, the Acts of the Martyrs or Lives of the Saints, and homilies by Fathers and Doctors of the Church, which are read in the Roman office of matins (q. v.).

lec -tion-ar-y, 8. [Eng. lection; -ary.] Church Hist., Eccles., &c.: A book containing passages of Holy Scripture to be read in the public service of the Church.

1. Roman: The oldest known Latin lectionary is that commonly attributed to St. Jerome, and known as the Comes, distinguished as major, if it contained the Gospels and Epistles for the year; as minor if only the beginnings and endings. It is undoubtedly of early date, but the question of authorship cannot be decided. The lectionary found by Dom Mabillon in the convent of Luxueil is interesting as showing that, according to ancient Gallican use, three lessons were road at mass.

2. Anglican: In the article, "Concerning the Service of the Church," in the Episcopal Prayer Book, general rules are laid down as to the reading of Scripture in Divine Service; the system of Daily and Proper Lessons was established in 1559; the tables were drawn up in 1599, and in 1661 the lectionary was settled in the form it kept for two centuries.

*lěc-ti-ster -ni-um, s. [Latin, from lectus-a couch, and sterno to strew, to spread out.]

Class. Myth.: A sacrifice of the nature of a feast offered to the gods, an evident survival of the idea common in early stages of religious development that divinities actually partook of the offerings prosented to them. (See the apocryphal story of Bel and the Dragon.) On occasions of extraordinary solemnity, or in times of public calamity, the Greeks and Romans placed tables with food before images of the gods reclining on couches. According to Livy (v. 13), the first Roman lectisternium took place A. U. C. 354, when a terrible plague affected the cattle. These sacrificial feasts were of two kinds-ordinary, occurring almost daily (Liv. xlii. 30); and extraordinary, occurring at intervals, and lasting from three to eight days, or even for a longer period (Liv. xii. 10).

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll,

lec-tor, s. [Lat.]

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1. To instruct by lectures; to deliver lectures to. "To be conscious, while he is lecturing his students, that he is either speaking or reading nonsense."-Smith: Wealth of Nations, bk. v., ch. i.

2. To reprimand; to reprove as a superior. "By this privileged body the great mass of the popula tion is lectured every week from the chair of authority."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xi.

3. To induce or influence into doing anything by a lecture.

lěc -tu-rer, s. [Eng. lectur(e); -er.] One who delivers lectures or formal discourses on any subject; especially one who instructs by means of lectures.

lěc -ture-ship, s. [Eng. lecture; -ship.] The post or office of a lecturer.

*lěc -tur-ĕss, s. [Eng. lectur(e);-ess.] A female lecturer; a woman who delivers lectures. *lec-tur-ize, v. i. [Eng. lectur(e); -ize.] To deliver lectures, to preach.

lē-çyth-I-dā -çe-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. lecythis genit. lecythid (is); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot.: Lecyths. An order of epigynous exogens, alliance Myrtales. It consists of large trees, with alternate entire or toothed undotted leaves, and minute deciduous stipules. The flowers are large, showy, terminal, solitary, or racemose; calyx superior; two to six-leaved; corolla of six petals, sometimes cohering at the base; stamens indefinite epig ynous, part formed into a unilateral mass; often without anthers; ovary inferior, from two to sixcelled; fruit a woody capsule; seeds several. They are natives of Guiana and other hot parts of South America. Genera seven; known species thirtyeight.

lē -ç-this, s. [Gr. lekuthos=an oil-flask.]

Bot. The typical genus of the order Lecythidaceae (q.v.). Calyx six-lobed; petals six, with sterile stamens attached to a hood-like body. Thirty or forty species are known, mostly giant trees from Brazil, Venezuela, and Guiana. The great woody pericarps of the several species are used as drinking vessels. The seeds are large and eatable, but leave an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Lecythis ollaris, the Sapucaya, is the largest tree in the Brazilian forests. The bark is cut by the Indians into pieces, and used as wrapping for their cigars. A milky emulsion, prepared from the seeds of L. grandiflora, another Brazilian species, is prescribed for catarrhs.

le-çyths, s. pl. [LECYTHIS.]

Bot. The name given by Lindley to the order Lecythidacea (q. v.).

lěd, pret. & pa. par. of v. & a. [LEAD (2), v.] A. As pret. & pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective:

1. Guided, conducted, drawn.

2. A term applied to a farm, estate, &c., not occupied by the owner or tenant, also to a district ruled by a deputy. (Eng.)

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Lē da, s. [Gr.]

of Etolia, and wife of Tyndarus, King of Sparta, 1. Class. Antiq.: The daughter of Thestius, King By Jupiter she became the mother of Pollux and

Castor, Helen and Clytemnestra.

2. Astron.: [ASTEROID, 38.]

3. Zool.: A genus of mollusks, family Arcade. Eighty recent species are known, the genus being widely diffused, and 190 fossil species.

*ledde, pret. & pa. par. of v. [LEAD, v.]

*lěd -dẹn, *led-en, s. [A. S. leden, lyden-language; a corruption of Latin.] Language, talk, dialect.

lěd -diě, s. [LADY.] (Scotch.) *lēde, v. t. [LEAD.]

lěd-ě-bôu-ri-a, s. [Named after M. Ledebour, a botanical author.]

Bot.: A genus of Liliacem, tribe Scillem. The bulbs of Ledebouria hyacinthoides are used in the East Indies as a substitute for squills.

*lěd -en, s. [LEDDEN.]

led-er-er-ite, s. [Named after Baron Lederer, by Jackson; suff. ite (Min.)]

Min.: An impure gmelinite (q. v.), with some free silica.

lěd -ĕr-ite, s. [Named after Baron Lederer, by Shepard.]

Min.: A variety of sphene (q. v.), found in very in Canada. Cleavage distinct. large brown crystals in northern New York and

ledge, s. [A word of Scandinavian origin; cf. Sw. lagg=the rim of a cask; lcel. lögg; Norweg. long (pl. legger)=the lowest part of a vessel; from liggja; Dan. ligge; A. S. licgan=to lie.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. A shelf on which articles can be placed. 2. A row, a layer, a stratum.

"The lowest ledge or row should be merely of stone, closely laid, without mortar."-Wotton: Archit., p. 18.

ing above the rest; especially a ridge or prominence 3. Any prominence or rising part; a ridge ris of rocks rising above the sea.

"From Bermuda's reefs; from edges

Of sunken ledges."-Longfelir: Seaweed. 4. A rim, an edge.

"I set this vase upon the ledge of the tray, and it was nearly falling."-Miss Edgeworth. Moral Tales, i. 244. 5. A bar for fastening a gate.

II. Technically:

1. Arch.: A small molding, as the Doric dropledge.

2. Joinery: A piece against which something rests; as the batten on the back of a door, the filles against which a door closes, &c.

3. Mining: A stratum of metal-bearing rock. 4. Print.: A piece of furniture; a stick used in wedging up. (Eng.)

5. Shipbuild.: A thwart-ship piece in the deckframing. [SHELF-PIECE.] A support for the decks, parallel to and intermediate between the beams. HEAD-LEDGE.]

*lědge, v. t. [An abbrev. of allege (q. v.).] lědged, a. [Eng. ledg(e); ed.] Furnished with a ledge or ledges; as, a ledged door.

lědge -ment, lědg'-měnt, *ligge-ment, s. [Eng ledge, s.; -ment.]

Architecture:

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father; wē, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre;

pine, pit, sïre, sir,

marîne; gỗ, pot,

ledger-bait

2. Masonry: A large, flat capstone, over a tomb for instance.

walls, lashed to the standards or vertical poles, and 3. Scaffolding: A horizontal pole, parallel to the supporting the putlogs on which the boards of the bricklayers' scaffold rest.

4. Sport.: The same as LEDGER-BAIT (q. v.). *B. As adj.: Resting, lying, or remaining on any place; not moving about.

ledger-bait, 8. A bait fixed or made to remain in one place. It is used in fishing for barbel or bream.

ledger-blade, s. The stationary blade with a rectilinear edge, placed as a tangent to the spirallybladed cylinder, by which cloth is shorn and the nap reduced to a length. Another form of clothshearing machine has a semicircular ledger-blade, and a large revolving wheel containing eight small cutting discs, made to revolve by planetary pinions, and acting as shears in connection with the edge of the ledger-blade.

ledger-book, *leiger-book, *ligier-book, 8. The same as LEDGER, 11.1.

"Many leiger-books of the monasteries [are] still remaining."-H. Warton: On Burnet's Hist. Reform., p. 42. ledger-line (1), s. The same as LEDGER-BAIT (q.v.).

lědg -ēr, lěg-er, a. [Fr. léger-light.] Light. (Only used in the compound.)

lědg-, s. [Eng. ledg(e), s.; -y.] Abounding in ledges.

lē-di-tăn ́-nic, a. [Lat. ledum (genit. ledi), and Eng. tannic.] (See the compound.)

leditannic-acid, s.

Chem.: C28H30015. A variety of tannic acid found in the leaves of the marsh wild rosemary (Ledum palustre). It is a reddish, inodorous powder, soluble in water and in alcohol. Its aqueous solution is colored dark green by ferric chloride.

lē-dix-ăn -thin, s. [English ledi (tannic), and xanthin(e).]

Chem.: CH6O3. A reddish-yellow powder, produced by boiling a solution of leditannic acid with sulphuric or hydrochloric acid. It is soluble in alcohol and in the alkalies, and from its solution in alcohol it is precipitated as a reddish-brown powder by an alcoholic solution of neutral acetato of lead. lē-don, 8. [Lat., from Gr. ledon.] [LEDUM.] The gum of Cistus ledon.

lē -dŭm, s. [Lat.; Gr. ledon an Oriental shrub, Cistus creticus, on the leaves of which ladanum was found.] [LADANUM.]

Bot. Labrador-tea: a genus of Ericace, tribe Rhododendrese. Calyx four-toothed; petals five, spreading; stamens four to ten; capsule five-celled, five-valved; seeds winged. The leaves of Ledum latifolium and L. palustre infused in beer produce headache, nausea, and even delirium. They have been prescribed in tertian ague, dysentery, and diarrhoea. Ledum is used in the tanning of Russian leather.

ledum-camphor, s. [LEDUM-OIL.]
ledum-oil, s.

Chem.: An oil obtained by distilling the leaves of the marsh wild rosemary (Ledum palustre). It is a yellowish, viscid oil, lighter than water, and pos Bessing a pungent odor. When exposed to the air, it gradually solidifies to a crystalline mass, insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol and ether. It appears to be a mixture of a volatile oil and a solidified oil (Ledum-camphor). The analysis of Ledum-camphor leads to the formula C28H48O. lee (1), 8. & a. [Icel. hle, hlé-bordh the lee-side; cogn. with Dan. la; Sw. lä; Dut. lij; A. S. hleo, kleow a covering, a shelter; Prov. Eng. lew-a shelter; O. Sax. hleo=protection.]

A. As substantive:

1. Naut.: The side or quarter of a ship opposite to that from which the wind blows; the sheltered side; the shelter afforded by an object interposed and keeping off the wind.

"For now in front her trembling inmates see The hills of Greece emerging on the lee." Falconer: Shipwreck, iii.

†2. Hence, any sheltered side. "He halted, desiring me to take shelter in his lee."Tyndall: Frag. of Science, ch. vii., p. 234.

B. As adj. Of or pertaining to that side or quarter toward which the wind blows; as, the lee side of a ship.

(1) To lay a ship by the lee: Naut.: To place a ship in such a position that the wind will come right upon her broadside, and the sails will lie flat against the masts and shrouds. (2) Under the lee of:

Naut.: On that side which is opposite to that against which the wind blows; on the sheltered side; protected from the wind.

boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat,
-tion,
-cian,
shan.
-tian =

lee-board, 8.

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Naut.: A board lowered on the lee side of a flat-
ing leeway, preventing the vessel drifting to lee-
bottomed vessel to act as a temporary keel in avoid
ward. A center-board is a lee-board, raised and
lowered in a water-tight well amidships.
lee-fange, s.

Naut.: An iron across a deck or on the taffrail,
for the sheet of a fore-and-aft sail to slip on in
tacking.

lee-gauge, s.

Naut.: A greater distance from the point whence
the wind blows than another vessel has.
lee-lurch, s.

leer

Care should be taken that they do not enter the mouth or any other cavity of the body. To destroy are used. a leech in the stomach, injections of salt and water

leech-gatherer, s. One who gathers leeches for medical purposes.

leech (2), leach, *leetch, s. [Icel. lika leechline; Sw. lik; Dan. liga bolt-rope.]

Naut.: The side edge of a square sail. The foremost edge (for the time being) is the luff or weatherleech. In a fore-and-aft sail, the after edge is the leech.

leech-line, s.

Naut.: A lino attached to the leech-rope on the edge of a sail, and passing up through a block on Naut.: A violent lurch or roll of a ship to leeward the yard, to haul on the leech; as the bunt and leech-lines, the preventer leech-line. in a high sea.

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lee (2), s. [Fr. lie.] The sediment or coarser
parts of a liquid, which settle at the bottom; now
only used in the plural. [LEES.]
[LIFE.] (Scotch.)
[LEA.]
[LIE.]

lee (3), s. lee (4), s. *leē, v. i.

lee -a, s. [Named after James Lee, founder of
the Hammersmith Nursery.]

Bot.: The typical genus of the tribe Lee (q. v.).
It consists of shrubs growing in tropical Asia and
Africa. L. aspera, a Western Himalayan species,
produces a black succulent fruit, eaten by the

natives.

lē -ě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. le(ea); Lat. fem. pl.
adj. suff. -ec.]
Bot.: A tribe of Vitaceae (Vineworts). The petals
are united at the base, the stamens monadelphous,
the ovules solitary, no tendrils. The stems of Leea
robusta are used in India for fences, stakes. and
temporary huts.

leech (1), *leche, 8. [A. S. lace a physician;
lácniun to cure; cogn. with Icel. læknir physi.
cian; lækna to cure; Dan. læge a physician;
læge to heal; Sw. läkare a physician; läka=to
heal; Goth. leikeis, leke is a physician; leikinon
to heal; O. H. Ger. láhhi, láchi=a physician;
lahhinón=to heal; M. H. Ger. láchenen to use
remedies; láchen a remedy: Ir. & Gael. leigh a
physician; leigheas a cure. Once the general Eng-
fish appellation for a physician. After it became
obsolete in England it was still retained by the
inhabitants within the Irish pale. (Trench: Eng-
lish Past and Present.)]

*I. Ord. Lang.: A physician, a doctor; a professor of the art of healing.

II. Technically:

1. Zoology:

Sucker and Jaw of Leech.

(1) Sing. Any individual of the suctorial order Hirudinea, of which the best known examples are the horseleech (q. v.), and the medicinal leech, under which name two species are commonly employed: Hirudo medicinalis, chiefly imported from Germany, Bohemia, and Russia; and the Hungarian leech (H. a officinalis). Greenish-olive to dark green, six yellowreddish or yellow bands along the back; numerous black spots on abdomen. The body is composed of from 90 to 100 rings, and furnished with a discal and caudal sucker. The anterior sucker is small, the mouth furnished with three semicircular tootbed jaws, meeting in a point. Leeches grow very slowly, and some years elapse before they arrive at maturity. They are not fit for medical purposes before the age of twelve or eighteen months. They inhabit pools and marshy places; and in the south of France they are bred in large marshes chiefly for the continental market.

çell, chorus, -sion = shun;

a. Anterior extremity of Hirudo officinalis, magnified, showing the sucker and triradiate jaws. b. One of the jaws detached, showing the semicircular toothed margin.

(2) Pl.: The order of Hirudinea.

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B. Intransitive:

1. To practice medicine. 2. To bleed with leeches. leëçh (2), v. t. [LETCH.]

leech-tub, s. [LETCH-TUB.]

leech -craft, leche-craft, s. [Eng. leech (1), and craft. The art of healing; the scionce of or skill in medicine.

leĕ çhee, s. [LITCHI, 8.]

leēds -ite, s. [Named after the place where found, Leeds, England; suff. -ite (Min.).] Min.: A mixture of gypsum and barytes. *leef, leefe, a. [A. S. leóf, lióf.] [LIEF.] Kind, fond, willing.

leek, *leke, s. [A. S. leác; cogn. with Dut. look; Icel. laukr; Dan. log; Sw. lök; Ger. lauch.]

Bot. & Hort.: Allium porrum, a culinary vegetable. The stem and leaves are used in soups and stews. The blanched stems are much used by the French in their cookery. The Welsh wear it on St. David's Day (March 1). The leek of Scripture (Heb. chhatsir) is probably correctly translated in Numb. xi. 12. Though this is the only passage in the A. V. rendered leek, yet chhatsir occurs in nineteen other passages.

"Seeing now that I am entered thus far into a discourse of onions, I shall not do amisse to treate of leekes also."-P. Holland: Pliny, bk. xix., ch. v.

The Sand-leek is Allium scorodoprasum; the Wild-leck is 4. ampeloprasum, which is indigenous to the west of Ireland, but only naturalized in England. The Stone-leek is A. fistulosum.

To eat the leek: To retract statements which one has made. (Shakesp.: Henry V., v. 1.) leek-green, s. A green color, resembling that of the lock.

*leeke, a. [LIKE, a.]

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lee-lāne, leē -fu-lāne, adv. [Prob. from lee= life, and lane=lone, alone.] All alone. (Scotch.) long.] lee -lăng, a. [English lee (3), and lang Livelong. (Scotch.) "The thresher's weary flingin-tree, The leelang day had tired me."

Burns: The Vision. lee-lite, s. [Named after J. F. Lee, of St. John's College, Cambridge, England.]

Min.: A variety of compact orthoclase (q. v.), of a deep flesh-red color and waxy luster, found at Gryphyttan, Sweden.

leër, v. i. & t. [LEER, 8.]

A. Intransitive:

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3. An oblique, sly, or arch look; a look expressive 2. Surg. Leeches are employed for the local of a feeling of malice, amorousness, or triumph. *B. As adj.: Leering; glancing on all sides. extraction of blood when cupping is not advisable. thin, this; sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = L go, gem; -sious shŭs. -ble, -dle, &c. = bel, del. çhin, bench; -tion, = zhăn. -tious, -cious, -gion

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