Dictionary entry

Leave (5)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Leave (?), v. i. 1. To depart; to set out.

By the time I left for Scotland. Carlyle.

2. To cease; to desist; to leave off. “He... began at the eldest, and left at the youngest.” Gen. xliv. 12.

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

Leave off, and for another summons wait. Roscommon.