Vocabulary : Leatherwood to Leaver

Leatherwood : A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy.
Leathery : Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough.
Leave : To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. ;; To raise; to levy. ;; Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. ;; 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. ;; To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house. ;; To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed. ;; To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from. ;; To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish. ;; To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. ;; 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. ;; To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he
Leaved : of Leave ;; Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long-leaved.
Leaveless : Leafless.
Leaven : Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm. ;; Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass. ;; To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment. ;; To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Leavened : of Leaven
Leavening : of Leaven ;; The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. ;; That which leavens or makes light.
Leavenous : Containing leaven.
Leaver : One who leaves, or withdraws.
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