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  1. noun Variant of lea.

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  • This was simply a little-used residence of a man named Benjamin Creeley, who'd died miles away and had not been to this house for a week before his death. —  The Cold Moon
  • After packing up her equipment she mentally shifted back to the Benjamin Creeley case and called the man's wife, Suzanne, to tell her that several men had broken into their Westchester house. —  The Cold Moon
  • What the hell had accountant/venture capitalist, two-home-owning, Beemer-driving Benjamin Creeley been doing in a place like this the day before he died? —  The Cold Moon
  • She flashed her badge, subtly, and then showed her a picture of Benjamin Creeley. —  The Cold Moon
  • She tried to get her head around a Benjamin Creeley' gang connection. —  The Cold Moon
 

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  1. Spanish, literally law, from Latin lex (leg-), law: see law and allay, alloy.
 

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