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A leash. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

See Lesbianism.

Unnatural sexual relations between women.

To lose. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Leze majesty.

A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.

Unless. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone.

To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune. Charity . . . shall lessen his punishment. Calamy. St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it. Atterbury.

One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers (1839).

Less; smaller; inferior. God made . . . the lesser light to rule the night. Gen. i. 15.

The leavings or dung of beasts.

cept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing." A smooth and pleasing lesson." Milton. Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind. Chaucer.

One who leases; the person who lets to farm, or gives a lease. Blackstone.

For Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 18. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth he standeth take heed lest he fall. I Cor. x. 12.

A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.

Without accent.