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leveret|ˈlɛvərɪt|
Forms: 6 leverette, leav-, lyveret, 7 leverit, levoret, levart, -et, -it, 5– leveret.
[ad. OF. levrete, levrette, dim. of levre (F. lièvre) hare.]
1. A young hare, strictly one in its first year.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 592/22 Lepusculus, a leveret. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1553) H vj b, The mawe of a yong leuerette with the iuice of plantaine, is excedinge profitable. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 211 In ancient time, if the Hunters had taken a young Leverit, they let her go again in the honour of Diana. 1688J. Clayton in Phil. Trans. XVIII. 123, I have seen Leverets there with the white spot in the Head, which the Old ones have not. 1759Johnson Idler No. 81 ⁋6 [It] is the claim..of the vulture to the leveret. 1814Cary Dante's Inf. xxiii. 16 More fell They shall pursue us, than the savage hound Snatches the leveret. 1835Grimshawe Life Cowper (1865) 35/2 On his expressing a wish to divert himself by rearing a single leveret,..his neighbours supplied him with three.
†2. transf. and fig.
a. A pet, a mistress.
b. A spiritless person. Obs.
1617S. Collins Def. Bp. Ely (1628) 54 Theres a Leuite of the Iesuits, or a prettie leuorite rather, to sucke a Kings heart-blood in time. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. iii. iii. §28 (1670) 371 Arrogant Boasters,..leverets in dangers. 1637Shirley Gamester i. i, Some wife will bid her husband's leverets welcome. 1640Dk. Newcastle Country Capt. ii. i. (1649) 23 You meane, one wenche betweene us too is nothing: I know a hundred Leveretts.
3. attrib.: leveret-skin, a Japanese glaze applied to ceramic ware, supposed to resemble leveret's fur.
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