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▪ I. † ˈleeser1 Obs.
Also 4 lesar, -er.
[f. leese v.1 + -er1.]
1. A destroyer. (Cf. leese v.1 3.)
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 31 Þe fals world þat is leser of alle þat it loven. Ibid. 470 Lesars of mennys soulis.
2. A loser.
1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 366 The Protestantes ar leesers by the withdrawinge of theyr armye. a1575R. Cheney Let. in Abp. Parker's Corr. (Parker Soc.) 139 If your pleasure be that I only shall be a leeser..I will hold me content with 40l. loss. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxiii. xxvii, Then winners bost, when leesers speake their fill.
▪ II. ˈleeser2
In 4 leser.
[f. leese v.2 + -er1.]
A deliverer.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxliii. 2 Mi helper and leser mine. |
