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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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              He . . . prayed him his voyage for to let.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets,
              But to her mother Nature all her care she lets.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              Let me alone in choosing of my wife.  --Chaucer.
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     2. To consider; to think; to esteem. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     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.]
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              This irous, cursed wretch
              Let this knight's son anon before him fetch.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              He . . . thus let do slay hem all three. --Chaucer.
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              Anon he let two coffers make.         --Gower.
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     4. To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively,
        by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain
        or prevent.
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     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.
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                 Pharaoh said, I will let you go.   --Ex. viii.
                                                    28.
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                 If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it
                 is.                                --Shak.
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     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.
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     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.
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     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.
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     {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.
  
     {To let fly} or {To let drive}, to discharge with violence,
        as a blow, an arrow, or stone. See under {Drive}, and
        {Fly}.
  
     {To let in} or {To let into}.
        (a) To permit or suffer to enter; to admit.
        (b) To insert, or imbed, as a piece of wood, in a recess
            formed in a surface for the purpose.
  
     {To let loose}, to remove restraint from; to permit to wander
        at large.
  
     {To let off}.
        (a) To discharge; to let fly, as an arrow; to fire the
            charge of, as a gun.
        (b) To release, as from an engagement or obligation.
            [Colloq.]
  
     {To let out}.
        (a) To allow to go forth; as, to let out a prisoner.
        (b) To extend or loosen, as the folds of a garment; to
            enlarge; to suffer to run out, as a cord.
        (c) To lease; to give out for performance by contract, as
            a job.
        (d) To divulge.
  
     {To let slide}, to let go; to cease to care for. [Colloq.] "
        Let the world slide." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -let \-let\ (-l[e^]t) suff. [From two French dim. endings -el
     (L. -ellus) and -et, as in bracelet.]
     A noun suffix having a diminutive force; as in streamlet,
     wavelet, armlet.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Let \Let\ (l[e^]t), v. t. [OE. letten, AS. lettan to delay, to
     hinder, fr. l[ae]t slow; akin to D. letten to hinder, G.
     verletzen to hurt, Icel. letja to hold back, Goth. latjan.
     See {Late}.]
     To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose. [Archaic]
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           He was so strong that no man might him let. --Chaucer.
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           He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of
           the way.                                 --2. Thess.
                                                    ii. 7.
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           Mine ancient wound is hardly whole,
           And lets me from the saddle.             --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Let \Let\, n.
     1. A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; --
        common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but
        elsewhere archaic. --Keats.
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              Consider whether your doings be to the let of your
              salvation or not.                     --Latimer.
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     2. (Lawn Tennis) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of
        the net in passing over.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Let \Let\, v. i.
     1. To forbear. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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     2. To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year.
        See note under {Let}, v. t.
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     {To let on}, to tell; to tattle; to divulge something. [Low]
        
  
     {To let up}, to become less severe; to diminish; to cease;
        as, when the storm lets up. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  LET
       n 1: the most brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights
            against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of
            India; "Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of
            civilian Hindus" [syn: {Lashkar-e-Taiba}, {Lashkar-e-Toiba},
             {Lashkar-e-Tayyiba}, {Army of the Pure}, {Army of the
            Righteous}]
       2: a serve that strikes the net before falling into the
          receiver's court; the ball must be served again [syn: {net
          ball}]
       v 1: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action
            for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush
            in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into
            the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"
            [syn: {allow}, {permit}] [ant: {prevent}]
       2: actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that
          I was not interested"
       3: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit
          her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her
          basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: {permit},
           {allow}, {countenance}] [ant: {forbid}, {forbid}]
       4: cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or
          condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in
          for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" [syn: {get},
           {have}]
       5: leave unchanged; "let it be"
       6: grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am
          leasing my country estate to some foreigners" [syn: {lease},
           {rent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  161 Moby Thesaurus words for "let":
     OK, accord, accredit, admit, allow, approve, arrest, arrestation,
     arrestment, assume, authorize, bareboat charter, be afraid,
     believe, bleed, blockage, blocking, broach, certify, charter,
     chartered, check, clogging, closing up, closure, commission,
     concede, conceive, conclude, consent, consider, constriction,
     cramp, daresay, decant, deduce, deem, delay, detainment, detention,
     dispense, divine, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from,
     draw off, dream, employed, empty, endorse, exhaust, expect, fancy,
     farm, farm out, feel, fixation, foot-dragging, gather, give leave,
     give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, grant,
     hampering, have, hindering, hindrance, hire, hire out, hired,
     hireling, hiring, holdback, holdup, imagine, impediment, infer,
     inhibition, interference, interruption, job, lease, lease out,
     lease-back, lease-lend, leased, leave, lend-lease, let be,
     let blood, let off, let out, license, make possible, mercenary,
     milk, negativism, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism,
     occlusion, okay, opine, opposition, paid, permit, phlebotomize,
     pipette, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise,
     provisionally accept, pump, pump out, reckon, release, rent,
     rent out, rental, rented, repression, repute, resistance,
     restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, sanction, say,
     say the word, setback, siphon off, squeeze, stranglehold,
     stricture, sublease, subleased, sublet, subrent, suck, suck out,
     suffer, suppose, suppression, surmise, suspect, take, take for,
     take for granted, take it, take to be, tap, think, underlet,
     understand, venesect, vouchsafe
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LET. Hindrance, obstacle, obstruction; as, without let, molestation or 
  hindrance. 
  
  

















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