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Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.

Leafless. [Obs.] Carew.

makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke xii. 1.

The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven.

Containing leaven. Milton.

One who leaves, or withdraws.

pl. of Leaf.

Leafiness.[Obs.]

Things left; remnants; relics.

Leafy. [Obs.] Chapman.

Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.

In a leaking condition.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia. Balearic crane. (Zoöl.) See Crane.

See under 3d Bay.

d with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.