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Leaves, collectively; foliage.

A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

Union by league; alliance. [Obs.]

Libertinism; license. [R.]

The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.

See Lineage. [Obs.] Holland.

common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. Both the lineage and the certain sire From which I sprung, from me are hidden yet. Spenser.

The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.

Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An officer who commanded a company; a captain. Mitford.

Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.

Pilotage. [Obs.]

An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.

s lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents. I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift. What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage! Shak.

A magician. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator. Magellenic clouds (Astron.), three conspicuous nebulæ near the south pole, resembling thin white clouds.

nze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. [Obs.] Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold. Bacon. Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak. The unlucky manage of this fatal braw…

The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.