Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEAV'ED, a. [from leaf; but leafed would be preferable.]

1. Furnished with foliage or leaves.
2. Having a leaf, or made with leaves or folds; as, a the leaved gate.

LEAVE'LESS, a.

Destitute of leaves.

LEAV'EN, n. lev'n. [Fr. kvain, front lever, to raise,L. lev Eng- to lift.]

1. A mass of sour dough, which, mixed with a larger qua. thy of dough or paste, produces fermentation in it and re, ders it light. During the seven dnys of the passover, leaven was permitted to be in the hottses of the Jews. E xii.
2. Any thing which makes a general change in the mass. generally means something which corrupts or depraves the with which it is mixed. Beware of the leaven of the Pharpsees and of the Sadducei Matth. xvp.

LEAV'EN, v.t. leven.

1. To excite fermentation in; to raise and make light, as dough or paste. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 1 Cor. v.
2. To taint; to imbue. Prior.

LEAV-EN-ED, pp. levened.

Raised and made light by fermentation.

LEAV-EN-ING, n. keening.

That which leavens or malt light. Boa

LEAV-EN-ING, ppr. levening.

Making light by fermentation.

LEAV-EN-OUS, a. levlentat.

1. Containing leaven; tain. Neilt.
2. Refuse; offal. Swift . [An improper word; it ought to be leafy.]

LEAV'ER, n.

from leave.] One who leaves or relinquishes; one who foforsakes.

LEAVES, n. plur.

of Leaf. Shak.

LEAV'INGS, n. plur.

Things left; reinnant; relics. The leavings of Pharsalia. Addison.

LEAV'Y, a. [from leaf.]

Full of leaves; covered with leaves. Sidney- Shak.

LECH,

for lick. [Obs.] See LICK.

LECH'ER, n. [at. lwo gluttony, lechery; leccare, to lick; leccardo, greedy; G. fecken; D. likker. See lick, leak and a layer, or a lying down; leegan, to lay; lig an, to he. See Lubricity.]

A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an exorbitant degree, to the indulgence of the animal appetite, and an illicit commerce with females.

LECH'ER, v.i.

To practice lewdness; to indulge lust. b. Joyhnson.

LECH'ER-OUS, a.

1. Addicted to lewdness; prone to indulge lust; lustful; lewd. Derham.
2. Provoking lust. Chaucer.

LECH'ER-OUS-LY, adv.

lustfully; lewdly.

LECH'ER-OUS-NESS, n.

Lust, or strong propensity to indulge the sexual appetite.

LEC'TION, n. [L. lectio, from lego, to read. IR. leighim, leagham, Gr. {foreign}, Fr. lire.]

1. A reading.
2. A difference or variety in copies of a manuscript or book. Watts.
3. A lesson or portion of Scripture read in divine service.

LEC'TION-A-RY, n.

the romish service-book, containing portions of Scripture.

LECTOR, n. [L. lego, talus.]

In the ancient church, a reader; a person designated to read parts of the bible, &c., when few other people could read.

LEC'TURE, n. [Fr. lecture, from L. lectura, from lego, to read.]

1. A discourse read or pronounced on any subject; usually a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; as, a lecture on morals, philosophy, rhetoric, or theology.
2. A reading; the act or practice of reading; as in the leacture of the Holy Scripture. [little used.] Brown.
3. A magisterial reprimand; a formal reproof. Addison.
4. A recitation; rehearsal of a lesson. Eng. Univ.

LEC'TURE, v.i.

1. To read or deliver a formal discourse.
2. To practice reading lcctures for instruction. We say, the professor lectures on geometry, or on chituistry.

LEC'TURE, v.i.

1. To instruet by discourses.
2. To instruct dogmatically or authoritatively; to reprove; as, to lecture one for his faults.

LEC'TUR-ED, pp.

Instructed by discourse; reprpmanded.