(v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
(v. t.) To raise; to levy.
(n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed;
permission; allowance; license.
(n.) 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.
(v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart
from; as, to leave the house.
(v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue,
in distinction from what is removed or changed.
(v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
(v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to
relinquish.
(v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his
reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v. i.) To depart; to set out.
(v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.
