The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.

Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.

To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.

To besiege; to beleaguer.

A besieger.

To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.

A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

The quality of being leaky.

having liquid seeping in or out through openings; leaky.

having no leaks.

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask; a leaky faucet.

Faithful; loyal; true.

A cord or strap for leading a dog.

A dog held by a leam.

That part of flesh which consists principally of muscle without the fat.

Having a thin face.

A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall.

Having but little sense or shrewdness.

The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

The condition or quality of being lean.

Lean.

The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.

Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.

A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.

A basketful.

from Leap, to jump.

By leaps.

An annealing oven. See Leer, n.

To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.

Such as can be learned.

Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.

profound knowledge.

One who learns; a scholar.

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

Such as can be leased.

The temporary transfer of a possession to another person in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid for the transfer; A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

Same as lend-lease.

A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.

A tenant under a lease.

A liar.

To tie together, or hold, with a leash.

The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies.

A pasture.

See Lest, conj.

At least; at all events.

Flimsy; vague; deceptive.

An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.

To beat, as with a thong of leather.

Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.

A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

A material made in imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.

any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes.

The friar bird.

any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales; the leatherjacket{2}.

any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes.

A stiff leathery-leaved fern (Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.

resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable; leathery.

Made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a leathern purse.

A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy.

Articles made of leather.

Resembling leather in appearance or consistency; tough; as, nothing but a leathery steak left to eat.

To depart; to set out.

Taking of leave; the act of departing politely; the giving of parting compliments.

Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved.

Leafless.

To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder. Opposite of unleavened.

The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.

Containing leaven.

One who leaves, or withdraws.

pl. of Leaf.

Leafiness.

Things left; remnants; relics.

Leafy.

Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

The hartbeest.

Divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained from several varieties of lichen (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.), as a white, crystalline substance, and is called also orsellic acid, diorsellinic acid, lecanorin, etc.

See Lecanoric.

To lick.

Same as letch.

A category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia.

A naturally occurring colorless glass made of almost pure silica, and found in fulgurites, which are produced by lightning striking sand.

See water buck, under 3d Buck.

To practice lewdness.

See Lecher, n.

Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; excessively lustful; -- used mostly of men; lust-provoking.

an inclination to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; habitually developing a strong sexual arousal.

Free indulgence of lust; excessive indulgence in sexual relations; -- used mostly of men.

A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles.

A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read.

A kind of litter or portable couch.

A lesson or selection, especially of Scripture, read in divine service.

A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.

A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.

Confining to the bed; as, a lectual disease.

To deliver a lecture or lectures.

One who lectures; an assistant preacher.

The office of a lecturer.

Same as lectern.

A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtace/, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. Lecythis Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

of Lead.

Language; speech; voice; cry.

A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

See Ledgment.

A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.

A string-course or horizontal suit of moldings, such as the base moldings of a building. The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.

Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.

A genus of evergreen shrubs of the north temperate regions.

Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.

A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.

To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

The art of healing; skill of a physician.

A caldron; a copper kettle.

See Lief.

A plant of the genus Allium (Allium Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.

See Leme.

Leaped.