Chapter Lessee to Letter of L by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Let
(Let), v. i.

1. To forbear. [Obs.] Bacon.

2. To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.

To let on, to tell; to tattle; to divulge something. [Low] — To let up, to become less severe; to diminish; to cease; as, when the storm lets up. [Colloq.]

Let-alone
(Let"-a*lone") a. Letting alone.

The let-aloneprinciple, doctrine, or policy. (Polit. Econ.) See Laissez faire.

Letch
(Letch) v. & n. See Leach.

Letch
(Letch), n. [See Lech, Lecher.] Strong desire; passion.

Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others.

De Quincey.

Letchy
(Letch"y) a. See Leachy.

Lete
(Lete) v. t. To let; to leave. [Obs.]

Leten
(Let"en) obs. p. p. of Lete. Chaucer.

Lethal
(Leth"al) n. [Lauric + ether + alcohol.] (Chem.) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.

Lethal
(Le"thal) a. [L. lethalis, letalis, fr. lethum, letum, death: cf. F. léthal.] Deadly; mortal; fatal. "The lethal blow." W. Richardson. — Le"thal*ly, adv.

Lethality
(Le*thal"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. léthalité.] The quality of being lethal; mortality.

Lethargic
(Le*thar"gic) Lethargical
(Le*thar"gic*al) a. [L. lethargicus, Gr. lhqargiko`s: cf. F. léthargique. See Lethargy.] Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy. — Le*thar"gic*al*ly, adv. — Le*thar"gic*al*ness, n. — Le*thar"gic*ness, n.

Lethargize
(Leth"ar*gize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lethargized (- jizd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lethargizing (- ji`zing).] To make lethargic.

All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.

Coleridge.

Lethargy
(Leth"ar*gy) n.; pl. -gies [F. léthargie, L. lethargia, Gr. lhqargi`a, fr. lh`qargos forgetful, fr. lh`qh forgetfulness. See Lethe.]

1. Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

2. A state of inaction or indifference.

Europe lay then under a deep lethargy.

Atterbury.

Lethargy
(Leth"ar*gy), v. t. To lethargize. [Obs.] Shak.

Lethe
(Le"the) n. [See Lethal.] Death.[Obs.] Shak.