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Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go. A double blessing is a'double grace; Occasion smiles upon a second leave. Shak. And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his l…

Leafless. [Obs.] Carew.

direction. Left-handed marriage, a morganatic marriage. See Morganatic. -- Left-handed screw, a screw constructed to advance away from the observer, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed.

The quality of being legible; legibleness. Sir. D. Brewster.

order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.

ge. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. Luke xxiii. 38.

ver. -- Surveyor's level, a telescope, with a spirit level attached, and with suitable screws, etc., for accurate adjustment, the whole mounted on a tripod, for use in leveling; -- called also leveling instrument. -- Water level, an instrument to show the level by means the surface of water in a trough, or in upright…

ent, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.

Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.

hem, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

A lientery. Grew.

A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.

g vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery. Lighter screw (Mach.), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.

ounteth very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto. Carew. Till coffee has her stomach lined. Swift.

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. The room with volumes littered round. Swift.

uth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier than erewhile He seems. Milton.

cart. Gascoigne. I have loaden me with many spoils. Shak. Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house. Shak.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. W. H. Ward.

The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness.