資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{To let} {drive or fly}, to discharge with violence, as a
blow, an arrow, or stone. See under {Drive}, and {Fly}.
{To let in} or 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.