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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.

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

idue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. Tennyson.

A killer of men; a manslayer. [Obs.] Carew.

s marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

th or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack. Carew.

Wheat not bearded. Carew.

To set about; to begin. [Obs.] Carew.

To make too empty; to exhaust. [R.] Carew.

To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument. Carew.

A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed. [Obs.] Carew.

ion of on a plan; to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew.

To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop." Shak.

; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew.

To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish. [Obs.] Carew.

numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. Carew.

Priority of place in sitting.[Obs.] Carew.