KJV Dictionary Definition: leave

leave

LEAVE, n.

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

No friend has leave to bear away the dead.

David earnestly asked leave of me. 1Sam. 20.

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

leaved

LE'AVED, a. from leaf; but leafed would be preferable.

1. Furnished with foliage or leaves.

2. Having a leaf, or made with leaves or folds; as a two-leaved gate.

leaves

LEAVES, n. plu. of leaf.

leaving

LE'AVING, ppr. Quitting; withdrawing from; relinquishing; suffering to remain; ceasing; desisting from.

leavings

LE'AVINGS, n. plu.

1. Things left; remnant; relics.

The leavings of Pharsalia.

2. Refuse; offal.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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