2. Verb. (third-person singular of leaven) ¹
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Definition of Leavens
1. leaven [v] - See also: leaven
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leavens
Literary usage of Leavens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to by William Richard Cutter (1908)
"The immigrant ancestor of leavens William leavens, of Med- ford, ... (II) John
leavens, the eldest son of John leavens, was born in Roxbury, April 27, ..."
2. Men of Mark in Connecticut: Ideals of American Life Told in Biographies and edited by Norris Galpin Osborn (1906)
"He is descended from George Lilley, who settled in Beading, Massachusetts, in 1636.
Mr. Lilley's father was John leavens Lilley, a farmer and ..."
3. History of the Settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario): With Special Reference by William Canniff (1869)
"NOXEN, leavens, HICKS, SAND. Among the early settlers of the Bay were a goodly
number of the Society of Friends Some of them were natives of Pennsylvania; ..."
4. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"Gaines, 104 US 406, 26 L. Ed. 764, cases growing out of same cause of litigation;
Estate of leavens, 65 Wis. 451, 27 NW 329, holding County Court may set ..."
5. A General Digest of the Law of Corporations: Presenting the American by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1869)
"leavens, 4 Ala. N. 8. 753. 22. In Pennsylvania, stock standing in a debtor's name
on the books of a corporation, may be seized and sold, either on fieri ..."
6. A Treatise on Commercial Paper and the Negotiable Instruments Law: Including by James Webster Eaton, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1903)
"Mandeville, 56 Iowa, 597, 5 NW 776, 41 Am. Rep. 123: Dull v. Bricker. 76 Pa. St.
255. Pee also note to Allen v. leavens, 26 LRA 320. Colorado.— Durkee v. ..."
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