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 LEA The water rufhcs in, 3s it cloth ufually in the leak of a j^jp Wilkins’s Mathematical Magick. Whether fhe fprung a leak I cannot find, Or whether (he was over fet with wind* Or that Tome rock below her bottom rent, But down at once with all her crew fhe went. Dry den. To Leak. v. n 1. To let water :n or out. They will allow us ne’er a jordan, and then we leak in your chimney. Shakefpeare. The water, which will perhaps by degrees leak into feveral parts, may be emptied out again. Wilkins's Math. Magick. His feet fhould be wafhed every day in cold water ; and have his fhoes lb thin, that they might leak, and let in water. Locke. 2. To drop through a breach. Golden liars hung o’er their heads, And Teemed To crowded, that they burft upon ’em, And dart at once their baleful influence In leaking fire. Dryden’s and Lee's Oedipus. Le'akage. n.f [from leak.] Allowance made for accidental lofs in liquid meafures. Le'aky. adj. [from leak.] 1. Battered or pierced, fo as to let water irt or out; Thou’rt fo leaky, That we muft leave thee to thy finking; for Thy deareft quit thee. Shakefp. Antony and Cleopatra. If you have not enjoy’d what youth could give, But life funk through you like a leaky fieve, Accufe yourfelf, you liv’d not while you might. Dryden. 2. Loquacious ; not clofe. Women are fo leaky, that I have hardly met with one that could not hold her breath longer than file could keep a fecret. L'EJlrange. To Le an. v. n. peter, leaned or leant. [Jjlinan, Saxon; lenen, Dutch.] 1. To incline againft; to reft againft. Lean thine aged back againft mine arm, And in that cafe I’ll tell thee my difeafe. Shakefpeare; Security is exprefled among the medals of Gordianus, by a lady leaning againft a pillar, a feepter in her hand, before an altar. Peachafn on Drawing'. The columns may be allowed fomewhat above their ordi¬ nary length, becaufe they lean unto fo good fupporters. Wott. Upon his iv’ry feeptre firft he leant, Then fhook his head, that fhook the firmament. Dryden. Opprefs’d with anguifh, panting and o’erfpeht, His fainting limbs againft an oak he leant. Dryden's JEn. If he be angry, all our other dependencies will profit us no¬ thing; every other fupport will fail under tis when we come to lean upon it, and deceive us in the day when we want it moft. Rogers’s Sermons. Then leaning o’er the rails he mufing flood. Gay. Mid the central depth of black’ning woods. High rais’d in folemh theatre around Leans the huge elephant. Thomfon’s Summer. 2. To propend ; to tend towards. They delight rather to lean to their old cuftoms, though they be more unjuft, and more inconvenient. Spenfer. Truft in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own underflanding. Prov. iii. 5* A defire leaning to either fide, biafles the judgment ftrange]y. Watts’s Improvement of the Mind. 3. To be in a bending pofture. She leans me out at her miftrefs’s chamber window, bids me a thoufand times good night. Shakefpeare. Wearied with length of ways, and worn with toil. She laid her down ; and leaning on her knees. Invok’d the caufe of all her miferies. Dryden* The gods came downward to behold the wars, Sharp’ning their fights, and leaning from their ftars. Dryd. Lean. adj. [plaene, Saxon.] 1. Not fat; meagre; wanting flefh; bare-bonedi You tempt the fury of my three attendants, Lean famine, quartering fteel, and climbing fire. Shakefp. Lean raw-bon’d rafeals ! who would e’er fuppofe, They had fuch courage and audacity ! Shakefpeare. Lean look’d prophets whifper fearful change. Shakef. I would invent as bitter fearching terms, With full as many figns of deadly hate. As lean-fac’d envy in her loathfome cave* Shakefpeare. Seven other kine came up out of the river, ill-favoured and /(ftftt-flcfhed. Gen. xli. 3. Let a phyfician beware how he purge after hard frofty wea¬ ther, and in a lean body, without preparation. Bacon. And fetch their precepts from the cynic tub, Praifing the lean, and fallow, abftinence. Alilton. Swear that Adraftus, and the lean-ook’d prophet. Are joint confpirators. Dryd. and Lee’s Oedipus. Lean people often fufter for want of fat, as fat people may by obftru&ion of the veflels. Arbuthnot on Aliments. No laughing graces wanton in my eyes ; But hagger’d grief, lean looking fallow care, I

LEA Dwell on my brow. Rowe’s Jane Short. 2. Not uiuSluous ; thin; huhgry. There are two chief kinds of terrefttial liquors, thofe that are fat and light, and thofe that are lean and more earthy, like common water. Burnet’s Theory of the Earths 3. Low ; poor ; in oppofition to great or rich. That which combin’d us was moft great, and let not A leaner action rend us. Shakef. Ant. and Cleopatra. Lean. n.f. That part of flefh which confifts of the mufcle without the fat. With razors keen we cut our paflage clearl Through rills of fat, and deluges of lean. Farquhar. Le'anly. adv. [from lean.] Meagerly ; without plumpnefs, Le'anness. n.f [from lean.] 1. Extenuation of body ; want of flefh ; meagrenefs. If thy leannefs loves fuch food, There are thofe, that, for thy fake, Do enough. Benj. Johnfon’s Forefl The fymptoms of too great fluidity are excefs of univerfal fecretions, as of perfpiration, fweat, urine, liquid dejedlures, leannefs, and weaknefs. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 2. Want of bulk. The poor king Reignier, whofe large flyle Agrees not with the leannefs of his purfe. Shakefpeare. To Leap. v. n. [Jdeapan, Saxon; loup, Scottifh.] !• ^ 0 jump ; to move upward or progreflively without change of the feet. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaulting into my faddle with my armour on, I fhould quickly leap into a wife. Shakefpeare’s Henry V. A man leapeth better with weights in his hands than with¬ out ; for that the weight, if it be proportionable, ftrengtheneth the finews by contradling them. In leaping with weights the arms are firft call backwards and then forwards with fo much the greater force; for the hands go backward before they take their rife. Bacon’s Nat. Hijl, In a narrow pit He faw a lion, and leap’d down to it. Cowley’s Davideis. Thrice from the ground fhe leap’d, was feen to wield Her brandifh’d lance. Dryden’s JEn. 2. To rufh with vehemence; God changed the fpirit of the king into mildnefs, who in a fear leaped from his throne, and took her in his arms, till . fhe came to herfelf again. Ejlh. xv; 8. After he went into the tent, and found her not, he leaped Out to the people. Judith x’ivi 17. He ruin upon ruin heaps. And on me, like a furious giant, leaps. Sandys. Strait leaping from his horfe he rais’d me up; Rowe. 3. To bound; to fpring. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy. Luke vi. 23. I am warm’d, my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice, and burns for glory. Addifon. 4. To fly; to ftart. He parted frowning from me, as if ruin Leap'd from his eyes : fo looks the chafed lion Upon the daring huntfman that has gall’d him ; Then makes him nothing. Shakef. Henry VIII. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and fparks of fire leap out. Job xli. 19. To Leap. v. a. 1. To pafs over, or into, by leaping. Every man is not of a conflitution to leap a gulf for the faving of his country. L'EJlrange. As one condemn’d to leap a precipice, Who fees before his eyes the depth below, Stops fhort. Dryden s Spanifh Friar. She dares purfue, if they dare lead: As their example ftill prevails, She tempts the ftream, or leaps the pales. Prior. 2. To comprefs ; as beafts. Too foon they muft not feel the fling of love t Let him not leap the cow. Dryden's Georg. Leap, n.f [from the verb;] 1. Bound; jump; a£t of leaping. 2. Space palled by leaping. After they have carried their riders fafe over all leaps, and through all dangers, what comes of them in the end but to be broken-winded; L'EJlrange. 3. Sudden tranfitiom Wickednefs comes on by degrees, as well as virtue ; and fudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural. L’EJlrange's Fables. The commons wrefted even the power of chuling a king intirely out of the hands of the nobles ; which was lb great a leap, and caufed luch a convulfion in the Hate, that the conflitution could not bean SiviJ't. 4. An aflault of an animal of prey. I he cat mads, a leap at the moufe. L’EJlrange. 5. Embrace of animals. How fhe cheats her bellowing lovers eye ; 1 he ruihing leap, the doubtful progeny. Dryden's Ain. b Hazard,