Lean

len. v. i. [leaned (lend) or leant (lent), leaning.] To deviate from a perpendicular position or line; to be in a position thus deviating; to incline in to opinion, conform in conduct; to bend; to depend for support, comfort, etc. — v.t. To cause to lean, incline, support or rest.— Lean'-to, -too, n. A building whose rafters pitch or lean against another building; a wall, etc. to, or Lean, len, a. Wanting in flesh; bare; barren; barren of thoughts; jejune; low; poor; thin; meager; lank; without skinny; fat. gaunt.'— n. The muscular part of flesh, v. as Leap, lep, v. i. [leaped (lept) rarely leapt (15pt),; leaping.] To spring from the ground, jump, vault; to make a sudden jump, bound, skip; to manifest joy or vivacity. — v. t. To pa over try leaping; to copulate with, cover. — n. Act of leaping; a jump; spring; bound; space pa ed by leaping; a hazardous a or venturesome act; copulation with a female beast. a — Leap'er, n. — Leap'-frog, n. A play among boys, in which one stoops and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former. — year, n. Bi extile; a year containing 366 days; every 4th year, which leaps over a day more than n. a common year, giving to February 29 days.; Learn, ISrn, v. t. [learned (lernd) or learnt (ISrnt), learning.] Orig., to teach (obs.); to acquire new knowledge or ideas from or concerning; to acquire skill in anything, —v. i. To receive information, intelligence, instruction, or knowledge. — Learn'ing, n. Knowledge of principles or tacts received by instruction or study, or acquired by experience, experiment, or observation; erudition; lore; scholarship; letters. I Lease, les, n. A letting of lands, tenements, or herej ditaments to another for life, for a term of years, | or at will, for a specified rent or compensation; writ-! ten contract for such letting; tenure Dy grant or permi ion; time for which such tenure holds good. —! v. t. [leased (lest), leasing.] To grant temporary po e ion of lands, etc., for rent; to let.— Le ee'', -se/r, n. (Law.) One who takes an estate by lease. — Les's or, -sor, n. One who gives a lease. — Lease'hold, a. Held by lease. — n. A tenure held by lease.