LEADEN-HEELED
LEADEN-HEE'LED, adjective Moving slowly.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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LEADEN-STEPPING
LEADEN-STEP'PING, adjective Moving slowly.
LEADER
LE'ADER, noun1. One that leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.2. A chief; a commander; a captain.3. One who goes first.4. The chief of a party or faction; as the leader of th...
LEADING
LE'ADING, participle present tense1. Guiding; conducting; preceding; drawing; alluring; passing life.2.adjective Chief; principal; capital; most influential; as a leading motive...
LEADING-STRINGS
LE'ADING-STRINGS, noun Strings by which children are supported when beginning to walk.To be in leading strings, to be in a state of infancy or dependence, or in pupilage under t...
LEADMAN
LE'ADMAN, noun One who begins or leads a dance. obsolete
LEADWORT
LEADWORT, noun led'wort. Plumbago, a genus of plants.
LEADY
LEADY, adjective led'dy. Of the color of lead.
LEAF
LEAF, nounplural leaves.1. In botany, leaves are organs of perspiration and inhalation in plants. They usually shoot from the sides of the stems and branches, but sometimes from...
LEAF-STALK
LE'AF-STALK, noun The petiole or stalk which supports a leaf.
LEAFAGE
LE'AFAGE, noun Abundance of leaves.
LEAFED
LE'AFED, participle passive Having leaves.
LEAFLESS
LE'AFLESS, adjective Destitute of leaves; as a leafless tree.
LEAFLET
LE'AFLET, noun1. A little leaf.2. In botany, one of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
LEAFY
LE'AFY, adjective Full of leaves; as the leafy forest.
LEAGUE
LEAGUE, noun leeg. [Latin ligo, to bind.]1. An alliance or confederacy between princes or states for their mutual aid or defense; a national contract or compact. A league may be...
LEAGUED
LE'AGUED, participle passive lee'ged. United in mutual compact; confederated.
LEAGUER
LE'AGUER, noun lee'ger. One who unites in a league; a confederate.LE'AGUER, nounSiege; investment of a town or fort by an army. [Little used.]
LEAK
LEAK, noun [Gr. a fissure or crevice, Latin lacero and loquor, and perhaps Eng. clack. It seems that licerish is from the root of leak and signifies properly watery.]1. A crack,...
LEAKAGE
LE'AKAGE, noun1. A leaking; or the quantity of a liquor that enters or issues by leaking.2. An allowance, in commerce, of a certain rate per cent, for the leaking of casks, or t...
LEAKY
LE'AKY, adjective1. That admits water or other liquor to pass in or out; as a leaky vessel; a leaky ship or barrel.2. Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.
LEAMER
LE'AMER, noun A dog; a kind of hound.
LEAN
LEAN, verb intransitive [Gr., Latin clino.]1. To deviate or move from a straight or perpendicular line; or to be in a position thus deviating. We say, a column leans to the nort...
LEANLY
LE'ANLY, adverb Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
LEANNESS
LE'ANNESS, noun1. Destitution of fat; want of flesh; thinness of body; meagerness; applied to animals.2. Want of matter; poverty; emptiness; as the leanness of a purse.3. In Scr...
LEANY
LE'ANY, adjective Alert; brisk; active. [Not in use.]
LEAP
LEAP, verb intransitive [Latin labor, perhaps. Heb.]1. To spring or rise from the ground with both feet, as man, or with all the feet, as other animals; to jump; to vault; as, a...