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   Leave , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leaving] To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
   G. Fletcher.
   
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   Leave, v. t. [See Levy.] To raise; to levy. [Obs.]
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   An army strong she leaved.
   Spenser.
   
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   Leave, n. [OE. leve, leave, AS. leáf; akin to leóf pleasing, dear, E. lief, D. oorlof leave, G. arlaub, and erlauben to permit, Icel. leyfi.  √124.  See Lief.]
   Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
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   David earnestly asked leave of me.
   1 Sam. xx. 6.
   
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   No friend has leave to bear away the dead.
   Dryden.
   
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   The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
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   A double blessing is a'double grace;
   Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
   Shak.
   
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   And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren.
   Acts xviii. 18.
   
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   French leave. See under French.
   Syn. -- See Liberty.
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   Leave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Left ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leaving.] [OE. leven, AS. lfan, fr. lāf remnant, heritage; akin to lifian, libban, to live, orig., to remain; cf. belīfan to remain, G. bleiben, Goth. bileiban. √119.  See Live, v.]
   To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
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   Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.
   Gen. ii. 24.
   
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   To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
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   If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes ?
   Jer. xlix. 9. 
   
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   These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
   Matt. xxiii. 23. 
   
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   Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed.
   Bacon.
   
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   To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
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   Now leave complaining and begin your tea.
   Pope.
   
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   To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
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   Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
   Mark x. 28.
   
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   The heresies that men do leave.
   Shak.
   
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   To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
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   I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor.
   Shak.
   
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   To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.
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   Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way.
   Matt. v. 24.
   
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   The foot
   That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.
   Shak.
   
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   To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.
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   to cause to be; -- followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.
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   To leave alone. (a) To leave in solitude. (b) To desist or refrain from having to do with; as, to leave dangerous chemicals alone. -- To leave off. (a) To desist from; to forbear; to stop; as, to leave off work at six o'clock. (b) To cease wearing or using; to omit to put in the usual position; as, to leave off a garment; to leave off the tablecloth. (c) To forsake; as, to leave off a bad habit. -- To leave out, to omit; as, to leave out a word or name in writing. -- To leave to one's self, to let (one) be alone; to cease caring for (one).
   Syn>- To quit; depart from; forsake; abandon; relinquish; deliver; bequeath; give up; forego; resign; surrender; forbear. See Quit.
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   Leave , v. i.
   To depart; to set out. [Colloq.]
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   By the time I left for Scotland.
   Carlyle.
   
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   To cease; to desist; to leave off. “He . . . began at the eldest, and left at the youngest.”  
   Gen. xliv. 12.
   
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   To leave off, to cease; to desist; to stop.
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   Leave off, and for another summons wait.
   Roscommon.
   
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