Leatherwood
(Leath"er*wood`), n. (Bot.) A small branching shrub with a white, soft wood, and a tough,
leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; — called also moosewood, and
wicopy. Gray.
Leathery
(Leath"er*y) a. Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin."
Grew.
Leave
(Leave) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leaving] To send out leaves; to leaf; —
often with out. G. Fletcher.
Leave
(Leave), v. t. [See Levy.] To raise; to levy. [Obs.]
An army strong she leaved.
Spenser. Leave
(Leave), n. [OE. leve, leave, AS. leáf; akin to leóf pleasing, dear, E. lief, D. oorlof leave, G. arlaub,
and erlauben to permit, Icel. leyfi. &radic124. See Lief.]
1. Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
David earnestly asked leave of me.
1 Sam. xx. 6.
No friend has leave to bear away the dead.
Dryden. 2. The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; — used chiefly in the phrase,
to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
A double blessing is a'double grace;
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
Shak.
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren.
Acts xviii.
18. French leave. See under French.
Syn. — See Liberty.
Leave
(Leave), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Left (left); p. pr. & vb. n. Leaving.] [OE. leven, AS. lfan, fr. laf
remnant, heritage; akin to lifian, libban, to live, orig., to remain; cf. belifan to remain, G. bleiben, Goth.
bileiban. &radic119. See Live, v.]
1. To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.
Gen. ii. 24. 2. To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or
changed.
If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes ?
Jer. xlix. 9.
These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matt. xxiii. 23.
Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed.
Bacon. 3. To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
Now leave complaining and begin your tea.
Pope.
