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lifted, in 1773, a volume of Praftical Obfervalions on 
Child-bed Fever; and, in 1774, A Lefture introductory 
to the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, including the 
Hiftory, Nature, and Tendency, of that Science, &c. This 
was afterwards conliderably altered and enlarged, and 
publifted in two volumes, under the title of Medical In- 
ftrurtions towards the Prevention and Cure of various 
Difeafes incident to Women, &c. The work patted 
through feven or eight editions, and was Jranflated into 
the French and German languages. In the beginning of 
1792, a ftort time before his death, he publifted A prac¬ 
tical Ell ay on the Difeafes of the Vifcera, particularly 
thofe of the Stomach and Bowels. Hutchinfon's Biog. Med. 
LE'AKING, f. The ad of letting out contained wa¬ 
ter; the art of letting in water. 
LE'AKY, adj. Battered or pierced, fo as to let water 
in or out: 
Thou art fo leaky, 
That we mutt leave thee to thy finking; for 
Thy deareft quit thee. Shakefpeare. 
If you have not enjoy’d what youth could give. 
But life funk through you like a leaky fieve, 
Accufe yourfelf you liv’d not while you might. Dtyden. 
Loquacious; not clofe.—Women are fo leaky, that I have 
hardly'met with one that could not hold her breath longer 
than file could keep a fecret. L’EJlrange. 
LEAM, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of Gal¬ 
way, fituated on the fouth fide of Lough Corib: fixteen 
miles well-north-weft of Galway. 
LEAM, a river in Northamptonlhire, riling from a 
fpringat Helliden, called the Little-Down ; haftens by Ca- 
telby and Staverton into Wanvicklhire, where it gives 
name to the two Lemingtons, and then lofes both its wa¬ 
ter and name in the Oule. 
LEAM (New), a river in Cambridgelhire, runs north- 
eaft from Peterborough, to Waterfey, between Whittle- 
Fey-Dike and Wilbeach. 
LEAM, f. with hunters, a lealh. Urry. 
LE'AM-CHOU'I-HO', a town of Chinefe Tartary : 
thirty-feven miles fouth-weft of Ning-yuen-tcheou. 
LE'AM-KIAN-SAM', a town of Chinefe Tartary: 
forty-two miles fouth of Poro. 
LE'AM-LE'AM, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Pe-tche-li: fifteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. 
LE'AM-YOM'-HO'TUN, a town of Corea: fix hun¬ 
dred miles ealt-north-eaft of Pekin. Lat.42.20. N. Ion. 
128. 46. E. 
LE'AM-YU'EN, a towm of China, of the third rank, 
in Pe-tche-li: fifteen miles north of Chunte. 
LE'AMER,_/i [from leami] A kind of hound. Urry. 
LEAN, adj. [hlasne, Sax.] Not fat; meagre; wanting 
flelli; bareboned.— Lean people often fuffer for want of 
fat, as fat people may by obllruttion of the veffels. Ar- 
buthnot. 
You tempt the fury of my three attendants, 
Lean famine, quartering fteel, and climbing fire. Shakefp. 
Not unctuous ; thin ; hungry.—There are two chief kinds 
of terreftrial liquors, thole that are fat and light, and 
thofe that are lean and more earthy, like common w'ater. 
Burnet. —Low ; poor ; in oppofition to great or rick : 
That which combin'd us was molt great, and let not 
A leaner artion rend us. Shakefpeare. 
Jejune; not comprehenfive ; not embellilhed ; as, a lean 
diflertation. 
LEAN, f. That part of fielh which confiftsof the muf- 
cle without the fat : 
With razors keen we cut our paflage clean 
Through rills of fat, and deluges of lean. Farquhar. 
To LEAN, v. n. prefer, leaned or leant: [hhnan, Sax. 
lenen, Dut.] To incline againft ; to reft againft.—Secu¬ 
rity is exprefied upon the medals of Gordianus, by a 
lady leaning againft a pillar, a feeptre in her hand, before 
an altar. Peackam on Drawing. —If God be angry, all our 
other dependencies will profit us nothing; every other 
fupport will fail under us when we come to lean upon it, 
and deceive us in the day when we want it molt. Rogers, 
Mid the central depth of black’ning words, 
Nigh rais’d in folemn theatre around 
Leans the huge elephant. Thomfon. 
To propend ; to tend towards.—They delight rather to 
lean to their old cuftoms, though they be more unjuft, 
and more inconvenient. Spenfer. —A defire leaning to ei¬ 
ther fide, biafles the judgment ftrangely. Watts. —To be 
in a bending pofture.—She leans me out at her miftrefs’s 
chamber-window, bids me a thoufand times good night. 
Shakefpeare. 
Wearied with length of ways, and worn with toil. 
She laid her down ; and, leaning on her knees. 
Invok’d the caufe of all her miferies. Dryden. 
LEAN-CHAN', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Se-tchuen : thirty-two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Ta. 
LE'AN-FACED, adj. Having a meagre face. 
LE'AN-FLESHED, adj. Meagre in fleft. 
LE'AN-LOOKED, adj. Looking lean, having little ap¬ 
pearance of flefli. Dryden. 
LEAN-TO', f. in architecture; a low fhallow build¬ 
ing joining to a higher. 
LE'AN-WIT'TED, adj. Of (hallow underftanding.— 
And thou a lunatic lean-witled fool. Shakefp. Rich. II. 
LEAN'DER, a French capuchin-friar, was a native of 
Dijon, where he died in the year 1667. He was the au¬ 
thor of various works, by which he acquired a high re¬ 
putation in his day ; and he is frequently quoted by Du- 
pin. The principal of his productions (till held in efteem 
are, x. The Truths of the Gofpel, &c. 2 vols. folio, 1661 
and 1692. 2. Commentaria in Epiftolas Divi Pauli, 2 vols. 
folio, 1663. 3. Difcurfus prsedicabiles, 2 vols. folio, 
1665. Moreri. 
LEAN'DER, a youth of Abydos, famous for his 
amours with Hero, which fee, vol. ix. p. 817. 
LE'ANG-TANG', a town of China, of the third rank,, 
in Chen-fi : feventeen miles north-eaft of Oei. 
LEANING, The aCt of reclining. 
LE'ANLY, adv. Meagrely ; without plumpnefs. 
LEANNESS, f. Extenuation of body ; want of flefii ; 
meagrenefs.—The fymptoms of too great fluidity are ex¬ 
cels of univerfal lecretions, as of perfpiration, fweat, 
urine, liquid dejertures, leannefs, and weaknefs. Arbuthnot. 
If thy leannefs loves fuch food. 
There are thofe, that, for thy fake. 
Do enough. Ben Jonfon. 
Want of matter ; thinnefs ; poverty : 
The poor king Reignier, whofe large ftyle 
Agrees not with the leannefs of his purfe. Shakefpeare . 
LEA'O,/. A mineral fubftance, approaching to the 
nature of the lapis lazuli, found in the Eaft Indies, and 
of great ufe in the Chinefe porceiain-manufarture, being 
the fined blue they are poflefled of. This (tone is found 
in the ftrata of pit-coal, or in thofe of a yellowifh or red- 
difli earth in the neighbourhood of the veins of coal. 
When pieces of it are found on the furface of the ground, 
it is afure indication that more will be found on digging. 
It is generally met with in oblong pieces of the fize of a 
finger, not round, but flat. Some of this is very fine, and 
forne coarfe, and of a bad colour. The latter is very com¬ 
mon, but the fine fort is fcarce, and greatly valued. It 
is not eafy to diftinguifii them at fight, but they are found 
by experiment, and the trying one piece is generally fuf- 
ficient for judging of the whole mine ; for all that is 
found in the lame place is ufually of the lame fort. Their 
manner of preparing it for ufe is this; They firft wa(h 
it very clean, to feparate it from the earth, or any other 
foulnefs it may have; they then lay it at the bottom of 
their baking-furnaces ; and, when it has been thus cal- 
