Leap (n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
Leap (n.) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
Leap (n.) A fault.
Leap (n.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
Leaper (n.) One who, or that which, leaps.
Leaper (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
Leapfrog (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.
Leapful (n.) A basketful.
Leaping (a. & n.) from Leap, to jump.
Leapingly (adv.) By leaps.
Leap year () 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.
Lear (v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn.
Lear (n.) Lore; lesson.
Lear (a.) See Leer, a.
Lear (n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n.
Learned (imp. & p. p.) of Learn
Learnt () of Learn
Learning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Learn
Learn (v. t.) To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.
Learn (v. t.) To communicate knowledge to; to teach.
Learn (v. i.) To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.
Learnable (a.) Such as can be learned.
Learned (a.) 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.
Learner (n.) One who learns; a scholar.
Learning (n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.
Learning (n.) The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.
Leasable (a.) Such as can be leased.
Lease (v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
Leased (imp. & p. p.) of Lease
Leasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lease
Lease (v. t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
Lease (v. t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
Lease (v. t.) 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.
Lease (v. t.) The contract for such letting.
Lease (v. t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
Leasehold (a.) Held by lease.
Leasehold (n.) A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.
Leaseholder (n.) A tenant under a lease.
Leaser (n.) One who leases or gleans.
Leaser (n.) A liar.
Leash (n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
Leash (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
Leash (n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
Leashed (imp. & p. p.) of Leash
Leashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leash
Leash (v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Leasing (a.) The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies.
Leasow (n.) A pasture.
Least (a.) Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.
Least (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it.
Least (conj.) See Lest, conj.
Leastways (adv.) Alt. of Leastwise
Leastwise (adv.) At least; at all events.
Leasy (a.) Flimsy; vague; deceptive.
Leat (n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.
Leather (n.) The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
Leather (n.) The skin.
Leathered (imp. & p. p.) of Leather
Leathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leather
Leather (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather.
Leatherback (n.) 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.
Leatheret (n.) Alt. of Leatherette
Leatherette (n.) An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
Leatherhead (n.) The friar bird.
Leathern (a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse.
Leatherneck (n.) The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).
Leatherwood (n.) 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.
Leathery (a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough.
Leaved (imp. & p. p.) of Leave
Leaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leave
Leave (v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
Leave (v. t.) To raise; to levy.
Leave (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
Leave (n.) The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
Left (imp. & p. p.) of Leave
Leaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leave
Leave (v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
Leave (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
Leave (v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
Leave (v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
Leave (v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
Leave (v.) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.
Leave (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.
Leave (v. i.) To depart; to set out.
Leave (v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.
Leaved (a.) Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved.
Leaveless (a.) Leafless.
Leaven (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
Leaven (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
Leavened (imp. & p. p.) of Leaven
Leavening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leaven
Leaven (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Leavening (n.) The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.
Leavening (n.) That which leavens or makes light.
Leavenous (a.) Containing leaven.
Leaver (n.) One who leaves, or withdraws.
Leaves (n.) pl. of Leaf.
Leave-taking (n.) Taking of leave; parting compliments.
Leaviness (n.) Leafiness.