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  • English Word Lief Definition Same as Lif.
  • English Word Lief Definition Dear; beloved.
  • English Word Lief Definition Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable.
  • English Word Lief Definition Willing; disposed.
  • English Word Lief Definition A dear one; a sweetheart.
  • English Word Lief Definition Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.
  • English Word Liefsome Definition Pleasing; delightful.
  • English Word Liegance Definition Same as Ligeance.
  • English Word Liege Definition Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
  • English Word Liege Definition Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
  • English Word Liege Definition Full; perfect; complete; pure.
  • English Word Liege Definition A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
  • English Word Liege Definition The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
  • English Word Liegeman Definition Same as Liege, n., 2.
  • English Word Liegemen Definition of Liegeman
  • English Word Lieger Definition A resident ambassador.
  • English Word Liegiancy Definition See Ligeance.
  • English Word Lien Definition of Lie
  • English Word Lien Definition of Lie. See Lain.
  • English Word Lien Definition A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.
  • English Word Lienal Definition Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.
  • English Word Lienculi Definition of Lienculus
  • English Word Lienculus Definition One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.
  • English Word Lieno-intestinal Definition Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog.
  • English Word Lienteric Definition Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery.
  • English Word Lienteric Definition A lientery.
  • English Word Lientery Definition A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change.
  • English Word Lier Definition One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.
  • English Word Lierne rib Definition In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.
  • English Word Lieu Definition Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of.