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lease

verb intransitive

[L. lego.]

leez.

lease

noun
A demise or letting of lands, tenements or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, for a rent or compensation reserved; also, the contract for such letting.

lease

Any tenure by grant or permission. Our high placed Macbeth shall live the lease of nature.

lease

verb transitive

[Eng. let. See Le#.]

To let; to demise; to grant the temporary possession of lands, tenements or hereditaments to another for a rent reserved. A leased to B his land in Dale for the annual rent of a pepper corn.

lease

verb intransitive

[L. lego.]

leez. To glean; to gather what harvest men have left. Obs.