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- English Word Leafy Definition Consisting of leaves.
- English Word League Definition A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.
- English Word League Definition A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
- English Word League Definition An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.
- English Word League Definition To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.
- English Word League Definition To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.
- English Word Leagued Definition of League
- English Word Leaguer Definition The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
- English Word Leaguer Definition A siege or beleaguering.
- English Word Leaguer Definition To besiege; to beleaguer.
- English Word Leaguerer Definition A besieger.
- English Word Leaguing Definition of League
- English Word Leak Definition A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
- English Word Leak Definition The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
- English Word Leak Definition Leaky.
- English Word Leak Definition To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
- English Word Leak Definition To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
- English Word Leakage Definition A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
- English Word Leakage Definition An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
- English Word Leaked Definition of Leak