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Leave
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
(3):
(v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
(6):
(v. i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.
(7):
(v. i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.
(8):
(v. t.) To raise; to levy.
(9):
(n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
(10):
(v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
(11):
(v. i.) To depart; to set out.
(12):
(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.
(13):
(v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Leave'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/l/leave.html. 1828.
