Obs. [f. LEAK a. + -NESS.] Leakiness.
1508. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 439. And cum within the hawin and port of the said burgh, be ane north eist wind and lekness of ane of thair said schippis.
1625. J. Glanvill, Voy. Cadiz, 83. The leakness of his shipp.