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Show ,-, '.:‘: ™ "{ II into feveral parts, may be emptied out again Milton Praifing the /ean and fallow abftinence Swear that Adraftus, and the Jean-look'd prophet Dryden and Lee Are joint confp ators Lean people often fuffer for want of fat, as fa people may by obftrution of the veflels. Arbuthnot No laughing gr ces wanton in fay eyes But hagger'd guief, /ean-looking fallow care Dwell on my brow Rowe's Fane Shore Wilkins Golden ftars hung o'er their heads And feemed {o crowded, tnat they burft upon 'em And dart at once their baleful influenc Dryden and Lee In leaking fire AllowLe'skace. n f. [from leak. ance made for accidental lofs in liqui meafures LE'akY. adj. [from leak. "y M 1. Battere or pierced Thou'rt fo leaky That we muft leave thee to thy finking; fo Shakefpeare Thy deareft quit thee If you have not enjoy'd what youth could give fieve But life funk through you like a Accufe yourfelf, you liv'd not while you might Dryden 2. Loquacious; not clofe Women are fo leaky, that I have hardly me with one that could not hold her breath longer tha Ty Lean. . n. preter. Jeaned or leant [plinan, Saxon; lenen, Dutch. 1. To incline againft to reft againft Lear thine aged back againft mine arm b'.'fluzbyfb And in that cafe I'li tell thee my difeafe among the medals of Gor The columns may be allowed fomewhat abov their ordinary length, becaufe they/ean unto fo goo Wotton fupporters Upon his iv'ry feeptre firft he Jeant Then thook his head, that thook the firmament Dryaen o en rf o' an ti pa h ui an wi s' Oppre g His fainting limbs againft an oak he leant. Dryden If God be angry, all our other dependencies wil profit us nothing ; every other fupport will fail under us when we come to /ean upon it, and deceiv fir Rogers us in the day when we want it moft fire k /raning o'er the rails he mufing ftood. Gay The *Mid the central depth of black'ning woods High rais'd in folemn theatre aroun Thom|on Leans the huge elephant 2, To propend totend towards They delight rather to /ean to their old, cuftoms they be mor thoug nient an mor inconveSpenfer Truf in the Lord with all thine heart ; and /ea Prov. iii. 5 mot unto thine own underftanding A defire [eaning to either fide, biafles the judgmen b y D ). b unjuft Watts firangely 3. To be in a bending pofture She Jeans me out at her miftrefs's chamber window, bids me a thoufand times good night. Shakefp Wearied with length of ways, and worn with toil She laid her downj and laning on her knees Dryden Invok'd the caufe of all her miferies The gods came downward to behold the wars Sharp'ning their fights, and /eaning from their ftars Dryden Leax. adj. [plane, Saxon. 1. Not fat; meagre; wanting fleth; bare boned You tempt the fury of my three attendants Lean famine, quartering fteel, and climbing fire Shake[peare Lean raw-bon'd rafcals ! who would e'er fuppofe They had fuch courage and audacity! Shakefpeare Lean-look'd prophets whifper fearful change Shakefpeare T would invent as bitter fearching terms With full as ‘many figns of deadly hate As lean-fac'd envy in her loathfome cave. Shake/p Seven other kine cam up out of the river Gen. xli. 3 favour'd and /ean-flethed Le a phyfician beware ho ill h purge after har +frofty weather, and in a lean body, without prepaBacon Fation in oppofition to great o rich That which combin'd us was moft great, and le no S A leancr ation rend us bellithed : as Wh Leaw. n. /. That part of flcth which confifts of the mufcle without the fat Meagerly Le'anLy. adv. [from lean. without plumpnefs Le'axness. #./. [from lean. 1. Extenuatio meagrenefs of body want of fleth Want of matter 2. Space pafied by leaping After they have carried their riders fafe over al leaps, and through all dangers, what comes of the in the end but to be broken-winded ? L'Effrange 3. Sudden tranfition Wickednefs comes on by degrees, as well as virtue and fudden /eaps from one extreme to another ar unnatural L'Eftrange The commons wrefted even the power of chufing king intirely out of the hands of the nobles; whic was {o great a Jeap, and caufed fuch a convulfionin th ftate, that the conflitution could not bear Swvift 4. An affault of an animal of prey.The cat made a /eap at the moufe 6. Hazard [pleapan And woo your own deftruction Shakefpearc Behold that dreadful downfal ofa rock Where yon old fither views the waves from high *Tis the convenient /eap I mean to try. - Drydeit Skakefp loup Saxon 1. To jump; to move upward or progreffively without change of the feet IfI could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaultin into my faddle with my armour on, I fhould quickl Shake[peare's Henry V leap into a wife A man Jeapeth better with weights in his hand than without; for that the weight, if it be proportionable, ftrengtheneth the finews by contraétIn /leaping with weights, the arms ar ing them firfk caft backwards and then forwards with fo muc the greater force; for the hands go backward before they take their rife In a narrow pi He faw a lion, and /eap'd down to it Lzar-FroOG. 2. /. [leap and frog.] A pla of children, in which they imitate th jump of frogs IfT could win alady at /eap-frog, I thould quickl leap into a wife Shbakepeare's Henry V LEAP-YEAR in a commo Bacon Cowley hi throne firft of Marc be on Monday, it will on the nex year-be on Tuefday, but on leap-year it will Zea to Wednefday That the fun confifteth of 365 days and almof fix hours, wanting elever min hich fix hour omitted will, in procefs of time, largely deprave th compute; and this is the occafion of the biffextii Brown or leap-year took her in his arrs, till fhe came to herfelf again Lfthery xv. 8 He ruin upon ruin heaps Sandys And on me, like a furious giant, leaps Strait Jeaping from his horfe, he rais'd me up Rowe 3. To bound ; to {pring Rejoice ye in that day, and /eap for joy vi Lu {'1' I am warm'd 2 my hear Lcaps at the trumpet's voice, and burns for glory Addifon 4. To fly to ftart of fire leap out 7o LEARN 1 @. a. [leonnian, Saxon. To gain the knowledg or fkill of att. XXive 32 Learn a parable of the fig-tree. He, in a thorter time than was thought poffible learned both to fpeak and write the Arabian tongue Kuolles Learn, wretches | learn the motions of the A mind Dryden And the great moral end of humankind. You may rely upcn my tender care, To keep him far from perils of a All he can leara of me, will be to weep ! He parted frowning from me, as if rui Leap'd from his eyes: fo looks the chafed lio Upon the daring huntfman that has gall'd him Henry VIll Shake/p Then makes him nothing g Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and fpark Foby Wiv 19 day of the week is miffed ; as, if on one year th an After he went into the tent, and found her not Fudith, xiv. 7 he leaped out to the people year ha The reafon of the name of /leap-year is, tha changed the fpirit of the king into mildfro year: {0 that the commo ary hath 29 days, which in common years hath bu 28 To find the Zap-year you have this rul Divide by 4 ; what's left fhall b For /eap-year o 5 for paft 1, 2, 3 Harris 2. To rufh with vehemence in a fear leape # Leap-year or biflextile is every fourth year, an fo called from its /eaping a day more that year tha "Thrice from the ground fhe /eap'd, was feen t wiel Dryden's ZEneid Her brandifh'd lance nefs, wh or effe¢t of leaping Methinks, it were an eafy Jea To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon Shakefpeare You take a precipice for no /eap of danger whofe large ftyl Agrees not with the leannefs of his purfe Go L'Efirange How fhe cheats her bellowing lover's eye 3 The ruthing /eap, the doubtful progeny Dryden poverty thinnefs The poor king Reignier Scottifh. as beafts Lear. . /. [from the verb. 1. Bound; jump; a of leaping Arbutbrot liquid dejectures, leannefs, and weaknefs @, z Prior Too foon they muft not feel the fing of love Let him not /eap the cow Dryde s Georg univerfal fecretions, as of perfpiration, fweat, urine 7o Lear 5. Embrace of animals If thy Jeannefs loves fuch food There are thofe, that, for thy fake Ben Fonfon Do enough The fymptoms of too great fluidity are excets o 2 fees before his eyes the dep 2. Tocomprefs Farqubar Through rills of fat, and deluges of /ean to ;',J;J a gul She dares purfue, if they As their example ftill prevails She tempts the ftream, or Jeaps the pales razors keen we cut our paffage clea Wit is not of a conftitution Stops fhort bol arejpeare a Jean diflertation ma for the faving of his country L Efirange As one condemn'd to /eap a precipice not em not comprehenfive 4. Jejune dianus, by a lady leaning againtt a pillar, a fcepte Peacham on Drawing in her hand, before analtar oy Me: poor Ever Burnet and more earthy, like common water L' Eftrange {he could keep a fecret Security is exprefie There arc two chief kinds of terreftrial liquors light, and thofe that are /lea thofe that are fag an 3. Low 7o Lear. . a 1. To pafs over, or into, by leaping hungry thin 2. Not unétucus fo as to let wate in or out And fetch their precepts from the cynic tub water, which will perhaps by degrees lea Th LE Philips [It is obfervable, that i 2. To teach many of the Huropean languages th fame word fignifies to learn and to teach to gain or impart knowledge. fen{e is now obfolete 'Thi H |