494 Mr, Pickering on the present state of the English language 
quent at the present day, than it was when Dr. Witherspoon wrote, “Tt is 
still heard in conversation, but in writing every body avoids it, 
LEANTO, n. (commonly pronounced /inter.) “The part of a building which 
: appease to lean upon another.” Webst. It is not in Johnson; but Mason 
has it in his Supplement, where it is called an architectural term, and is 
defined thus: “A low shallow building joined to a higher,” which is the 
New England sense of it. 
LEASE, ». Used in some towns of New England thus: A cow-lease, that is, a 
right of apse for a cow, in a common pasture. Grose has the word, 
asa frovincialism of the West of England, : and remarks, that it is perhaps 
the same as /ees. 
LEGISL 
ATIVE. This, like the word Executive, is sometimes used in Amer- 
ica as a noun. “In the preface to the London edition of Ramsay’s History 
of the Revolution, it is classed among those American names, which the 
English “ have listened to without as yet adopting.” 
LENGTHY ; longish, somewhat long. This word has been very common in 
America, both in writing and in conversation ; but it has been so much 
ridiculed both by English and American critics, that our writers now avoid 
using H.- Mr. Webster has admitted it into his ictionary, but it 
be found in any ‘ofthe English ones. ‘Ttis: applied eas ie... 
remarks) chiefly to writings or discourses. 
pamphlet, a lengthy sermon, &c. 
Thus we should say, a lengthy 
The English would say, a long, 
or sometimes, a longish sermon : They make much more use of the 
termination ish than we do; but this is only in the language of conver- 
_ sation. Sometimes they use lengthened where our writers would hi ive em- 
ployed lengthy : “For the purpose of bestowing upon him, and upon all 
that belong to him a lengthened and elaborate eu 
logy.” Quarterly Rev. 
Jan. 
1814, p. 314. A learned English friend, who has been in this country 
several years, informs me that he has sometimes heard lengthy used in 
conversation in England. 
LIABRATY: This is is common use in the United States, 
but is not to be 
found in the — dictionaries, 
None of the lexicographers, indeed, have 
