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One who leases or gleans. [Obs.] Swift.

m 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.

To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.

(Naut.), a first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage. -- Smooth log (Naut.), a clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government. -- To heave the log (Naut.), to cast the log-chip into the water; also, the whole process of ascertaining a…

To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease. Void of care, he lolls supine in state. Dryden.

To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively. My toes look through the overleather. Shak.

To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship. Marryat.

To clean from lice. "You sat and loused him." Swift.

chment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. Milton.

To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify. We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city. Hammond.

ch cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.

To make lean; to cause to waste away. [Obs. or R.] Harvey.

Leanness.[Obs.] Sandys.

Lean; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.

an may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.

Pining; lean; withered. Dryden.

The state or quality of being withered or lean. [R.]

ic of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.