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t. xxiii. 23. Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed. Bacon.

That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.

Light; slender; slim; trivial. [Obs. except in special phrases.] Bacon. Leger line (Mus.), a line added above or below the staff to extend its compass; -- called also added line.

community; a member of a legislative body. The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips.

To assuage; to soften; to Bacon. Dryden.

The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale. Bacon.

To forbear. [Obs.] Bacon.

o be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law. Bacon.

the wine or liquid thus poured out. Dryden. A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth. Bacon.

s a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver. " Liberal of praise." Bacon. Infinitely good, and of his good As liberal and free as infinite. Milton.

Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.

The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift. Bacon.

friends, best masters . . . but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away. Bacon.

t; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon.

or it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.

rine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. Bacon.

To grease. [Obs.] Bacon. Liquor fishermen's boots. Shak.

es, books, articles; a list of ratable estate. He was the ablest emperor of all the list. Bacon.

ollowed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon.

r cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. Bacon. Loaf sugar, refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.