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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lease \Lease\, n. [Cf. OF lais. See {Lease}, 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. --Warren's Blackstone. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lease \Lease\, v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lease \Lease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leased}; p. pr & vb n. {Leasing}.] [F. laisser OF laissier lessier, to leave transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus loose, wide. See {Lax}, and cf {Lesser}.] 1. To grant to another by lease the possession of as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p. pr & vb n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.] 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] ``I it you record.'' --Chaucer. 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.] They longed to see the day to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax. 3. To preserve the memory of by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like to make note of to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of to register; to enroll; as to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42. {To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lease n 1: property that is leased or rented out or let [syn: {rental}, {letting}] 2: a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment 3: the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect [syn: {term of a contract}] v 1: let for money; of housing [syn: {rent}] 2: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services [syn: {rent}, {hire}, {charter}] 3: grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners" [syn: {let}, {rent}] 4: engage in a commercial transaction; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: {rent}, {hire}, {charter}, {engage}, {take}]
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