LEA-QUE
First name LEA-QUE's origin is German. LEA-QUE means "Meaning Unknown". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LEA-QUE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of leaque.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with LEA-QUE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming LEA-QUE
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alacoque abeque angelique anjanique charlique diamonique domenique jacque mistique monique mystique younique atique dominique enrique marque rique roque tarique tyreeque veroniqueRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ue) - Names That Ends with ue:
hue montague due nimue sue andrue donahue drue josue larue maldue mogue teaghue teague tihkoosue true agaueNAMES RHYMING WITH LEAQUE (According to first letters):
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lea leachlainn leah leal leala lealia leaman leamhnach lean leana leander leandra leandre leandro leane leanian leann leanna leannan leanne lear leary leathan leathlobhair leaxRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (le) - Names That Begins with le:
leb lebna lecia leda lee leeann leeanne leela leeland leena leeroy leesa legarre legaya legget leia leianna leicester leigb leigh leigh-ann leighanne leighton leiko leil leila leilah leilana leilani leilanie leilany leiloni leira leisha leith leitha leitis leksi lela leland lele lelia lema leman lemuel lemuela len lena lenae lenard lenci lendall lendell lenee leng lenmana lenn lennard lennell lennie lenno lennon lennox lenny lenora lenore lenuta leo leoc leocadie leod leoda leodegan leodegrance leodegraunceNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEAQUE:
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First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'e':
labhaoise lace lacee lacene lache lachie lacie ladde lafayette lailie laine lainie laire lajeune lalage lamandre lance lane lanette lange lanice lanie lannie laoghaire larae laraine laramie larcwide larie larine larisse larke larraine lasalle lashae lasse lassie laudegrance laudine lauraine lauralee laurelle laurence laurene laurenne laurette laurie lausanne laverne lawe lawrence laycie laylie layne leonce leone leonelle leonie leonore leontyne leopoldine leotie leslee leslie lethe letje leucippe levane levene lexie lexine lezlie liane libuse lidoine liliane lilie lilike lillee lillie liluye lindie lindisfarne lindiwe line linette linne linnette liriene lirienne lisabette lise liselle lisette lisle lissette livingstone lizette locke locrineEnglish Words Rhyming LEA-QUE
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ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEAQUE (According to last letters):
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claque | noun (n.) A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition. |
macaque | noun (n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies. |
opaque | noun (n.) That which is opaque; opacity. |
adjective (a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. | |
adjective (a.) Obscure; not clear; unintelligible. |
paque | noun (n.) See Pasch and Easter. |
plaque | noun (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch. |
semiopaque | adjective (a.) Half opaque; only half transparent. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (que) - English Words That Ends with que:
adunque | adjective (a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill. |
alhambresque | adjective (a.) Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture. |
antique | adjective (a.) Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. |
adjective (a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. | |
adjective (a.) Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence." | |
adjective (a.) Odd; fantastic. | |
adjective (a.) In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. |
applique | adjective (a.) Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work. |
arabesque | noun (n.) A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together. |
adjective (a.) Arabian. | |
adjective (a.) Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes. |
alcornoque | noun (n.) The bark of several trees, esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree. |
barbaresque | adjective (a.) Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. |
barque | noun (n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. |
noun (n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged. | |
noun (n.) Same as 3d Bark, n. |
baroque | adjective (a.) In bad taste; grotesque; odd. |
adjective (a.) Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl. |
basque | noun (n.) One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France. |
noun (n.) The language spoken by the Basque people. | |
noun (n.) A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language. |
bezique | noun (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points. |
bisque | noun (n.) Unglazed white porcelain. |
noun (n.) A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet. | |
noun (n.) A white soup made of crayfish. |
blottesque | adjective (a.) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. |
brusque | adjective (a.) Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style. |
burlesque | noun (n.) Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. |
noun (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything. | |
noun (n.) A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. | |
adjective (a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. | |
verb (v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. | |
verb (v. i.) To employ burlesque. |
brasque | noun (n.) A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep. |
breloque | noun (n.) A seal or charm for a watch chain. |
cacique | noun (n.) See Cazique. |
caique | noun (n.) A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size. |
casque | noun (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet. |
catafalque | noun (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial. |
cazique | noun (n.) Alt. of Cazic |
cheque | noun (n.) See Check. |
chibouque | noun (n.) Alt. of Chibouk |
chronique | noun (n.) A chronicle. |
cinque | noun (n.) Five; the number five in dice or cards. |
cirque | noun (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. |
noun (n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height. |
clinique | noun (n.) A clinic. |
critique | noun (n.) The art of criticism. |
noun (n.) A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." | |
noun (n.) A critic; one who criticises. | |
verb (v.) To criticise or pass judgment upon. |
coque | noun (n.) A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc. |
dantesque | adjective (a.) Dantelike; Dantean. |
equivoque | noun (n.) Alt. of Equivoke |
fantique | noun (n.) State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. |
filioque | noun (n.) The Latin for, "and from the Son," equivalent to et filio, inserted by the third council of Toledo (a. d. 589) in the clause qui ex Patre procedit (who proceedeth from the Father) of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (a. d. 381), which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father. Hence, the doctrine itself (not admitted by the Eastern Church). |
gigantesque | adjective (a.) Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. |
grecque | noun (n.) An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander. |
grotesque | noun (n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. |
noun (n.) Artificial grotto-work. |
kaique | noun (n.) See Caique. |
marque | noun (n.) A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals. |
masque | noun (n.) A mask; a masquerade. |
mauresque | noun (a. & n.) See Moresque. |
moresque | noun (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish. |
mosque | noun (n.) A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. |
oblique | noun (n.) An oblique line. |
adjective (a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. | |
adjective (a.) Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. | |
adjective (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. | |
verb (v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. | |
verb (v. i.) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left. |
odalisque | noun (n.) A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. |
que | noun (n.) A half farthing. |
noun (n.) A half farthing. |
palenque | noun (n. pl.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras. |
parauque | noun (n.) A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker. |
pasque | noun (n.) See Pasch. |
perruque | noun (n.) See Peruke. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEAQUE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (leaqu) - Words That Begins with leaqu:
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Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (lea) - Words That Begins with lea:
lea | noun (n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay. |
noun (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. | |
noun (n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. |
leach | noun (n.) See 3d Leech. |
noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. | |
noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. | |
noun (n.) See Leech, a physician. | |
verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. | |
verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. | |
verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation. |
leaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leach |
leachy | adjective (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like. |
lead | noun (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. |
noun (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead | |
noun (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. | |
noun (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. | |
noun (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. | |
noun (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. | |
noun (n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another. | |
noun (n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second. | |
noun (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead. | |
noun (n.) An open way in an ice field. | |
noun (n.) A lode. | |
noun (n.) The course of a rope from end to end. | |
noun (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. | |
noun (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. | |
noun (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. | |
noun (n.) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. | |
noun (n.) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others. | |
noun (n.) In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called negative lead. | |
noun (n.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft. | |
noun (n.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn. | |
noun (n.) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo. | |
noun (n.) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. | |
noun (n.) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it. | |
noun (n.) A r/le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r/le. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle. | |
verb (v. t.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter. | |
verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man. | |
verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil. | |
verb (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party. | |
verb (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause. | |
verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course). | |
verb (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led. | |
verb (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t. | |
verb (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices. |
leading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead |
noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead | |
noun (n.) The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance. | |
noun (n.) Suggestion; hint; example. | |
adjective (a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example. |
leaded | adjective (a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows. |
adjective (a.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Lead |
leaden | adjective (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. |
adjective (a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. | |
adjective (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish. |
leader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. |
noun (n.) One who goes first. | |
noun (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander. | |
noun (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins. | |
noun (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. | |
noun (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. | |
noun (n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. | |
noun (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor. | |
noun (n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached. | |
noun (n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. | |
noun (n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article. | |
noun (n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face. | |
noun (n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number. |
leadership | noun (n.) The office of a leader. |
leadhillite | noun (n.) A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland. |
leadman | noun (n.) One who leads a dance. |
leadsman | noun (n.) The man who heaves the lead. |
leadwort | noun (n.) A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). P. Europaea has lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers. |
leady | adjective (a.) Resembling lead. |
leaf | noun (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage. |
noun (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril. | |
noun (n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. | |
verb (v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May. |
leafing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leaf |
leafage | noun (n.) Leaves, collectively; foliage. |
leafcup | noun (n.) A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia). |
leafed | adjective (a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Leaf |
leafet | noun (n.) A leaflet. |
leafiness | noun (n.) The state of being leafy. |
leafless | adjective (a.) Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage. |
leaflet | noun (n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract. |
noun (n.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole. | |
noun (n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes. |
leafstalk | noun (n.) The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf. |
league | noun (n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each. |
noun (n.) A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. | |
noun (n.) An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate. | |
verb (v. t.) To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements. |
leaguing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of League |
leaguer | noun (n.) The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general. |
noun (n.) A siege or beleaguering. | |
verb (v. t.) To besiege; to beleaguer. |
leaguerer | noun (n.) A besieger. |
leak | noun (n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks. |
noun (n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out. | |
noun (n.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs. | |
adjective (a.) Leaky. | |
verb (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe. | |
verb (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps. |
leaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leak |
leakage | noun (n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking. |
noun (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking. | |
noun (n.) A leak; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted. |
leakiness | noun (n.) The quality of being leaky. |
leal | adjective (a.) Faithful; loyal; true. |
leam | noun (n. & v. i.) See Leme. |
noun (n.) A cord or strap for leading a dog. |
leamer | noun (n.) A dog held by a leam. |
leaning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lean |
noun (n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism. |
lean | noun (n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. |
noun (n.) Unremunerative copy or work. | |
verb (v. t.) To conceal. | |
verb (v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. | |
verb (v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. | |
verb (v. i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. | |
verb (v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. | |
verb (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. | |
verb (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type. |
leanness | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being lean. |
leany | adjective (a.) Lean. |
leap | noun (n.) A basket. |
noun (n.) A weel or wicker trap for fish. | |
noun (n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound. | |
noun (n.) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast. | |
noun (n.) A fault. | |
noun (n.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals. | |
verb (v. i.) To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. | |
verb (v. i.) To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. | |
verb (v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch. | |
verb (v. t.) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch. |
leaping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leap |
noun (a. & n.) from Leap, to jump. |
leaper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, leaps. |
noun (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage. |
leapfrog | noun (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former. |
leapful | noun (n.) A basketful. |
lear | noun (n.) Lore; lesson. |
noun (n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n. | |
adjective (a.) See Leer, a. | |
verb (v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn. |
learning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Learn |
noun (n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy. | |
noun (n.) The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning. |
learnable | adjective (a.) Such as can be learned. |
learned | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Learn |
learner | noun (n.) One who learns; a scholar. |