Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEAK, v.i.

To let water or other liquor into or out of vessel, through a hole or crevice in the vessel. A ship leaks, when she admits water through her seams or an aperture in her bottom or sides, into the hull. A pail or a cask leaks, when it admits liquor to pass out through a hole a crevice. To leak out, to find vent; to escape privately from confinement or secrecy; as a fact or report.