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. Warren's Blackstone.
Lease"hold` (?), a. Held by lease.
Lease"hold`, n. A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as
personalty under a lease for years.
Lease"hold`er (?), n. A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. &
n.
Leas"er (?), n. [From 1st Lease.] One who leases or gleans. [Obs.]
Swift.
Leas"er, n. A liar. [Obs.] See Leasing.
Leash (?), n. [OE. lese, lees, leece, OF. lesse, F. laisse, LL. laxa,
fr. L. laxus loose. See Lax.] 1. A thong of leather, or a long cord, by
which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash.
Shak.
2. (Sporting) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of
any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the
number three in general.
[I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
B. Jonson.
Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
Tennyson.
3. (Weaving) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads,
in a loom.
Leash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Leashing.] To
tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Leas"ing (?), n. [AS. leásung, fr. leás loose, false, deceitful. See
-less, Loose, a.] The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies. [Archaic]
Spenser.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing.
Ps. v. 6.
Blessed be the lips that such a leasing told.
Fairfax.
Leasing making (Scots Law), the uttering of lies or libels upon the
personal character of the sovereign, his court, or his family. Bp.
Burnet.