Lese vs Lease - What's the difference?
lese | lease |
(obsolete) To lose.
(obsolete) To destroy.
(obsolete) To forsake or abandon.
(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.
As verbs the difference between lese and lease
is that lese is to lose while lease is to gather.As an adjective lease is
false; lying; deceptive.As a noun lease is
falsehood; a lie.lese
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(les)Anagrams
* ----lease
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Verb
(leas)- (Dryden)