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lǽs

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
lǽs, we, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§556;
A pasture, leasow [still found in local names]
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  • Lǽs

    pascua;

    gemǽne lǽs

    compascuus ager,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 96
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    • Som. 76, 44, 47
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    • Wrt. Voc. 53, 51, 54
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  • Se wudu and seó lǽs is gemǽne tó ðám án and twentigum hídum,

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. v. 319, 28
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  • Sceáp lǽswe ðínre

    oves pascuæ tuæ,

    • Ps. Spl. 73, 1
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    • 78, 14
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    • 94, 7
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    • 99, 4
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    • 22, 1
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  • Hit is gescræpe on lǽswe sceápa and neáta

    alendis apta pecoribus ac jumentis,

    • Bd. 1, 1
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    • S. 473, 14
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  • Ic wylle hí healdan on genihtsumere lǽse

    I will keep them in an abundant pasture,

    • Homl. Th. i. 242, 15
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  • On gemǽnre lǽse,

    • L. Edg. 5, 8
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    • Th. i. 274, 26
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    • 9
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    • Th. i. 276, 1
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    • L. R. S. 12
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    • Th. i. 438, 14
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  • Ic drífe sceáp míne tó heora leáse

    mino oves meas ad pascua ...

    Ic lǽde hig tó lǽse

    ego duco eos [boves] ad pascua,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 20, 13, 27
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  • Ne land ne lǽsse [lǽswe? MS. H. lǽse],

    • L. O. 14
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    • Th. i. 184, 7
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  • Fint lǽse [lésua, Lind: léswe, Rush.]

    pascua inveniet,

    • Jn. Skt. 10, 9
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  • Waldon ða swángeréfan ða lǽswe forður gedrífan,

    • Chart. Th. 70, 20
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  • Lǽswe

    pascua,

    • Wrt. Voc. 80, 49
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  • Lǽsa

    pascua,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 13
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    • Som. 16, 24
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  • Mid heora fæder heordum on lǽsum

    in pascendis gregibus patris,

    • Gen. 37, 12
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Etymology
[
O. E. Homl. leswe; acc
:
Laym. leswa [2nd MS. lesewes]; pl
:
A. R. leswe
:
Wick. leswe, lesewe
:
R. Glouc. lese. Tusser uses lease = pasture.
]
Similar entries
v. eten-lǽs.
Linked entries
v.  beó-lǽs læssa.
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