Chapter Legged to Lemon of L by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Leister
(Leis"ter, Lis"ter) n. A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish. [Scotland]

Leisurable
(Lei"sur*a*ble) a. [See Leisure.]

1. Leisurely. [Obs.] Hooker.

2. Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Leisurably
(Lei"sur*a*bly), adv. At leisure. [Obs.]

Leisure
(Lei"sure) n. [OE. leisere, leiser, OF. leisir, F. loisir, orig., permission, fr. L. licere to be permitted. See License.]

1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.

Sir W. Temple.

2. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.

He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.

Dryden.

At leisure. (a) Free from occupation; not busy. (b) In a leisurely manner; at a convenient time.

Leisure
(Lei"sure), a. Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

Leisured
(Lei"sured) a. Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.

Leisurely
(Lei"sure*ly) a. Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.

Leisurely
(Lei"sure*ly), adv. In a leisurely manner. Addison.

Leitmotif
(||Leit"mo*tif") n. [G.] (Mus.) See Leading motive, under Leading, a.

Leman
(Le"man) (le"man or lem"an; 277), n. [OE. lemman, lefman; AS. leóf dear + mann man. See Lief, and Man.] A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; — usually in a bad sense. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. Shak.

Leme
(Leme) n. [OE. leem, leme, leam, AS. leóma light, brightness; akin to E. light, n. &radic122.] A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Leme
(Leme), v. i. To shine. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Lemma
(Lem"ma) n.; pl. L. Lemmata E. Lemmas [L. lemma, Gr. lh^mma anything received, an assumption or premise taken for granted, fr. lamba`nein to take, assume. Cf. Syllable.] A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

Lemman
(Lem"man) n. A leman. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lemming
(Lem"ming) n. [Nor. lemming, lemende; cf. Sw. lemel, Lapp. lummik.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.

The common Northern European lemming (Myodes lemmus) is remarkable for making occasional devastating migrations in enormous numbers from the mountains into the lowlands.