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▪ I. leasow, n. Now dial.|ˈliːsəʊ, ˈlɛzə|
Forms: 1 pl. lǽswe, léswe, Northumb. lésua, 3 ? lewse, pl. leswa, 3–6 lesewe, 4 leswe, 4–6 lesue, 5 leseo, liswe, 5, 7 lesow, 6 leassewe, leyssue, Sc. lesoue, 7– leasow. β. (chiefly Sc.) 6 lesur(e, lyssoure, lasor, 7 leissoure, leasure, lizure, 8 lizor, 9 lizzure, leissure.
[See lease n.1]
Pasture; pasturage; meadow-land.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. John x. 9 Inn-færeð & ut-færeð & lesua [Rushw. leswe, Ags. & Hatton Gosp. læse] ᵹemoetað. 10..Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 325/25 Pascua, læswe. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Ðis oref is swiðe egerne and fecheð his leswe hwile uppen trewes, and hwile uppen cliues. c1205Lay. 2011 Bi-heold he þa leswa [c 1275 lesewes] & þene leofliche wode. a1225Ancr. R. 94 Ine heouene is large leswe. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1576 Ydumea, ðat fulsum lond, Of lewse god, was in hise hond. 1382Wyclif Ps. xciv. [xcv.] 7 Wee the puple of his leswe; and the shep of his hond. ― Jer. xxiii. 1 Wo to the shepperdis, that scateren and to-tern the floc of my leswe, seith the Lord. c1440R. Glouc. Chron. 1005 (MS. δ) Hor leseo lasteth euere. Ibid. 7701 Lesow he ȝaf þer to. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 35 §4 Medowes lesues pastures. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 174 Lesurs pasturs weies pathes wetingli and uniustli..witholden. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 183 In lyssouris and on leys litill lammis Full tait and trig socht bletand to thar dammis. 1547Newminster Cartul. (1878) 310 All lands medows leyssues and pastures. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 27 A pasture, or as we say, a Lesoue. 1658Disposition in Jamieson Dict. s.v. Lesuris, Meadows, leissoureis and pasturages. 1699Ibid., Water stanks, lizures, pasturages. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 293 Having a Lesow quite overrun with well grown broom. 1799Trans. Soc. Arts xvii. 126 Coarse meadows, or what are called leasows, being rough woody pastures. 1825–80Jamieson, Leissure, Lizzure. a1845Hood Town & Country xv, I hold no Leasowes in my lease, No cot set round with trees. 1852J. Wiggins Embanking 139 After feeding all the summer on the higher grounds, called leasows or leazes in the dairy counties. 1894S.E. Worcester Gloss, Lezzow, a meadow.
▪ II. ˈleasow, v. Obs. or dial.
In 1 lǽs(w)ian, 3 leswe, leswue, 3–4 lesewe, 4 lesuwe, lisewe, 4–5 lesowe, 7 lessow.
[OE. lǽswian (also lǽsian), f. lǽsw-, lǽs leasow n., lease n.1]
trans. and intr. To pasture, graze.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke viii. 32 Wæs ðonne ðer ede vel sunor berᵹana moniᵹo foedendra vel lesuuandra [Ags. Gosp. læsiendra]. c1000ælfric Gen. xli. 2 (Gr.) Hiᵹ man læswode on morium lande. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 39 Þe selue herdes beð þe lorþewes of holi chiriche þe leseweð here orf. a1225Ancr. R. 100 And leswe þine ticchenes bi heordmonne hulen, of ris & of leaues. 1382Wyclif Matt. viii. 30 A floc..of many hoggis lesewynge was nat fer from hem. ― 1 Cor. ix. 7 Who feedith or lesuwith a floc, and etith not of the mylk of the flok? c1425Wyntoun Cron. i. v. 212 As catell lesowyde in and oute. 1604Drayton Moses 28 Gently his faire flocks lessow'd he along. 1825–80Jamieson, Lesure, both as a s. and as a v., is still used in the pastoral districts of Ayrs., Renfrs., and Lanarks.
Hence ˈleasowed (lesewed) ppl. a.
1382Wyclif 1 Kings iv. 23 Ten fatte oxen, twenti lesewed oxen [1388 oxis of lesewe, Vulg. pascuales]. |