Lease vs Leese - What's the difference?
lease | leese |
(chiefly dialectal) to gather.
(chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
false; lying; deceptive
To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
an open pasture or common
*1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
*:Since as a child I used to lie
*:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
*:Never, I own, expected I
*:That life would all be fair.
To release; let go; unloose.
To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
To take or hold by lease.
To grant a lease; to let or rent.
A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
The period of such a contract
A leasehold
The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
(obsolete) To lose.
* Lord Burleigh
(obsolete) To release, set free.
(obsolete) To loosen, unfasten.
Leese is a alternative form of lease.
As verbs the difference between lease and leese
is that lease is to gather while leese is to lose.As an adjective lease
is false; lying; deceptive.As a noun lease
is falsehood; a lie.lease
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Verb
(leas)- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(leas)Etymology 4
From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(leas)Etymology 6
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(leas)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 7
From (leash)Noun
Anagrams
* English contranyms ----leese
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (only attested in compounds), from Germanic.Verb
(lees)- They would rather leese their friend than their jest.