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Definitions for Leavings
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Wiktionary
leavingsnoun
A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.
leavingsnoun
A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Leavingsnoun
Remnant; relicks; offal: it has no singular.
Etymology: from leave.
My father has this morning call’d together,
To this poor hall, his little Roman senate,
The leavings of Pharsalia. Joseph Addison, Cato.Then who can think we’ll quit the place,
Or stop and light at Cloe’s head,
With scraps and leavings to be fed. Jonathan Swift.
Webster Dictionary
Leavings
things left; remnants; relics
Leavings
refuse; offal
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Leavings
lēv′ingz, n.pl. things left: relics: refuse.—n. Leav′ing-shop, an unlicensed pawnshop.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
LEAVINGS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Leavings is ranked #158432 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Leavings surname appeared 102 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Leavings.
72.5% or 74 total occurrences were White.
24.5% or 25 total occurrences were Black.
Anagrams for Leavings »
svengali
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Leavings in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Leavings in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Leavings in a Sentence
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
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