Leaning - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: leaningDrince-lean, or drink-lean
Drince-lean, or drink-lean, a contribution from tenants in the time of the Saxons towards a potation, or ale provided to entertain the lord or his steward....
Lean
Lean, means (1) to incline or tend in opinion or preference. A court is sometimes said to 'lean against' the position of one of the advocates before it, meaning that the court regards the advocate's position disfavorably; (2) to yield; to submit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 897....
Leaning
The act or state of inclining inclination tendency as a leaning towards Calvinism...
Leanness
The condition or quality of being lean...
Emacerate
To make lean or to become lean to emaciate...
Barebone
A very lean person one whose bones show through the skin...
Biltong
Lean meat cut into strips and sun dried...
Breastheight
The interior slope of a fortification against which the garrison lean in firing...
Careen
To cause a vessel to lean over so that she floats on one side leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line to case to be off the keel...
Chichevache
A fabulous cow of enormous size whose food was patient wives and which was therefore in very lean condition...
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