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Quotation dates: 1683
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(Leper-,) Leopered, Leopared, a. [? e.m.E. leap(e)red (1598, 1602) infected with or as with leprosy.] ? Covered with scales, made ‘leprous’. — 1683 Reid Sc. Gard'ner (ed. 1) 94.
If it [the ground] be leopared with unskilfull dunging or by noysome weeds that grows about such roots 1683 Id. Gard'ners Kal. 14.
Lay bair leopered tree roots and remove what harms them
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