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Definition of Lean against
1. Verb. Rest on for support. "You can lean on me if you get tired"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lean Against
Literary usage of Lean against
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... precedent to any binding contract, the court should lean against that construction
which imposes upon the assured the obligations of a warranty. ..."
2. The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces by John Marshall (1805)
"Expedition under colonel M'lean against Penobscot....The British post at Powles-hook
surprised by major Lee, and the garrison made prisoners. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Henry Maddock, Thomas Huntington (1827)
"The Courts, therefore, lean against *con- [* struing a Legacy to be specific (I) ; (l)
since, contrary to the probable intention of the Testator, ..."
4. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... ku, то lean against, ... pa mírala, to lean against the verandah post, lean
upon a log of wood, or against a rock. ..."
5. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver August Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1898)
"... the decree below is, that the Judges in Ireland lean against covenants for
perpetual renewal: that is a reason which ought not to influence this House. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Torts: Or the Wrongs which Arise Independently of by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, John Lewis (1907)
"... and a school superintendent for maliciously refusing a license to teach.55 If
courts lean against recognizing in such officers full discretionary powers ..."
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