Definition of "leese"

leese¹

/liːz/

verb
third-person singular simple present leeses, present participle leesing, simple past lore or leesed, past participle lorn or leesed
1. (obsolete) To lose.
  Quotations
  But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
  They would rather leese their friend than their jest.
  a. 1598, William Cecil, Advice to his son
  Yet better leave off with a little losse, Then by much wrestling to leese the grosse
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Aegloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,
  Take heed you leese it not, 'signior, ere you come there; preserve it.
  1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

leese²

/liːz/

verb
third-person singular simple present leeses, present participle leesing, simple past and past participle leesed
1. (obsolete) To release, set free.
2. (obsolete) To loosen, unfasten.

leese³

/liːz/

verb
1. (obsolete, transitive) To hurt.