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Leather-seller [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. LEATH'ER-SELLER ,

2. LEATH'ER-WINGED,

3. LEATH'ERN,

4. LEATH'ERY,

5. LEAVE, noun

6. Permission; allowance; license; liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed.

7. No friend has leave to bear away the dead.

8. David earnestly asked leave of me. 1 Samuel 20:1 .

9. Farewell; adieu; ceremony of departure; a formal parting of friends; used chiefly in the phrase to take leave. Acts 18:1 .

Leather-seller [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cease; to desist.

2. He began at the eldest and left at the youngest. Genesis 44:12 .

3. To leave off, to cease; to desist; to stop.

4. But when you find that vigorous heat abate, leave off, and for another summons wait.

Leather-seller [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense and participle passive left. [Gr. Let in English has the sense both of permit and of hinder. The most prominent significations of leave, are to stop or forbear, and to withdraw.]

2. To withdraw or depart from; to quit for a longer or shorter time indefinitely, or for perpetuity. We left Cowes on our return to the United States, May 10, 1825. We leave home for a day or a year. The fever leaves the patient daily at a certain hour. The secretary has left the business of his office with his first clerk.

3. A man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife. Genesis 2:1 .

4. To forsake; to desert; to abandon; to relinquish.

5. We have left all and followed thee. Mark 10:1 .

6. To suffer to remain; not to take or remove.

7. Let no man leave of it till the morning. Exodus 16:1 .

8. To have remaining at death; as, to leave a good name.

9. To commit or trust to, as a deposit; or to suffer to remain. I left the papers in the care of the consul.

10. To bequeath; to give by will. The deceased has left his lands to his sons, but he has left a legacy to his only daughter.

11. To permit without interposition. Of this, he leaves the reader to judge.

12. To cease to do; to desist from; to forbear.

13. Let us return, lest my father leave caring for the asses and take thought for us. 1 Samuel 9:5 .

14. To refer; to commit for decision.

15. To be left to one's self, to be deserted or forsaken; to be permitted to follow one's own opinions or desires.

16. To leave off, to desist from; to forbear; as, to leave off work at six o'clock.

17. To leave off, to cease wearing; as, to leave off a garment.

18. To forsake; as, to leave off an old acquaintance.

19. To leave out, to omit; as, to leave out a word or name in writing.

20. To raise. [Not used.]