lese

Verb (1)

leese (third-person singular simple present leeses, present participle leesing, simple past lore or leesed, past participle lorn or leesed)

1. (obsolete) To lose.
   • But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,
     Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
2. (obsolete) To destroy.
3. (obsolete) To forsake or abandon.

Verb (2)

leese (third-person singular simple present leeses, present participle leesing, simple past and past participle leesed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To release; let go; set free.
2. (obsolete) To loosen, unfasten.

Verb (3)

leese

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hurt.

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