Lease
lease (?), v. i. (AS. lesan togather; akin to D. lezen to gather, read, G. lesen,
Goth. lisan to gather; cf. Lith lesti to peck.) To
gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. (Obs.)
Dryden.
lease (?), v. t. (imp. p. pr. to let;
to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; --
sometimes with out.
There were some (houses) that were leased out
for three lives. Addison.
2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of;
as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
lease (?), n. (Cf. OF. lais. SeeLease, v. t.) 1. A
demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another
for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest
than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a
specified rent or compensation.
2. The contract for such letting.
3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the
time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
Our high-placed Macbeth
Shall live the lease of nature. Shak.
Lease and release a mode of conveyance of
freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its
place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant.
Burrill. Warrens Blackstone.
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