[f. LEAKY a. + -NESS.] Leaky condition.
1628. Digby, Voy. Medit. (1868), 84. Because of her leakinesse and ill-sayling.
1835. Sir J. Ross, Narr. 2nd Voy., xxii. 324. Whence arose some of our leakiness.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 27 Sept., 5/2. If a kettle or a saucepan shows symptoms of leakiness, it is ruthlessly flung into the kennel.
