Leech"craft` (-krft`), n. The art of healing; skill of a physician.
[Archaic] Chaucer.
{ Leed, Leede (ld) }, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A caldron; a copper
kettle. [Obs.] "A furnace of a leed." Chaucer.
Leef (lf), a. & adv. See Lief. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Leek (lk), n. [AS. leác; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel.
laukr, Sw. lök, Dan lög. Cf. Garlic.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus
Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from
a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of
the common onion.
Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of
ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
Leeme (lm), v. & n. See Leme. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Leep (lp), obs. strong imp. of Leap. Leaped.
Leer (lr), v. t. To learn. [Obs.] See Lere, to learn.
Leer, a. [OE. lere; akin to G. leer, OHG. & OS. lri.] [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.] Empty; destitute; wanting; as: (a) Empty of contents. "A leer
stomach." Gifford. (b) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not
ridden; as, a leer horse. B. Jonson. (c) Wanting sense or seriousness;
trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
Leer, n. An oven in which glassware is annealed.
Leer, n. [OE. lere cheek, face, look, AS. hleór cheek, face; akin to
OS. hlear, hlior, OD. lier, Icel. hlr.] 1. The cheek. [Obs.] Holinshed.