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▪ I. leaning, vbl. n.|liːnɪŋ|
[f. lean v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of lean v.1; inclination; reclining.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xx. 46 Þa forman hlininga [Vulg. primos discubitus]. c1440Promp. Parv. 295/1 Le(y)nynge, appodiacio. 1530Palsgr. 238/2 Leaning to, adhesion. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. 5 According to the leaning of the Chaps of your Vice. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 277 ⁋17 The various Leanings and Bendings of the Head. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 241 If the bricks..had all a certain leaning or bias in one direction out of the perpendicular. 1883Gilmour Mongols xxvii. 321 Inexplicable leanings and movements were seen about the shoulders.
b. Something to lean upon; † spec. the flat horizontal surface formed by the thickness of the wall on the inner and lower side of a window.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 894 Lenyng appuis. 1663Gerbier Counsel 20 Persons, who..affect low leanings, to make use either to sit on..or to shew themselves..to passengers.
2. fig. Inclination, bias; tendency, ‘penchant’.
1587Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 130 [An ‘Italianate’ Englishman says:] He is a foole that..will come in trouble for constant leaning to anie [religion]. 1795Burke Th. on Scarcity Wks. VII. 417 To these, great politicians may give a leaning, but they cannot give a law. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. ii. 37 The latter was as little suspected of an heterodox leaning as Petavius himself. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 231 The king was suspected by many of a leaning towards Rome. 1871Smiles Charac. x. (1876) 290 Frederick the Great..manifested his strong French leanings in his choice of books.
3. attrib. and Comb. (= ‘for leaning upon or against for rest or support’), as leaning-board, leaning-carpet, leaning-chair, leaning-cushion, leaning-place, leaning-post, leaning-staff, leaning-support; † leaning-height, the height of the ‘leaning’ (see 1 b spec.) of a window from the floor; also used adj. = next; † leaning-high a., of a height to lean upon; leaning-note Mus. = appoggiatura; leaning-stock, (a) a support (lit. and fig.); (b) in an organ, the ledge on which a pipe rests.
1533in Bayley Tower Lond. i. (1821) p. xx, It'm a *lenyng borde laide in y⊇ same chambre wyndow.
1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 53 A *leaning Carpet laid before them, and Seats to sit on.
1601Holland Pliny I. 485 *Leaning chairs, wherein a man or woman may gently take a nap, sitting at ease and repose most sweetly.
1586Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) II. 129 In the greate chambre..ij long *leaninge cushins.
1663Gerbier Counsel 19 The *leaning height of the Windowes, ought to be three Foot and a half. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. 124 They served for Podia or posaries of a leaning-height for which they had a slight cornice assign'd them.
1663Gerbier Counsel 49 As for the foundation of their building, it ought to be raised at first leaning hight; and then to let it rest to settle, for if only brought..a foot high above ground, it will be pusht down again, but being *leaning high, it will be preserved.
1811Busby Dict. Mus., Appogiature or *Leaning Note.
1530Palsgr. 238/2 *Leanyng place, apuy. 1533in Bayley Tower Lond. i. (1821) p. xix, A great carrall wyndow..and lenyng places made new to the same. a1850Rossetti Dante & Circ. i. (1874) 54 My face shows my heart's colour, verily, Which, fainting, seeks for any leaning-place.
1535Coverdale 2 Chron. ix. 18 It had two *leanynge postes vpon both the sydes of the seate.
c1440Promp. Parv. 295/2 *Le(y)nynge staffe, calopodium, podium. 1552Huloet, Lenynge staffe, podium.
1530Palsgr. 238/2 *Leanyng stoke, apuial. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. lvi. 335 They will be a sure and steadie leaning stocke to rest vppon. 1642Rogers Naaman 8 To worship Rimmon himself, and be his Masters leaning stock in that worship. 1852Seidel Organ 56 Sometimes this ledge, or leaning-stock of the pipe, has a semi-circular cut, into which the pipe leans back.
1875Ouseley Harmony xviii. 206 Appoggiaturas..are supposed to be a kind of buttress or *leaning support to the note before which they are placed.
▪ II. leaning, ppl. a.|ˈliːnɪŋ|
[f. lean v.1 + -ing2.]
That leans or inclines; † inclining towards a person in devotion or affection.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 919/1 [Wolsey] in whome the king receiued such a leaning fantasie, for that he [etc.]. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars iv. xxix, The wel-known right of the Earle of March alurd A leaning loue, whose cause he did pretend. 1697Dryden æneid viii. 311 The leaning head hung threatening o'er the flood, and nodded to the left. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §114 The..leaning tower of Pisa. 1835Willis Melanie 165 Hidden by yon leaning tree. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xii. 89 In front of us was a second leaning mass. |