leakiness

[Eng. leaky; -ne .] The quality or state of being leaky. leak-ý, a. [Eng. leak; -y.] 1. Lit .: Admitting or allowing the pa age of water or other liquid or fluid; not water-tight. *2. Fig .: Talkative, loquacious; apt to disclose secrets; given to tattling or blabbing. "Whate'er he hears his leaky tongue runs out." Hamilton: Horace, bk. i., epist. 18. lēal, a. [O. Fr.] Loyal, true. [LOYAL.] "A loving heart and a' leal within Is better than gowd or gentle kin." Scott: Rob Roy, ch. xxxvi. Land of the leal: Heaven. The final home of the faithful. [LAND.] *leal-ne , s. [Eng. leal ; -ne .] The quality or state of being leal or loyal; loyalty, fidelity. *leam (1), *lēme, s . [A. S. leoma; Icel. liomi.] A ray, a gleam or flash of light. IMG:content-0442.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0443.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0444.png:[blocks in formation] Let him not leap the cow, nor mount the mare." Dryden: Virgil ; Georgic 1ii. 328. leap (1), *leape, s. [A. S. hlýp ; cogn. with Icel. hlaup a leap; Ger. lauf =a course.] (2) The space pa ed over or cleared by leaping. *(3) The act of copulating; copulation. 1. Ord . Lang.: Having a thin, lean face. 2. Print.: Applied to type with unusually thin fish. "The fishers lay their leapes in the deepe." Breton: Fantastickes ; October. "Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield." Pope: E ay on Man , iii. 173. 2. To find out; to ascertain by inquiry. "Let's go learn the truth of it." A. As pa . par . ( of both forms): (See the verb.) B. As adj . ( of the form learn-ed): "And she is prating learnedly Of logic and of chemistry." other end being fastened to a rod or lever, to which all the other leashes of the same set are also at- tached; a heddle. lēash, v . t . [LEASH, s.] To bind; to hold or fasten by a string. Leasht in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Shakesp.: Henry V. (Prol.) *lēaş-ing, *les-inge, *les-ynge, s. [A. S. leás- lie, a falsehood. IMG:content-0445.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0446.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0447.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0448.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0449.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0450.png:[blocks in formation] ing noise it sometimes makes. The carapace is covered with a dense, coriaceous skin. They grow to a great size. Habitat, the Atlantic and the Med- IMG:content-0451.png:[blocks in formation] leather