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A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

Letting alone. The let-alone principle, doctrine, or policy. (Polit. Econ.) See Laissez faire.

A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.

l or parallactic libration, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere.

A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whol…

A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson. To give a loose, to give freedom. Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. Addison.

One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]

To take in the gross; to speak of collectively. Not forgetting all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment you, I lump all together. Sterne.

Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.

or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.

The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage. [Obs.]

begin war, and explaining his motives. Bouvier. it was proposed to draw up a manifesto, setting forth the grounds and motives of our taking arms. Addison . Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the Empire against the insolent pretensions of the pope. Milman.

e twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting. Marline spike, Marling spike (Naut.), an iron tool tapering to a point, used to separate the strands of a rope in splicing and in marling. It has an eye in the thick end to which a lanyard is attached. See Fid. [Written al…

est point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. Shak.

th of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. Mesh stick, a stick on which the mesh is formed in netting.

The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.

To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said. When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. Lock…

One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.