Verb

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to'', ''toward , etc.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

They delight rather to lean to their old customs.

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* (1809-1892)

He leaned not on his fathers but himself.

* , chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

To hang outwards.

To press against.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .

Verb

(en verb)

To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

* {{quote-magazine

, year=1938 , month=July , author=Blaine and Dupont Miller , title=Weather Hop , page=25 , magazine=Boy's Life , publisher=Boy Scouts of America , issn=0006-8608 citation , passage=He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. }}

* {{quote-magazine

, year=2002 , month=July , author=Tom Benenson , title=Can Your Engine Run Too Lean? , volume=129 , issue=7 , page=73 , magazine=Flying , issn=0015-4806 citation , passage=Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude. }}

Verb

(en verb)

To conceal.

(Ray)

Verb

To jump.

* anonymous, Merlin

It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep

* 1600 , anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll , act 4

I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?

* 1783 , , from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , lecture 4, page 65

Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.

* 1999 , Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems , page 78

It is better to leap into the void.

To pass over by a leap or jump.

to leap a wall or a ditch

To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

To cause to leap.

to leap a horse across a ditch