Leather-Seller – Lest

Leather-Seller

LEATH'ER-SELLER,

LEATH'ER-WINGED,

LEATH'ERN,

LEATH'ERY,

LEAVE, noun

1. Permission; allowance; license; liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed.

No friend has leave to bear away the dead.

David earnestly asked leave of me. 1 Samuel 20:1.

2. Farewell; adieu; ceremony of departure; a formal parting of friends; used chiefly in the phrase to take leave. Acts 18:1.

LEAVE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive left. [Gr. Let in English has the sense both of permit and of hinder. The most prominent significations of leave, are to stop or forbear, and to withdraw.]

1. To withdraw or depart from; to quit for a longer or shorter time indefinitely, or for perpetuity. We left Cowes on our return to the United States, May 10, 1825. We leave home for a day or a year. The fever leaves the patient daily at a certain hour. The secretary has left the business of his office with his first clerk.

A man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife. Genesis 2:1.

2. To forsake; to desert; to abandon; to relinquish.

We have left all and followed thee. Mark 10:1.

3. To suffer to remain; not to take or remove.

Let no man leave of it till the morning. Exodus 16:1.

4. To have remaining at death; as, to leave a good name.

5. To commit or trust to, as a deposit; or to suffer to remain. I left the papers in the care of the consul.

6. To bequeath; to give by will. The deceased has left his lands to his sons, but he has left a legacy to his only daughter.

7. To permit without interposition. Of this, he leaves the reader to judge.

8. To cease to do; to desist from; to forbear.

Let us return, lest my father leave caring for the asses and take thought for us. 1 Samuel 9:5.

9. To refer; to commit for decision.

To be left to one's self, to be deserted or forsaken; to be permitted to follow one's own opinions or desires.

To leave off, to desist from; to forbear; as, to leave off work at six o'clock.

1. To leave off, to cease wearing; as, to leave off a garment.

2. To forsake; as, to leave off an old acquaintance.

To leave out, to omit; as, to leave out a word or name in writing.

LEAVE, verb intransitive To cease; to desist.

He began at the eldest and left at the youngest. Genesis 44:12.

To leave off, to cease; to desist; to stop.

But when you find that vigorous heat abate, leave off, and for another summons wait.

LEAVE, verb transitive To raise. [Not used.]

Leather-Winged

LEATH'ER-WINGED,

Leathern

LEATH'ERN,

Leathery

LEATH'ERY,

Leave

LEAVE, n. 1. Permission; allowance; license; liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed.No friend has leave to bear away the dead.David earnestly asked leave of me. 1Sam. 20.2. Farewell; adieu; ceremony of departure; a formal parting of friends; used chiefly in the phrase to take leave. Acts 18.

Leaved

LE'AVED, adjective [from leaf; but leafed would be preferable.]

1. Furnished with foliage or leaves.

2. Having a leaf, or made with leaves or folds; as a two-leaved gate.

Leaven

LEAVEN, noun lev'n. [Latin levo, Eng. to lift.]

1. A mass of sour dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough or paste, produces fermentation in it and renders it light. During the seven days of the passover, no leaven was permitted to be in the houses of the Jews. Exodus 12:15.

2. Any thing which makes a general change in the mass. It generally means something which corrupts or depraves that with which it is mixed.

Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Matthew 16:6.

LEAVEN, verb transitive lev'n.

1. To excite fermentation in; to raise and make light, as dough or paste.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 1 Corinthians 5:6.

2. to taint; to imbue.

Leavened

LEAVENED, participle passive lev'ened. Taised and made light by fermentation.

Leavening

LEAVENING, participle present tense lev'ening. Making light by fermentation.

LEAVENING, noun lev'ening. that which leavens or makes light.

Leavenous

LEAVENOUS, adjective lev'enous. containing leaven; tainted.

Leaver

LE'AVER, noun [from leave.]One who leaves or relinquishes; one who forsakes.

Leaves

LEAVES, noun plural of leaf.

Leaving

LE'AVING, participle present tense Quitting; withdrawing from; relinquishing; suffering to remain; ceasing; desisting from.

Leavings

LE'AVINGS, noun plural

1. Things left; remnant; relics.

The leavings of Pharsalia.

2. Refuse; offal.

Leavy

LE'AVY, adjective [from leaf.] Full of leaves; covered with leaves. [An improper word; it ought to be leafy.

Lech

LECH, for lick. obsolete [See Lick.]

Lecher

LECH'ER, noun

A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an exorbitant degree, to the indulgence of the animal appetite, and an illicit commerce with females.

LECH'ER, verb intransitive to practice lewdness; to indulge lust.

Lecherous

LECH'EROUS, adjective

1 Addicted to lewdness; prone to indulge lust; lustful; lewd.

2. Provoking lust.

Lecherously

LECH'EROUSLY, adverb Lustfully; lewdly.

Lecherousness

LECH'EROUSNESS, noun Lust, or strong propensity to indulge the sexual appetite.

Lechery

LECH'ERY, noun Lewdness; free indulgence of lust; practice of indulging the animal appetite.

Lection

LEC'TION, noun [Latin lectio, from lego, to read, Gr.]

1. A reading.

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

3. A lesson or portion of Scripture read in divine service.

Lectionary

LEC'TIONARY, noun The Romish servicebook, containing portions of Scripture.

Lecture

LEC'TURE, noun [Latin lectura, from lego, to read.]

1. A discourse read or pronounced on any subject; usually, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; as a lecture on morals, philosophy, rhetoric, or theology.

2. A reading; the act or practice of reading; as in the lecture of Holy Scripture. [Little used.]

3. A magisterial reprimand; a formal reproof.

4. A recitation; rehearsal of a lesson.

LEC'TURE, verb intransitive

1. To read or deliver a formal discourse.

2. To practice reading lectures for instruction. We say, the professor lectures on geometry, or on chimistry.

LEC'TURE, verb transitive

1. To instruct by discourses.

2. To instruct dogmatically or authoritatively; to reprove; as, to lecture one for his faults.

Lecturer

LEC'TURER, noun

1. One who reads or pronounces lectures; a professor or an instructor who delivers formal discourses for the instruction of others.

2. A preacher in a church, hired by the parish to assist the rector, vicar or curate.

Lectureship

LEC'TURESHIP, noun The office of a lecturer.

Lecturing

LEC'TURING, participle present tense Reading or delivering a discourse; reproving.

Lecturn

LEC'TURN, noun A reading desk. [Not in use.]

Led

LED, preterit tense and participle passive of lead.

Leden

LED'EN, noun Language; true meaning. obsolete

Ledge

LEDGE, noun

1. A stratum, layer or row.

The lowest ledge or row should be merely of stone.

2. A ridge; a prominent row; as a ledge of rocks.

3. A prominent part; a regular part rising or projecting beyond the rest.

4. A small molding.

5. A small piece of timber placed athwart ships, under the deck between the beams.

6. A long ridge of rocks near the surface of the sea.

Ledger

LEDG'ER, noun The principal book of accounts among merchants; the book into which the accounts of the journal are carried in a summary form. [See Leger.]

Lee

LEE, noun plural less. Dregs; sediment. [See Lees.]

LEE, noun

Literally, a calm or sheltered place, a place defended from the wind; hence, that part of the hemisphers towards which the wind blows, as opposed to that from which it proceeds.

Under the lee denotes properly, in the part defended from the wind.

Under the lee of the land, is properly, near the shore which breaks the force of the wind.

Under the lee of a ship, on the side opposite to that on which the wind blows.

LEE, verb intransitive To lie. [Not used. See Lie.]

LEE'-BOARD, noun A frame of plant affixed to the side of a flat-bottomed vessel, to prevent it from falling to leeward when close-hauled.

LEE'-GAGE, noun A greater distance from the point whence the wind blows, than another vessel has.

Lee-Lurch

LEE'-LURCH, noun A sudden and violent roll of a ship to leeward in a high sea.

LEE'-SHORE, noun The shore under the lee of a ship, or that towards which the wind blows.

Lee-Side

LEE'-SIDE, noun The side of a ship or boat farthest from the point whence the wind blows; opposed to the weather-side.

LEE'-TIDE, noun A tide running in the same direction that the wind blows. A tide under the lee, is a stream in an opposite direction to the wind.

Leech

LEECH, noun

1. A physician; a professor of the art of healing.

[This word, in the United States, is nearly or wholly obsolete. Even cow leech is not used.]

2. A blood-sucker; an animal of the genus Hirudo, a species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding. One large species of this animal is called horse-leech.

3. In seamen's language, the border or edge of a sail, which is sloping or perpendicular; as the fore-leech, the after-leech, etc.

Leech-Craft

LEE'CH-CRAFT, noun The art of healing. obsolete

Leech-Line

LEE'CH-LINE, noun Leech-lines are ropes fastened to the middle of the leeches of the main-sail and fore-sail, serving to truss them up to the yards.

Leech-Rope

LEE'CH-ROPE, noun That part of the bolt-rope to which the skirt or border of a sail is sewed.

Leef

LEEF, adjective Kind; fond; pleasing; willing. obsolete

Leek

LEEK, noun

A plant of the genus Allium, with a bulbous root. Numbers 11:5.

Leelite

LEE'LITE, noun A mineral, so called from Dr. Lee, of St. John's College, Cambridge. It is described as a siliceous stone, and by some mineralogists considered to be a hydrate of silica.

Leer

LEER, verb intransitive

1. To look obliquely; to turn the eye and cast a look from a corner, either in contempt, defiance or frowning, or for a sly look.

2. To look with a forced countenance.

LEER, verb transitive To allure with smiles.

LEER, noun

1. The cheek. obsolete

2. Complexion; hue; face. obsolete

3. An oblique view.

- With jealous leer malign eyed them askance.

4. An affected cast of countenance.

Damn with faint praise, concede with civil leer

LEER, adjective Empty; also, trifling; frivolous. obsolete

Leering

LEE'RING, participle present tense Looking obliquely; casting a look askance.

Leeringly

LEE'RINGLY, adverb With an arch oblique look or smile.

Lees

LEES, noun

The grosser parts of any liquor which have settled on the bottom of a vessel; dregs; sediment; as the lees of wine.

Leese

LEESE, verb transitive To lose. obsolete [See Lose.]

LEESE, verb transitive [Latin lasus.] To hurt. obsolete

Leet

LEET, noun In Great Britain, a court. The court-leet or view of frankpledge, is a court of record held once a year and not oftener, within a particular hundred, lordship or manor, before the steward of the leet Its original intent was to view the frankpledges or freemen within the liberty, to preserve the peace, and punish certain minute offenses. All freeholders within the precinct are obliged to attend this court.

The court-leet is for the most part superseded by the county court.

Leet-Ale

LEET-ALE, noun A feast or merry making in the time of leet.

Leeward

LEE'WARD, adjective Pertaining to the part towards which the wind blows; as a leeward ship.

LEE'WARD, adverb Towards the lee, or that part towards which the wind blows; opposed to windward; as fall to leeward

Leeway

LEE'WAY, noun The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course, or the angle which the line of her way makes with her keel, when she is close-hauled.

Left

LEFT, preterit tense and participle passive of leave.

LEFT, adjective [Latin lavus; Gr. probably from the root of leave, Gr. and properly weak, deficient. Applied to the hand or arm, it denotes the weak arm, as opposed to the right, the strong or dextrous. Hence the ancient idea of sinister, unfortunate, attached to the left arm or side.]

1. Denoting the part opposed to the right of the body; as the left hand, arm or side. Hence, the noun being omitted, we say, on the left that is, on the left side or wing, as of an army.

2. The left bank of a river, is that which is on the left hand of a person whose face is towards the mouth of the river.

Left-Handed

LEFT-HAND'ED, adjective

1. Having the left hand or arm more strong and dextrous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.

2. Unlucky; inauspicious; unseasonable. obsolete

Left-Handedness

LEFT-HAND'EDNESS, noun Habitual use of the left hand, or rather the ability to use the left hand with more ease and strength than the right.

Left-Handiness

LEFT-HAND'INESS, noun Awkwardness.

Leg

LEG, noun

1. The limb of an animal, used in supporting the body and in walking and running; properly, that part of the limb from the knee to the foot, but in a more general sense, the whole limb, including the thigh, the leg and the foot.

2. The long or slender support of any thing; as the leg of a table.

To make a leg to bow; a phrase introduced probably by the practice of drawing the right leg backward. [Little used.]

To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self; to trust to one's own strength or efforts without aid.

Legacy

LEG'ACY, [Latin legatum, from lego, to send, to bequeath.]

A bequest; a particular thing, or certain sum of money given by last will or testament.

Good counsel is the best legacy a father can leave to his child.

Legacy-Hunter

LEG'ACY-HUNTER, noun One who flatters and courts for legacies.

Legal

LE'GAL, adjective [Latin legalis, from lex, legis, law.]

1. According to law; in conformity with law; as a legal standard or test; a legal procedure.

2. Lawful; permitted by law; as a legal trade. Anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.

3. According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation.

4. Pertaining to law; created by law.

The exception must be confined to legal crimes.

So we use the phrase, criminal law.

Legality

LEGAL'ITY, noun

1. Lawfulness; conformity to law.

2. In theology, a reliance on works for salvation.

Legalize

LE'GALIZE, verb transitive

1. To make lawful; to render conformable to law; to authorize. What can legalize revenge?

2. To sanction; to give the authority of law to that which is done without law or authority. Irregular proceedings may be legalized by a subsequent act of the legislature.

Legally

LE'GALLY, adverb Lawfully; according to law; in a manner permitted by law.

Legatary

LEG'ATARY, noun [Latin legatarius, from lego, to bequeath.]

A legatee; one to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

[But legatee is generally used.]

Legate

LEG'ATE, noun [Latin legatus, from lego, to send. See Lackey.]

1. An embassador; but especially,

2. The pope's embassador to a foreign prince or state; a cardinal or bishop sent as the pope's representative or commissioner to a sovereign prince. Legates are of three kinds; legates a latere, or counselors and assistants of his holiness, legates de latere, who are not cardinals, and legates by office.

Legatee

LEGATEE', noun [Latin lego, to send.] One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

Legateship

LEG'ATESHIP, noun The office of a legate.

Legatine

LEG'ATINE, adjective

1. Pertaining to a legate; as legatine power.

2. Made by or proceeding from a legate; as a legatine constitution.

Legation

LEGA'TION, noun [Latin legatio, from lego, to send.] An embassy; a deputation; properly a sending, but generally, the person or persons sent as envoys or embassadors to a foreign court.

Legator

LEGA'TOR, noun [Latin] A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy. [Little used.]

Lege

LEGE, verb transitive To allege; to lighten. [Not in use.]

Legend

LEG'END, noun [Latin legenda, from lego, to read; originally, in the Romish church, a book of service or lessons to be read in worship.]

1. A chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins and at the refectories of religious houses. Hence,

2. An idle or ridiculous story told respecting saints.

3. Any memorial or relation.

4. An incredible, unauthentic narrative.

5. An inscription, particularly on medals and on coins.

LEG'END, verb transitive To tell or narrate, as a legend

Legendary

LEG'ENDARY, adjective Consisting of legends; fabulous; strange.

LEG'ENDARY, noun A book of legends; a relater of legends.

Leger

LEG'ER, noun Any thing that lies in a place; that which rests or remains; sometimes used as a noun, but more frequently as an adjective, as a leger ambassador, that is, resident; but the word is now obsolete, except in particular phrases.

A leger-line, in music, a line added to the staff of five lines, when more lines than five are wanted, for designating notes ascending or descending.

A leger-book, or leger a book that lies in the counting house, the book into which merchants carry a summary of the accounts of the journal; usually written ledger.

Legerdemain

LEG'ERDEMAIN, noun [See Light.]

Slight of hand; a deceptive performance which depends on dexterity of hand; a trick performed with such art and adroitness, that the manner or art eludes observation. The word is sometimes used adjectively; as a legerdemain trick.

Legerity

LEGER'ITY, noun Lightness; nimbleness. [Not in use.]

Legged

LEG'GED, adjective [from leg.] Having legs; used in composition; as a two-legged animal.

Leggin

LEG'GIN, noun [from leg.] A cover for the leg; a garment that encloses the leg.

Legibility

LEGIBIL'ITY, noun Legibleness; the quality or state of being legible.

Legible

LEG'IBLE, adjective [Latin legibilis, from lego, to read.]

1. That may be read; consisting of letters or figures that may be distinguished by the eye; as a fair, legible manuscript.

2. That may be discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications. The thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.

Legibleness

LEG'IBLENESS, noun The quality or state of being legible.

Legibly

LEG'IBLY, adverb In such a manner as may be read; as a manuscript legibly written.

Legion

LE'GION, noun [Latin legio, from lego, to collect.]

1. In Roman antiquity, a body of infantry consisting of different numbers of men at different periods, from three to five thousand. Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into ten companies, and each company into two centuries.

2. A military force; military bands.

3. A great number.

Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach.

My name is legion for we are many. Mark 5:9.

Legionary

LE'GIONARY, adjective

1. Relating to a legion or to legions.

2. Consisting of a legion or of legions; as a legionary force.

3. Containing a great number; as a legionary body of errors.

LE'GIONARY, noun One of a legion.

Legislate

LEG'ISLATE, verb intransitive [Latin lex, legis, law, and fero, latum, to give, pass or enact.]

To make or enact a law or laws. It is a question whether it is expedient to legislate at present on the subject. Let us not legislate when we have no power to enforce our laws.

Legislation

LEGISLA'TION, noun The act of passing a law or laws; the enacting of laws.

Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy.

Legislative

LEG'ISLATIVE, adjective

1. Giving or enacting laws; as a legislative body.

2. Capable of enacting laws; as legislative power.

3. Pertaining to the enacting of laws; suitable to laws; as the legislative style.

4. Done by enacting; as a legislative act.

[Note. In this word, and in legislator, legislatrix, legislature, the accent is nearly equal on the first and third syllables, and a, in the third, has its first or long sound.]

Legislator

LEGISLA'TOR, noun [Latin] A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community. This word is limited in its use to a supremem lawgiver, the lawgiver of a sovereign state or kingdom, and is not applied to men that make the by-laws of a subordinate corporation.

Legislatorship

LEGISLA'TORSHIP, noun the office of a legislator. [Not in use.]

Legislatress

LEGISLA'TRESS,

LEGISLA'TRIX, noun a female who makes laws.

Legislatrix

LEGISLA'TRIX, n. a female who makes laws.

Legislature

LEG'ISLATURE, noun the body of men in a state or kingdom, invested with power to make and repeal laws; the supreme power of a state. The legislature of Great Britain consists of the house of lords and the house of commons with the king, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures of most of the states in America, consist of two houses or branches, but the sanction of the govenor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses, after he has declined and assigned his objections.

Legist

LE'GIST, noun One skilled in the laws.

Legitimacy

LEGIT'IMACY, noun [from legitimate.]

1. Lawfulness of birth; opposed to bastardy.

2. Genuineness; opposed to spuriousness. the legitimacy of his conclusions is not to be questioned.

Legitimate

LEGIT'IMATE, adjective [Latin legitimus, from lex, law.]

1. Lawfully begotten or born; born in wedlock; as legitimate heirs or children.

2. Genuine; real; proceeding from a pure source; not false or spurious; as legitimate arguments or inferences.

LEGIT'IMATE, verb transitive

1. To make lawful

2. To render legitimate; to communicate the rights of a legitimate child to one that is illegitimate; to invest with the rights of a lawful heir.

Legitimately

LEGIT'IMATELY, adverb

1. Lawfully; according to law.

2. Genuinely; not falsely.

Legitimateness

LEGIT'IMATENESS, noun legality; lawfulness; genuineness.

Legitimation

LEGITIMA'TION, noun

1. The act of rendering legitimate, or of investing an illegitimate child with the rights of one born in wedlock.

2. Lawful birth. [Unusual.]

Legume

LEG'UME,

LEGU'MEN, noun [Latin legumen, lego to collect, and signifying that which collects, or holds, or a collection.]

1. In botany, a pericarp or seed-vessel, of two valves, in which the seeds are fixed to one suture only. In the latter circumstance it differs from a siliqua, in which the seeds are attached to both sutures. In popular use, a legume is called a pod, or a cod; as a pea-pod, or peas-cod.

2. In the plural, pulse, peas, beans, etc.

Legumen

LEGU'MEN, n. [L. legumen, lego to collect, and signifying that which collects, or holds, or a collection.] 1. In botany, a pericarp or seed-vessel, of two valves, in which the seeds are fixed to one suture only. In the latter circumstance it differs from a siliqua, in which the seeds are attached to both sutures. In popular use, a legume is called a pod, or a cod; as a pea-pod, or peas-cod.2. In the plural, pulse, peas, beans, &c.

Leguminous

LEGU'MINOUS, adjective Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse. leguminous plants are such as have a legume for a pericarp, as peas and beans.

Leisurable

LEIS'URABLE, adjective s as z. [See Leisure.] Vacant of employment; not occupied; as leisurable hours. [Little used.]

Leisurably

LEIS'URABLY, adverb At leisure; without hurry. [Little used.]

Leisure

LEISURE, noun lezh'ur or lee'zhur.

1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.

I shall leave with him that rebuke to be considered at his leisure

2. Convenience of time.

He sigh'd, and had no leisure more to say. [Not used.]

Leisurely

LEIS'URELY, adjective Done at leisure; not hasty; deliberate; slow; as a leisurely walk or march; a leisurely survey of life.

LEIS'URELY, adverb Not in haste or hurry; slowly; at leisure; deliberately.

We descended very leisurely by friend being careful to count the steps.

Leman

LE'MAN, noun [See Love and Lief.]

A sweetheart; a gallant, or a mistress. obsolete

Leme

LEME, noun A ray of light. [Not in use.]

LEME, verb intransitive To shine. obsolete

Leming

LE'MING, noun A species of animal belonging to the genus Mus; a kind of rat, in the north of Europe, which sometimes migrates from north to south in immense numbers.

Lemnian earth, or sphragide, from the isle of Lemnos, in the Egean sea, a kind of astringent medicinal earth, of a fatty consistence and reddish color, used in the same cases as bole. It has the external appearance of clay, with a smooth surface resembling agate, especially in recent fractures. It removes impurities like soap.

Lemma

LEM'MA, noun [Gr. from to receive.]

In mathematics, a previous proposition proved, or a proposition demonstrated for the purpose of being used in the demonstration of some other proposition. It is therefore a received truth.

Lemming

LEM'MING,

LEM'NISCATE, noun [Latin lemniscus, a ribbon; lemniscatus, adorned with ribbons.] A curve in the form of the figure 8.

Lemon

LEM'ON, noun

1. The fruit of a tree belonging to the genus Citrus, which grows in warm climates. This fruit furnishes a cooling acid juice, which forms an ingredient in some of our most delicious liquors.

2. lemon or lemon tree, the tree that produces lemons.

Lemonade

LEMONA'DE, noun

A liquor consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.

Lemur

LE'MUR, noun [Latin] A genus of quadrupeds, the Makis, natives of Africa and the East Indies.

Lemures

LE'MURES, noun [Latin] Hobgoblins; evil spirits. [Not English.]

Lend

LEND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive lent.

1. To grant to another for temporary use, on the express or implied condition that the thing shall be returned; as, to lend a book; or

2. To grant a thing to be used, on the condition that its equivalent in kind shall be returned; as, to lend a sum of money, or a loaf of bread.

3. To afford; to grant; to furnish, in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend an ear to a discourse.

Cato, lend me for a while they patience.

4. To grant for temporary use, on condition of receiving a compensation at certain periods for the use of the thing, and an ultimate return of the thing, or its full value. Thus money is lent on condition of receiving interest for the use, and of having the principal sum returned at the stipulated time. lend is correlative to borrow.

5. To permit to use for another's benefit. A lent his name to obtain money from the bank.

6. To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig. [This sense is used by Paley, and probably may be common in England. But in the United States, I believe, the word is never thus used, except in reference to money. We lend money upon interest, but never lend a coach or horse for a compensation. We use let.]

Lendable

LEND'ABLE, adjective That may be lent.

Lender

LEND'ER, noun

1. One who lends.

The borrower is servant to the lender Proverbs 22:7.

2. One who makes a trade of putting money to interest.

Lending

LEND'ING, participle present tense Granting for temporary use. [See Lend.]

LEND'ING, noun

1. The act of loaning.

2. That which is lent or furnished.

Lends

LENDS, noun Loins. [Not in use.]

Length

LENGTH, noun

1. The extent of anything material from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as the length of a church or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

2. Extent; extension.

Stretch'd at his length he spurns the swarthy ground.

3. A certain extent; a portion of space; with a plural.

Large lengths of seas and shores -

4. Space of time; duration, indefinitely; as a great length of time. What length of time will this enterprise require for its accomplishment?

5. Long duration.

May heaven, great monarch, still augment your bliss, with length of days, and every day like this.

6. Reach or extent; as, to pursue a subject to a great length

7. Extent; as the length of a discourse, essay, or argument.

8. Distance.

He had marched to the length of Exeter.

[Unusual and inelegant.]

1. At length at or in the full extent. Let the name be inserted at length

2. At last; at the end or conclusion.

LENGTH, verb transitive To extend. [Not used.]

Lengthen

LENGTH'EN, verb transitive length'n.

1. To extend in length; to make longer; to elongate; as, to lengthen a line.

2. To draw out or extend in time; to protract; to continue in duration; as, to lengthen life. The days lengthen from December to June.

3. To extend; as, to lengthen a discourse or a dissertation.

4. To draw out in pronunciation; as, to lengthen a sound or a syllable. This verb is often followed by out, which may be sometimes emphatical, but in general is useless.

What if I please to lengthen out his date?

LENGTH'EN, verb intransitive To grow longer; to extend in length. A hempen rope contracts when wet, and lengthens when dry.

Lengthened

LENGTH'ENED, participle passive Made longer; drawn out in length; continued in duration.

Lengthening

LENGTH'ENING, participle present tense Making longer; extending in length or in duration.

LENGTH'ENING, noun Continuation; protraction. Daniel 4:27.

Lengthful

LENGTH'FUL, adjective Of great length in measure.

Lengthwise

LENGTH'WISE, adverb In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.

Lengthy

LENGTH'Y, adjective Being long or moderately long; not short; not brief; applied mostly to moral subjects, as to discourses, writings, arguments, proceedings, etc.; as a lengthy sermon; a lengthy dissertation; a lengthy detail.

Lengthy period.

No ministerial act in France, in matters of judicial cognizance, is done without a process verbal, in which the facts are stated amidst a great deal of lengthy formality, with a degree of minuteness, highly profitable to the verbalizing officers and to the revenue.

P. S. Murray has sent or will send a double copy of the Bride and Giaour; in the last one, some lengthy additions; pray accept them, according to old customs.

Chalmers' Political Annals, in treating of South Carolina - is by no means as lengthy as Mr. Hewitt's History.

Lenient

LE'NIENT, adjective [Latin leniens, from lenio, lenis, soft, mild.

1. Softening; mitigating; assuasive.

Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand, yet tames not this.

Sometimes with of; as lenient of grief.

2. Laxative; emollient.

Oils relax the fibers, are lenient balsamic.

LE'NIENT, noun That which softens or assuages; an emollient.

Lenify

LEN'IFY, verb transitive To assuage; to soften; to mitigate. [Little used.]

Leniment

LEN'IMENT, noun An assuasive. [Not used.]

Lenitive

LEN'ITIVE, adjective [Latin lenio, to soften.]

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

LEN'ITIVE, noun

1. A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain; that which softens or mitigates.

2. A palliative; that which abates passion.

Lenity

LEN'ITY, noun [Latin lenitas, from lenis, mild, soft.]

Mildness of temper; softness; tenderness; mercy. Young offenders may be treated with lenity It is opposed to severity and rigor.

Lens

LENS, noun plural lenses. [Latin lens a lentil.] A transparent substance, usually glass, so formed that rays of light passing through it are made to change their direction, and to magnify or diminish objects at a certain distance. Lenses are double-convex, or convex on both sides; double-concave, or concave on both sides; plano-convex, or plano-concave, that is, with one side plane, and the other convex or concave; or convex on one side and concave on the other; the latter is called a meniscus.

Lent

LENT, participle passive of lend.

LENT, noun

The quadragesimal fast, or fast of forty days observed by the christian church before Easter, the festival of our Savior's resurrection. It begins at Ash Wednesday, and continues till Easter.

Lenten

LENT'EN, adjective Pertaining to lent; used in lent; sparing; as a lenten entertainment; a lenten salad.

Lenticular

LENTIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin lenticularis, from lens, supra.]

1. Resembling a lentil.

2. Having the form of a lens; lentiform.

Lenticularly

LENTIC'ULARLY, adverb In the manner of a lens; with a curve.

Lenticulite

LENTIC'ULITE, noun A petrified shell.

Lentiform

LENT'IFORM, adjective [Latin lens and forma, form.] Of the form of a lens.

Lentiginous

LENTIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin lentigo, a freckle, from Latin lens.] Freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

Lentigo

LENTI'GO, noun A freckly eruption on the skin.

Lentil

LEN'TIL, noun [Latin lens.] A plant of the genus Ervum. It is an annual plant, rising with weak stalks about 18 inches. The seeds, which are contained in a pod, are round, flat, and a little convex in the middle. It is cultivated for fodder, and for its seeds.

Lentiscus

LENTIS'CUS, noun [Latin lentiscus ]

A tree of the genus Pistacia, the mastichtree, a native of Arabia, Persia, Syria, and the south of Europe. The wood is of a pale brown, resinous and fragrant. [See Mastich.]

Lentisk

LEN'TISK,

LENT'ITUDE, noun [Latin lectus, slow.] Slowness. [Not used.]

Lentner

LENT'NER, noun A kind of hawk.

Lentor

LENT'OR, noun [Latin from lentus, slow, tough, clammy.]

1. Tenacity; viscousness.

2. Slowness; delay; sluggishness.

3. Siziness; thickness of fluids; viscidity; a term used in the humoral pathology.

Lentous

LENT'OUS, adjective [Latin lentus, slow, thick.] Viscid; viscous; tenacious.

Lenzinite

LEN'ZINITE, noun [from Lenzius, a German mineralogist.]

A mineral of two kinds, the opaline and argillaceous; a variety of clay, occurring usually in small masses of the size of a nut.

Leo

LE'O, noun [Latin] The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac.

Leonine

LE'ONINE, adjective [Latin leoninus, from leo, lion.] Belonging to a lion; resembling a lion, or partaking of his qualities; as leonine fierceness or rapacity.

Leonine verses, so named from Leo, the inventor, are those, the end of which rhymes with the middle; as,

Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.

Leoninely

LE'ONINELY, adverb In the manner of a lion.

Leopard

LEOPARD, noun lep'ard. [Latin leo, lion, and pardus, pard. Gr. from Heb. to separate, that is, spotted, broken into spots.]

A rapacious quadruped of the genus Felis. It differs from the panther and the once in the beauty of its color, which is of a lively yellow, with smaller spots than those of the two latter, and disposed in groups. It is larger than the once and less than the panther. This animal is found in Africa and Asia, and so rapacious as to spare neither man nor beast.

Leopards-Bane

LEOP'ARD'S-BANE, noun A plant of the genus Doronicum. The German Leopard's-bane is of the genus Arnica.

Leper

LEP'ER, noun [Latin lepra, leprosy. Gr.] A person affected with leprosy.

Lepid

LEP'ID, adjective [Latin lepidus.] Pleasant; jocose. [Little used.]

Lepidolite

LEP'IDOLITE, noun [Gr. a scale.] A mineral found in scaly masses, ordinarily of a violet or lilac color; allied to mica.

Lepidolite is of a peach-blossom red color, sometimes gray; massive and in small concretions. On account of its beautiful color, it has been cut into snuff-boxes. It is sometimes called lilalite.

Lepidopter

LEP'IDOPTER,

LEPIDOP'TERA, noun [Gr. a scale, and a wing.] The Lepidopteras are an order of insects having four wings covered with fine scales, like powder, as the butterfly.

Lepidoptera

LEPIDOP'TERA, n. [Gr. a scale, and a wing.] The Lepidopteras are an order of insects having four wings covered with fine scales, like powder, as the butterfly.

Lepidopteral

LEPIDOP'TERAL, adjective Belonging to the order of Lepidopters.

Leporine

LEP'ORINE, adjective [Latin leporinus, from lepus, a hare.]

Pertaining to a hare; having the nature or qualities of the hare.

Leprosity

LEPROS'ITY, noun Squamousness. [Little used.]

Leprosy

LEP'ROSY, noun [See Leper.] A foul cutaneous disease, appearing in dry, white, thin, scurfy scabs, attended with violent itching. It sometimes covers the whole body, rarely the face. One species of it is called elephantiasis.

The term leprosy is applied to two very distinct diseases, the scaly and the tuberculated, or the proper leprosy and the elephantiasis. The former is characterized by smooth laminated scales, sometimes livid, but usually whitish; in the latter, the skin is thickened, livid and tuberculated. It is called the black leprosy but this term is also applied to the livid variety of the scaly leprosy

Leprous

LEP'ROUS, adjective [See Leper.] Infected with leprosy; covered with white scales.

His hand was leprous as snow. Exodus 4:6.

Leprously

LEP'ROUSLY, adverb In an infectious degree.

Lere

LERE, noun Learning; lesson; lore. obsolete

LERE, verb transitive To learn; to teach. obsolete

Lesion

LE'SION, noun le'zhun. [Latin lasio, from lado, to hurt.]

A hurting; hurt; wound; injury.

Less

LESS, for unless. [Not in use.]

LESS, A terminating syllable of many nouns and some adjectives. Hence it is a privative word, denoting destitution; as a witless man, a man destitute of wit; childless, without children; fatherless; faithless; penniless; lawless, etc.

LESS, adjective Smaller; not so large or great; as a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value. We are all destined to suffer affliction in a greater or less degree.

LESS, adverb Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as less bright or loud; less beautiful; less obliging; less careful. The less a man praises himself, the more disposed are others to praise him.

LESS, noun

1. Not so much.

They gathered some more, some less Exodus 16:17.

2. An inferior.

The less is blessed by the better. Hebrews 7:7.

LESS, verb transitive To make less [Not in use.]

Lessee

LESSEE', noun [from lease.] The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.

Lessen

LESS'EN, verb transitive les'n. [from less.]

1. To make less; to diminish; to reduce in bulk, size, quantity, number or amount; to make smaller; as, to lessen a kingdom or its population.

2. To diminish in degree, state of quality; as, awkward manners tend to lessen our respect for men of merit.

3. To degrade; to reduce in dignity.

St. Paul chose to magnify his office, when ill men conspired to lessen it.

LESS'EN, verb intransitive les'n.

1. To become less; to shrink; to contract in bulk, quantity, number or amount; to be diminished. The apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them.

2. To become less in degree, quality or intensity; to decrease. The strength of the body, and the vivacity of the temper usually lessen as we advance in age.

Lessened

LESS'ENED, participle passive Made smaller; diminished.

Lessening

LESS'ENING, participle present tense Reducing in bulk, amount or degree; degrading.

Lesser

LESS'ER, adjective [This word is a corruption; but too well established to be discarded.]

Less; smaller. Authors always write the lesser Asia.

By the same reason, may a man in a state of nature, punish the lesser breaches of that law.

God made the lesser light to rule the night. Genesis 1:16.

Lesson

LES'SON, noun les'n. [Latin lectio, from lego, to read.]

1. Any thing read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner for improvement; or such a portion of a book as a pupil learns and repeats at one time. The instructor is pleased when his pupils recite their lessons with accuracy and promptness.

2. A portion of Scripture read in divine service. Thus endeth the first lesson

3. A portion of a book or manuscript assigned by a preceptor to a pupil to be learnt, or for an exercise; something to be learnt. Give him his lesson

4. Precept; doctrine or notion inculcated.

Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.

5. Severe lecture; reproof; rebuke.

She would give her a lesson for walking so late.

6. Tune written for an instrument.

7. Instruction or truth, taught by experience. The lessons which sickness imparts, she leaves to be practiced when health is established.

LES'SON, verb transitive les'n. To teach; to instruct.

Children should be lessoned into a contempt and detestation of this vice.

Lessoned

LES'SONED, participle passive Taught; instructed.

Lessoning

LES'SONING, participle present tense Teaching.

Lessor

LES'SOR, noun [from lease.] One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease.

Lest

LEST, conjunction That not; for fear that.

Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Genesis 3:3.

The phrase may be thus explained. Ye shall not touch it; that separated or dismissed, ye die. That here refers to the preceding command or sentence; that being removed or not observed, the fact being not so, ye will die.

Sin no more, lest a worse thing come to thee. John 5:14.

Sin no more; that fact not taking place, a worse thing will happen to thee.