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Definition of Leary
1. Noun. United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996).
Definition of Leary
1. leery [adj LEARIER, LEARIEST] - See also: leery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leary
Literary usage of Leary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"In 1782 O'leary publicly announced his support of the Irish national volunteer
... 1784 : ' O'leary has been talked to by Mr. Nepean, and he is willing to ..."
2. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1869)
"It was singular, but it was fact, that even before Father O'leary opened his
lips, a stranger would say, " That is an Irishman," and at the same time guess ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"Proceedings on the Trial of JOHN leary for High Treason, before the Court holden
under a ... JOHN leary was arraigned upon the following indictment, ..."
4. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"ELLEN O'leary THE Fenian movement differed from that of 1848 in being ...
Miss O'leary was born in Tipperary, 1831, and from about her twentieth year was a ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"James D. leary died intestate in April, 1902, leaving him surviving a widow, ...
The widow, Mary C. leary, was soon appointed sole administratrix of his ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogate's Courts of the by Charles Hood Mills (1918)
"After the death of James D. leary this plaintiff and his brother, George leary,
and his sister, Marie C. leary, assigned, transferred and set over unto Mary ..."
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