LEARY
First name LEARY's origin is Irish. LEARY means "cattle keeper". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LEARY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of leary.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with LEARY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming LEARY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LEARY AS A WHOLE:
clearyNAMES RHYMING WITH LEARY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (eary) - Names That Ends with eary:
aeary keary sheary gearyRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ary) - Names That Ends with ary:
tamary hilary hillary mary rosemary cary conary dary gary zachary zackary zakaryRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ry) - Names That Ends with ry:
kundry khairy barry jory avery emery perry salisbury thiery ambry cherry devery dory ivory kerry margery merry sherry amery amory carbry cory darry derry ellery emory farry flannery gerry gilvarry gorry gregory harry jeffery jeffry jerry larry mallory montgomery mukonry murry rorry rory sallsbury terry thierry torry tory zackery dimitry stanbury kendry fakhry cundry khoury landry roxbury amaury henry aubry corry destry devry garryNAMES RHYMING WITH LEARY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (lear) - Names That Begins with lear:
learRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (lea) - Names That Begins with lea:
lea lea-que leachlainn leah leal leala lealia leaman leamhnach lean leana leander leandra leandre leandro leane leanian leann leanna leannan leanne 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 LEARY:
First Names which starts with 'le' and ends with 'ry':
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'y':
lacey lacy laidley laidly lainey landrey laney langley lanny lany lavy lawley lawly lay leroy lesley levey lewy lexy ley libby liberty lilly lily lindley lindly lindsay lindsey lindy linley linly linsay linsey lomsky lomy lucky lucy lundy lyndsay lyndsey lynley lynsey lynzeyEnglish Words Rhyming LEARY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LEARY AS A WHOLE:
bleary | adjective (a.) Somewhat blear. |
cochleary | adjective (a.) Same as Cochleate. |
trochleary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEARY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (eary) - English Words That Ends with eary:
alveary | noun (n.) A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. |
noun (n.) The hollow of the external ear. |
aweary | adjective (a.) Weary. |
balneary | noun (n.) A bathing room. |
deary | noun (n.) A dear; a darling. |
interlineary | noun (n.) A book containing interlineations. |
adjective (a.) Interlinear. |
laqueary | adjective (a.) Using a noose, as a gladiator. |
lineary | adjective (a.) Linear. |
smeary | adjective (a.) Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous. |
speary | adjective (a.) Having the form of a spear. |
teary | adjective (a.) Wet with tears; tearful. |
adjective (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears. |
tracheary | noun (n.) One of the Trachearia. |
adjective (a.) Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ary) - English Words That Ends with ary:
abecedary | noun (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. |
ablutionary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to ablution. |
accessary | noun (n.) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. |
adjective (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. |
accustomary | adjective (a.) Usual; customary. |
acetary | noun (n.) An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. |
actionary | noun (n.) Alt. of Actionist |
actuary | noun (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally. |
noun (n.) The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances. |
additionary | adjective (a.) Additional. |
admaxillary | adjective (a.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone. |
adminiculary | adjective (a.) Adminicular. |
adversary | noun (n.) One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. |
adjective (a.) Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. | |
adjective (a.) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit. |
aestuary | noun (n. & a.) See Estuary. |
alary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. |
alimentary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. |
allodiary | noun (n.) One who holds an allodium. |
alveolary | adjective (a.) Alveolar. |
ampullary | adjective (a.) Resembling an ampulla. |
ancillary | adjective (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. |
anniversary | noun (n.) The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. |
noun (n.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope. | |
noun (n.) The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day. | |
adjective (a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. |
annuary | noun (n.) A yearbook. |
adjective (a.) Annual. |
annulary | adjective (a.) Having the form of a ring; annular. |
antidotary | adjective (a.) Antidotal. |
antiphonary | noun (n.) A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained. |
antiquary | noun (n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquity. |
apiary | noun (n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse. |
apocrisiary | noun (n.) Alt. of Apocrisiarius |
apothecary | noun (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. |
arbitrary | adjective (a.) Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. |
adjective (a.) Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. | |
adjective (a.) Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. |
arborary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal. |
armamentary | noun (n.) An armory; a magazine or arsenal. |
armillary | noun (n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. |
arrectary | noun (n.) An upright beam. |
articulary | noun (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. |
atrabiliary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys. |
adjective (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. |
auctary | noun (n.) That which is superadded; augmentation. |
auctionary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. |
auxiliary | noun (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. |
noun (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. | |
adjective (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. | |
(sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. | |
(sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae. |
aviary | noun (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house. |
axillary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve. |
adjective (a.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. |
bacillary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacilli; produced by, or containing, bacilli; bacillar; as, a bacillary disease. |
barbary | noun (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. |
basilary | noun (n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base. |
noun (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. |
beggary | noun (n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. |
noun (n.) Beggarly appearance. | |
adjective (a.) Beggarly. |
benedictionary | noun (n.) A collected series of benedictions. |
beneficiary | noun (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds. |
noun (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. | |
adjective (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. | |
adjective (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts. |
bibliothecary | noun (n.) A librarian. |
bicentenary | noun (n.) The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. |
biliary | adjective (a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. |
binary | noun (n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality. |
adjective (a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things). |
blomary | noun (n.) See Bloomery. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEARY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (lear) - Words That Begins with lear:
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. |
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. |
leasable | adjective (a.) Such as can be leased. |
leasing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lease |
adjective (a.) The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies. |
leasehold | noun (n.) A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years. |
adjective (a.) Held by lease. |
leaseholder | noun (n.) A tenant under a lease. |
leaser | noun (n.) One who leases or gleans. |
noun (n.) A liar. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEARY:
English Words which starts with 'le' and ends with 'ry':
leathery | adjective (a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. |
lechery | noun (n.) Free indulgence of lust; lewdness. |
noun (n.) Selfish pleasure; delight. |
lectionary | noun (n.) A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service. |
legatary | noun (n.) A legatee. |
legendary | noun (n.) A book of legends; a tale or narrative. |
noun (n.) One who relates legends. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. |
legionary | noun (n.) A member of a legion. |
adjective (a.) Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force. |
legionry | noun (n.) A body of legions; legions, collectively. |
lepry | noun (n.) Leprosy. |
letuary | noun (n.) Electuary. |
levorotatory | adjective (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc. |