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by the rcfmantic cattle-like rock of St. John. Below 
this, the vale contracts into a deep craggy dell, through 
which Leathes-water rolls, till it joins the Greeta at New¬ 
bridge, under the foot of Threlkeld-fell, a gloomy moun¬ 
tain of dark dun rocks, that flints up the view of the 
fweet fpreading vale of St. John. Guide to the Lakes. 
LE'ATON, a village near Wolverhampton in Stafford- 
fhire; in a field belonging to which a quantity of lead- 
ore is produced, in a yellowifti ttone, mixed with cauk 
and fpar. 
LEAU, a town of France, in the department of the 
Dyle, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Lou¬ 
vain. The place contains 715, and the canton 6264, in¬ 
habitants, on a territory of 975 kiliometres, in 13 com¬ 
munes. 
LEAVE, f. [lepe, Sax. from lypan, to grant.—Grant 
of liberty; permiflion; allowance.—I mutt have leave to 
be grateful to any who ferves me, let him be never fo ob¬ 
noxious to any party; nor did the tory party put me to 
the hardfhip of afking this leave. Pope. 
Offended that we fought without his leave, 
He takes this time his fecret hate to (hew. Dryden. 
Farewel; adieu; permiflion to depart.—Take leave and 
part, for you mutt part forthwith. Shakefpeare. —There is 
further compliment of leave- taking between France and 
him. Shakefpeare's King Lear. 
Here my father comes; 
A double bleffing is a double grace; 
Occafion fmiles upon a fecond leave. Shakefpeare. 
To LEAVE, v. a. pret. I left-, I have left. —To quit; to 
forfake.—A man (hall leave his father and his mother, and 
cleave to his wife. Gen. ii. 24. 
If they love lees, and leave the lufty wine, 
Envy them not their palates with the fwine. Ben Jonfon. 
To defert; to abandon.—He that is of an unthankful 
mind, will leave him in danger that delivered him. Ecclus. 
xxix. 17.—To depart from, without aftion: as, I left 
things as I found them.—When they were departed from 
him, they left him in great difeafes. 2 Chron. xxiv. 25.— 
To have remaining at death.-—There be of them that 
have left a name behind them. Ecclus. xliv. 8.—Not to de¬ 
prive of.—They ftill have left me the providence of God, 
and all the promifes of the gofpel, and ray charity to them 
too. Taylor. —To buffer to remain.—Thefe things mutt be 
left uncertain to farther difeoveries in future ages. Abbot. 
—Not to carry away.—Vaftius gave ftrift commandment, 
that they fhould leave behind them unnecelfary baggage. 
Knolles. —To reject; not to choofe: 
In all the common incidents of life, 
I am fuperior; I can take or leave. Steele. 
To fix as a token or remembrance.—This I leave with 
my reader, an occafion for him to confider how much he 
may be beholden to experience. Locke. —To bequeath; to 
give as inheritance: 
That peace thou leav'f to thy imperial line, 
That peace, O happy fltade 1 be ever thine. Dryden. 
To give up; to refign.—If a wife man were left to him- 
felf, and his own choice, to wifh the greateft good to him- 
felf he could devife; the l'um of all his wifhes would be 
this, That there were juft fuch a being as Q°d is. Ti/lot- 
fon. —To perm'it without interpofition.—Whether Ebau 
were a vaflal, I leave the reader to judge. Locke. —To ceabe 
to do; to defift from.—Let us return, left my father leave 
caring for the affes, and take thought for us. 1 Sam. ix. 5. 
To Leave off. To defift from; to forbear.—If, upon 
any occafion, you bid him leave off the doing of any thing, 
you mutt be bure to carry the point. Locke. —To forbake. 
—He began to leave off borne of his old acquaintance, his 
roaring and bullying about the ftreets: he put on a fe- 
rious air. Arbuthnot. 
To Lkavb out. To omit; to negleft.—What is bet 
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down by order and divifion doth demonftrate, that no¬ 
thing is left out or omitted. Bacon. 
Let all thy dues be done, and none left out, 
Ere the nice morn on Indian fteep 
From her cabin’d loop-hole peep. Milton. 
To LEAVE, v. n. To ceabe ; to defift—He began at 
the eldeft, and left at the youngeft. Ger.efs. 
And, fince this bufinebs fo far fair is done. 
Let us not leave till all our own be won. Shakefpeare. 
To Leave off. To defift.-—Grittus, hoping that they 
in the caftle would not hold out, left off to batter or un¬ 
dermine it, wherewith he perceived he little prevailed. 
Knolles. 
But, when you find that vigorous heat abate, 
Leave off, and for another fummons wait. Rofcommon. 
To flop : 
Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, 
But ftill beget new mifehiefs in their courfe. Daniel. 
To LEAVE, v. a. [from levy, of lever, Fr.] To levy ; 
to raife: a corrupt word, made probably for a rhyme : 
An army ftrong fhe leav'd. 
To war on thofe w’hich him had of his realm bereav’d. 
Spenfer's Fairy Queen. 
LE'AVED, adj. [from leaves, of leaf. ] Furniflied with 
foliage. Made with leaves or folds.—I will loofe the 
loins of kings, to open before him the two -leaved gates. 
If a. xlv. 1. 
LEAV'EN, f. \levain, Fr. levare, Lat.J Ferment mixed 
with any body to make it light; particularly ufed of four 
dough mixed in a mafs of bread.—All fermented meats 
and drinks are eafieft digefted ; and thofe unfermented, 
by barm or leaven, are hardly digefted. Flayer. —Any mix¬ 
ture which makes a general change in the mafs ; it gene¬ 
rally means fomething that depraves or corrupts that with 
which it is mixed.—Many of their propofitions favour 
very ftrongly of the old leaven of innovations. King Charles. 
Leaven was ftriftly forbidden by the law of Mofes dur¬ 
ing the feven days of the paflover; and the Jews, in obe¬ 
dience to this law, very carefully purified their houfes 
from all leaven as foon as the vigil of the fealt began. 
Nothing of honey or leaven was to have place in any thing 
prefented to the Lord, upon his altar, during this fo- 
lemnity. If, during the feaft, the leaft particle of leaven 
was found in their houfes, they imagined the whole was 
polluted, for a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 1 Cor. 
v. 6. And even at this day, as we are informed, the 
Jews are equally ftrift. Before the paflover commences, 
they fearch all the corners of their houfes, with moft feru- 
pulous exaftnefs, for all bread or pafte, See. that might 
have been leavened. Having thus well cleanfed their 
houfes, they whiten or paint the rooms, and provide them- 
felves with kitchen and table utenfils all new, or with 
others to be ufed only on that day. If they are of metal, 
they have them polifhed, and put into the fire to cleanfe 
all impurity which they may have contracted by touching 
any thing leavened. All this is done on the 13th of the 
month Nifan, on the eve of the paflover, which begins on 
the 15th or rather on the 14th in the evening; the He¬ 
brews reckoning their days from evening to evening. Lee 
of Modena's Ceremonies of the Jews, Part iii. cap. 3. 
To LEAV'EN, v. n. To ferment by fomething mixed. 
—Breads we have of feveral grains, with divers kinds of 
leavenings and feafonings ; bo that borne do extremely move 
appetites. Bacon. —To taint; to imbue: 
That cruel bomething unpoflefs’d 
Corrodes and leavens all the reft. Prior. 
LEAV ENING, f. The aft of fermenting by leaven, 
the ttate of being fermented with leaven ; a fermentation, 
a taint. 
LE'AVER,/ [from leave. ] One who deferts or for- 
fakes; 
Let 
