Part 6428

<hw>League</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; <as>as, common interests will <ex>league</ex> heterogeneous elements</as>.</def>

<h1>Leaguer</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Lea"guer</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D.<ets>leger</ets> camp, bed, couch, lair. See <er>Lair</er>, and cf.<er>Beleaguer</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.</def>

<i>b. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A siege or beleaguering.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Leaguer</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Lea"guer</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt><def>To besiege; to beleaguer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Leaguerer</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Lea"guer*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A besieger.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>J. Webster.</i>

<h1>Leak</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leak</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Akin to D. <ets>lek</ets> leaky, a leak, G.<ets>leck</ets>, Icel. <ets>lekr</ets> leaky, Dan. <ets>l\'91k</ets> leaky, a leak, Sw. <ets>l\'84ck</ets>; cf. AS. <ets>hlec</ets> full of cracks or leaky. Cf. <er>Leak</er>, <tt>v.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; <as>as, a <ex>leak</ex> in a roof; a <ex>leak</ex> in a boat; a <ex>leak</ex> in a gas pipe.</as></def> "One <i>leak</i> will sink a ship."

<i>Bunyan.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; <as>as, the <ex>leak</ex> gained on the ship's pumps</as>.</def>

<cs><col>To spring a leak</col>, <cd>to open or crack so as to let in water; to begin to let in water; <as>as, the ship <ex>sprung a leak<ex></as>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Leak</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leak</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Leaky.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

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<hw>Leak</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Leaked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Leaking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Akin to D. <ets>lekken</ets>, G. <ets>lecken</ets>, <ets>lechen</ets>, Icel. <ets>leka</ets>, Dan. <ets>l\'91kke</ets>, Sw. <ets>l\'84cka</ets>, AS. <ets>leccan</ets> to wet, moisten. See <er>Leak</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; <as>as, the cask <ex>leaks</ex>; the roof <ex>leaks</ex>; the boat <ex>leaks</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with <ptcl>in</ptcl> or <ptcl>out</ptcl>.</def>

<cs><col>To leak out</col>, <cd>to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, <as>the facts <ex>leaked out<ex></as>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Leakage</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leak"age</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. D. <ets>lekkage</ets>, for sense 1.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking</def>.

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking</def>.

<h1>Leakiness</h1> <Xpage=838>

<hw>Leak"i*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being leaky.</def>