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A pea. [Obs.] "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman.

ent; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton.

Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.

An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. [Obs.] Shak.

One who pleases or gratifies.

Caries of the vertebræ, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.

To press; to crowd. [Obs.] -- n.

To die sooner than. "If children predecease progenitors." Shak.

To increase again.

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

One to whom a release is given.

The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.

One who releases, or sets free.

A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease. Bouvier.

To please exceedingly. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Cessation; stop; end. "Not desire, but its surcease." Longfellow. It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.

Cessation. [Obs.]

To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth. Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.

One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also teaseller, teasler.]