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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Let \Let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Let} ({Letted} (l[e^]t"t[e^]d), [Obs].); p. pr & vb n. {Letting}.] [OE. leten, l[ae]ten (past tense lat, let p. p. laten, leten, lete), AS l[=ae]tan (past tense l[=e]t, p. p. l[=ae]ten); akin to OFries l[=e]ta, OS l[=a]tan, D. laten, G. lassen, OHG. l[=a]zzan, Icel. l[=a]ta, Sw l[*a]ta, Dan. lade, Goth. l[=e]tan, and L. lassus weary. The original meaning seems to have been to let loose, let go let drop. Cf {Alas}, {Late}, {Lassitude}, {Let} to hinder.] 1. To leave to relinquish; to abandon. [Obs. or Archaic, except when followed by alone or be.] He . . . prayed him his voyage for to let --Chaucer. Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, But to her mother Nature all her care she lets --Spenser. Let me alone in choosing of my wife. --Chaucer. 2. To consider; to think; to esteem. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. To cause to make -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense as let make i. e., cause to be made let bring i. e., cause to be brought. [Obs.] This irous, cursed wretch Let this knight's son anon before him fetch. --Chaucer. He . . . thus let do slay hem all three --Chaucer. Anon he let two coffers make --Gower. 4. To permit; to allow to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent. Note: In this sense when followed by an infinitive, the latter is commonly without the sign to as to let us walk, i. e., to permit or suffer us to walk. Sometimes there is entire omission of the verb as to let [to be or to go] loose. Pharaoh said I will let you go --Ex. viii. 28. If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is --Shak. 5. To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out -- often with out as to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses. 6. To give grant, or assign, as a work privilege, or contract; -- often with out as to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering. Note: The active form of the infinitive of let as of many other English verbs, is often used in a passive sense as a house to let (i. e., for letting, or to be let). This form of expression conforms to the use of the Anglo-Saxon gerund with to (dative infinitive) which was commonly so employed. See {Gerund}, 2. `` Your elegant house in Harley Street is to let.'' --Thackeray. In the imperative mood, before the first person plural, let has a hortative force. `` Rise up let us go.'' --Mark xiv. 42. `` Let us seek out some desolate shade.'' --Shak. {To let alone}, to leave to withdraw from to refrain from interfering with {To let blood}, to cause blood to flow; to bleed. {To let down}. a To lower. b To soften in tempering; as to let down tools, cutlery, and the like From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lette \Let"te\ (l[e^]t"te), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Letted}.] To let to hinder. See {Let}, to hinder. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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