Leave

1. n. The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; — used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
2. v. i. To send out leaves; to leaf; — often with out.
3. v. t. To raise; to levy.
4. n. Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
5. v. To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
6. v. To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
7. v. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit — with a sense of withdrawing one’s self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.
8. v. To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.
9. v. i. To depart; to set out.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.