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LEAVE, n.
1. Permission; allowance; license; liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed.
No friend has leave to bear away the dead.
David earnestly asked leave of me. 1Sam. 20.
2. Farewell; adieu; ceremony of departure; a formal parting of friends; used chiefly in the phrase to take leave. Acts 18.
LE'AVED, a. from leaf; but leafed would be preferable.
1. Furnished with foliage or leaves.
2. Having a leaf, or made with leaves or folds; as a two-leaved gate.
LEAVES, n. plu. of leaf.
LE'AVING, ppr. Quitting; withdrawing from; relinquishing; suffering to remain; ceasing; desisting from.
LE'AVINGS, n. plu.
1. Things left; remnant; relics.
The leavings of Pharsalia.
2. Refuse; offal.
"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read" —Isaiah 34:16, KJV
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