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leas
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?z
Noun
leas
- plural of lea
Anagrams
- ASLE, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, SEAL, Sale, Salé, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, sale, seal, sela
Galician
Verb
leas
- second-person singular present subjunctive of ler
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish less (“benefit, profit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??as?/
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /l??æs?/
Noun
leas m (genitive singular leasa)
- interest
- welfare, well-being
- benefit
Declension
Synonyms
- (interest): sainleas
- (benefit): sochar, tairbhe, buntáiste
Derived terms
- féinleas (“self-interest”)
- leasaigh (“to amend, reform, improve; to cure, preserve, dress, curry; to dress, manure, fertilize”)
- leasmhar (“interested”)
Latin
Noun
le?s
- accusative plural of lea
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /læ???s/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *lausaz (“loose, free, vacant”). Akin to Old Norse lauss, German los (“loose, free”). More at -less, loose.
Adjective
l?as (comparative l?asra, superlative l?asost)
- false, untrue
- devoid of, free from
- bereft of; without
- vain, worthless
Declension
Noun
l?as n
- falsehood, lie
- mistake
Declension
Derived terms
- l?asian (“to lie”)
- l?asettan (“to pretend”)
- l?asere
- l?ascræft (“deceit, art of lying”)
- l?asl??
Descendants
- English: -less, lease, leasing
Etymology 2
see l?ah.
Noun
l?as
- plural of l?ah
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
leas m
- benefit, advantage
Spanish
Verb
leas
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of leer.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of leer.
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leash
English
Etymology
From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), from Latin laxa (“thong, a loose cord”), feminine form of laxus (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /li??/
- Rhymes: -i??
- Homophone: Laois
Noun
leash (plural leashes)
- A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
- Synonym: lead
- c. 1605-1610, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 6
- like a fawning greyhound in the leash
- A brace and a half; a tierce.
- A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
- A group of three
- 1597, Henry IV part 1, by Shakespeare
- Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
- 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman
- [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette
- Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
- 1597, Henry IV part 1, by Shakespeare
- A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
- (surfing) A leg rope.
Translations
Verb
leash (third-person singular simple present leashes, present participle leashing, simple past and past participle leashed)
- To fasten or secure with a leash.
- (figuratively) to curb, restrain
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Antonyms
- unleash (verb)
Translations
References
- leash in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “leash”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
Anagrams
- Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, halse, heals, selah, shale, sheal
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