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Show LB as, the deteftable Wha "The fweet swoman /Jeads an il life with him Shake[peare So fhalt thou lea Safefe/thy life, and beft prepar'd endur Th Milton Thy mortal paffage when it comes Him, fair Lavinia, thy furviving wif Shall breed in groves, to Jead a folitary life. Dryden Luther's life was /ed up to the doctrines h preached, and his death was the death of the righte ur er At nc Fr ous Celibacy, gs then pra@ifedin the church of Rome vo bo e un u e ta ce fo l o m c wa Francis Atterbury and /ed in all'uncleannefs This diftemper is moft incident to fuch as /Zead Arbuthnot on Aliments fedentary life To LEAD.. v. 7 1. To go firt, and thow the way goeth before me, and the children, be able to endure Gen. xxxlll 2. To condu& as a commander Cyrus was beaten and flain under the leading of avoman, whofe wit and condu¢t made a great figure Temple 3. To fhew the way, by going firft LEaD. n /. [from the verb.] Guidance firft place : alow defpicable word Yorkfhire takes the Zead of the other counties Herring Lr'apen. adj. [leaben, Saxon. 1. Made of lead This tiger-footed rage, when it fhall fin The harm of unfkann'd fwiftnefs, will, too late Shakefpeare "Tye leaden pounds to 's heels O murth'rous flumber Lay'ft thou the Jeaden mace upon my boy Shakefp. Fulius Cafar *That plays thee mufick A leaden bullet thot from one of thefe guns againf a fone wall, the fpace of twenty-four paces from it Wilkins will be beaten into a thin plate 2. Heavy ; unwilling ; motionlefs ments participial adj LEADING Principal chief'; capital e f b e a a o p a i w In oréanizgd bodie a a c f m a y i a q i a l the fhape is th e c L s i e f t e i r t d a t r teriftical p rp a i p o n u f i t o Miftakes arife f a e m i a l e i f e fons, upon g 1 1 1 5 s parti n r f / LEA by whic String children whe. the Le ADMAN. #. /. [Jead and man. who begins or leads a dance dull Pl firive with troubled thoughts to take a nap Left Jeaden flumber poize me down to-morrow ‘When I fhould mount with wings of vitory Shake[peare L ADER. 7. /. [from /ead. On 2. Captain ; commander In my ten Tl draw the form and model of our battle Limit each /eader to his feveral charge And part in juft proportion our fmall firength Saw you never And by Jeadmen for the nonce That turn round like grindle ftones en Fonfon Le apWORT. #. /. [Jead and awort5 plumA flower bago. LEAF. n. /. leaves, plural. [leay, Saxon leaf, Dutch. 1. The green deciduous parts of plant and flowers This is the ffate of man ; to-day he puts fort The tender leawes of hopes, to-morrow bloffoms Skake[peare A man fhall feldom fail of having cherries born by his graft the fame year in which his incifion i made, if his graft have bloffom buds ; whereas i it were only /eaf buds, it will not bear fruit till th fecond feafon Boyle Thofe things which are removed toa diftant view ought to make but one mafs; as the /eaes on th trees, and the billows in the fea Dryden 2. A part ofa book, containing two pages Happy ye /eaves, when as thofe lily hand Shall handle you Spenfer Perufe my /eaves through ev'ry part And.think thou feeft my owner's hear Swift The two leawes of the one door were folding 1 Kings 4. Any thing foliated, or thinly beaten Eleven ounces two pence fterling ought to be o fo-pure filver, as is called /eaf filver, and then th melter muft add of other weight feventeen penc halfpenny farthing Camden ) Leaf gold, that flies in the air as light as down is as truly gold as that in an ingot Digby Shake[peare 1 have given him for a Jeader and commander t Ifaiab, 1v. 4 the pecple Thofe efcaped by flight, not without a fharp jef as they ha followed them into the field, fo it was good reafo they thould follow them. out When our Lycians fe Qur brave examples, they admiring fay Behold our gallant Jeaders \ The brave leader of the Lycian crew 3. One who goes firft Nay, keep your way, little gallant wont to be a follower, now you are a/eader Hayward T Moft tress fall off the leaves at autumn; an if not kept back by cold, wonld /leaf about th folftice Le‘arvess, adj leaves [from leaf. Brown Naked o Bare honefty, without fome other adornment being looked on as a leaflefs tree, nobody will tak himfelf toits fhelter Gowernment of the Tongue Where doves in flocks the /eaflefs trees o'erfh':de A,nd lonely woodcocks haunt the wat'ry glade. Pope LE'arY. adj. [from leaf. Full of leaves The frauds of men were ever {o Denbam Dryden yo wer Shake[p 4. One at the head of any party or fadtion Since fummer was firlt /eafy Shake[peare What chance, good lady, hath bereft you thus ~-Dim darknefs, and this /eafy labyrinth Milton O'er barren mountains, o'er the flow'ry plain The Jeafy foreft, and the liquid main Extends thy uncontroul'd and boundlefs reign So when fome fwelt'ring travellers retir To leafy fhades, near the cool funlefs verg Of Paraba, Brafilian ftream ; her tai Philips A grifly hydra fuddenly fhoots forth LeaGUE . f. [ligue, French ; ligo, Lat. A confederacy ; a combination either o intereft or friendfhip You peers, continue this united league 1 every day expeét an embaflag to redeem me hence From my Redeemer And. now in peace my foul fhall part to heay'n Since I have made my friends at peace on earth Shakefpeare What the conditions of that feague muft be S/:ake,@k fhalt be in league with the ftomes of th Tho field; and the beafts of the field fhall be at peac Fob with thee Go break thy league with Baafha depart from me that he ma 2 Chron. xvi. 3 It is a great error, and a narrownefs of mind, t think Zo Liear. @. n [from the noun. bring leaves; to bear leaves 1. One that leads, or conduls Perch'dintheboughs. clean.sh data import.tsv out README Dryden's Flower and Leaf tha nation have nothin t d on wit another, except there be either an union in fove 3. One fide ofa double door If be be leaden, icy, cold, unwilling Sbakefpeare's Richard 111 Be thou fo too That hofts of birds, that wing the liquid air, We come to be informed by yourfelves n o g a n f t e t e c f r f m Sou Like leading-firings, till they can walk alone. Dryd s n r f gi a l o t w l w t l a e Was he e or fwim withour bladders, without being difcovere Swwift by his hobbling and his finking Scrawl'd o'er with trifles If thou do'ft find him traable to us Eneourage him, and tell him all our reafons that y _ l ? e e k t o g t f s e three or four Jea ?wz Such a light and mettled danc He left his mother a countefs by patent, whic avas a new leading example, grown before fomewha Wotto yare The way of maturing of tobacco muft be fro the heat of the earth or fun ; we fee fome keadin "of this in mufk-melons fown upon a hot-bed dunge Bacon below The veffels heavy-laden put to fe ‘With profp'rous gales, a woman /eads the way Dryden affirmin underftanding b of a fenate are enflave learn to walk, are held from falling I will Zezd on foftly, according as the cattle tha againft -their /oaders of the whigs Her leafy arms with fuch extent were fpread ~ E 3. Heavy LE Dryden reignty, or a conjunction in pats or Jeagues: thers are other bands of fociety and implicit confedera tions Bacon's &{y War 1, a private perfon, whom my countr As a league breaker gave up bound, prefum' Single rebellion, and did hoftile aéts Miltors Oh Tyrians, with immortal hat Purfue this hated-race : and let there b >Twixt us and them no leagze nor amity. Denbam 7o LEAGUE derate w. n 'T'o unite to confe Where fraud and falthood invade fociety, th band prefently breaks, and men are put to a lof where to Jeague and to faften their dependances SOZ&:Z' Leacuk. n. /. [Vieuz, French. 1. A league ; /ewca, Latin ; from leck Wellth ; a ftone that was ufed to be ere ed at the end of every league. Camden. 2. A meafure of length, containing thre miles Ere the fhips could meet by twice five Jeagwes We were encount'red by a mightyrock. Shakefpearca Ev'n Itdly, though many a league remote In diftant echoes anfwer'd Addifors Le'aGUED. adj. [from league.] Confede rated And now thus Jeagu'd by an eternal bond What fhall retard the Britons bold defigns? Philips Lr'acuer #. [belsggeren Dutch. Siege; inveftment of a town We will bind and hoodwink him fo, that he fhal fuppofe no other but that he is carried into tha leaguer of the adverfaries, when we bring him t our own tents Shakefpeare LEAK. u. [ [leck, lete, Dutch. or hole which lets in water A breac There will be always evils, which no art of man can cure : breaches and /eaks more than man's wit hath hands to ftop Hookers The water rufhes in, as it doth ufually in th Jeak of a fhip ‘Whether fhe fprung a /ea 1 cannot find Wilkinss Or whether fhe was overfet with wind Or that fome rock below her bottom rent But down at once with all her crew fhe went 7o LEAk. v. 2 r. To let water in or out Dryd They will allow us ne'er a Jordan, and then w leak in your chimney Shalkefpeare His feet fhould be wafhed every day in cold wa- ter; and have his fhoes fo thin, that they migh leak, and let in water s Locke 2. To drop through a breach, or difcontinuity Th < Pa j |