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reedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple.

Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.

Characterized by leisure; taking abundant tome; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. [Obs.] Shak.

er habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant. Sir, my mistress sends you word THat she is busy, and she can not come. Shak.

To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth.

One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters. Shak.

To put off; to delay to act; to wait. Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure. J. A. Symonds.

The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.

Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness, n.

Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure. Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment. Bp. Butler.

To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.

mmand against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict. More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. Shak.

To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.

on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over. Jog on, jog on, the footpath way. Shak. So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot. Milton . The good old ways our sires jogged safely ov…

Leisurely. [Obs.] Hooker.

At leisure. [Obs.]

Leisure. [Obs.] Chaucer.