Word Meanings - FORLEAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to FORLEAVE)
- LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - LEAVED
Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved. - LEAVENING
1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon. - WHOLLY
1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly. Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield. Dryden. 2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. Addison. - LEAVELESS
Leafless. Carew. - LEAVEN
alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, - LEAVENOUS
Containing leaven. Milton. - LEAVER
One who leaves, or withdraws. - LEAVE
To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher. - LEAVES
pl. of Leaf. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - CLEAVER
One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces. - FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper. - PARKLEAVES
A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan. - CLEAVELANDITE
A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure. - CLEAVE
clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of - FORLEAVE
To leave off wholly. Chaucer. - SLEAVED
Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed. - DISLEAVE
To deprive of leaves. The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell. - WING-LEAVED
Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves. - OVERLEAVEN
To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. - CLEAVERS
A species of Galium , having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.