Webster's Dictionary 1828

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LECTURN

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

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LED

LED, preterit tense and participle passive of lead.

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LEDEN

LED'EN, noun Language; true meaning. obsolete

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LEDGE

LEDGE, noun1. 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 risi...

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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.]

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LEE

LEE, nounplural less. Dregs; sediment. [See Lees.]LEE, nounLiterally, a calm or sheltered place, a place defended from the wind; hence, that part of the hemisphers towards which...

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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.

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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 t...

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LEECH

LEECH, noun1. 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 an...

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LEECH-CRAFT

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

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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.

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LEECH-ROPE

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

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LEEF

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

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LEEK

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

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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...

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LEER

LEER, verb intransitive1. 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 ...

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LEERING

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

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LEERINGLY

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

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LEES

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

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LEESE

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

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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 mano...

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LEET-ALE

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

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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 t...

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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.

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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 ...

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LEFT-HANDED

LEFT-HAND'ED, adjective1. 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; inauspi...

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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.