Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal preterit and past participle of leave.
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Examples
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And here I cannot help r«fle6ling with fome plca - fiXTty that the town, that part of it, at leaft, which is not quit€ Italianized, have one obligation to me, who made the firft difcovery of your great capacity, and brought you earlier forward on the theatre, than the Ignorance of fome and the envy of others would have otherwife permitted.
The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition ... 1783
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When the jets hit the wtc the big fire ball was the jet fule how much do you think would be leaft.
Think Progress » Under Fire, ABC Yanks Official Blog of 9/11 Docudrama 2006
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Once, the thought of getting an angry email would have leaft me eager, ready to bite back and let loose with verbal fury.
dragonwench Diary Entry dragonwench 2005
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And it is obfervable of London in particular, that were no frefh Recruits, Male and Female, to come out of the Country, to fupply thofe Devaftations which Vice, Intemperance, Brothels, and the gallows are continually making, the whole human Species in that City would be foon exhaufted; for the Number of Deaths exceed the Births by at leaft 7,000 every Year. '
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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The husking hook is particularly useful when husking dried cobs since the leaft sheaths are much harder to strip away than those of fresh cobs.
Chapter 5 1984
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Williamsburgh, the capital of Virginia, at leaft 400 miles from the settlements on the Ohio?
Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 Great Britain. Board of Trade
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CHRIST shal dye: and al men that haue breath, 30 and the world shal be turned into the old silence seuen dayes, as in the former iudgementes, so that none shal be leaft.
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CHRIST shal dye: and al men that haue breath, 30 and the world shal be turned into the old silence seuen dayes, as in the former iudgementes, so that none shal be leaft.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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"Of every fishmonger that selleth ffish at his window in the lent to paye at good ffriday a good lb. of samon or of the beast ffish they have then leaft."
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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THOU GAWD SEEST ME, was the tex 'I' ad in my Bible, w'ich my father wrote it in with 'is own' and upon the fly leaft. '
The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907
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