Definition of Leasing

1. n. The act of lying; falsehood; a lie or lies.

Definition of Leasing

1. Noun. (archaic) A lie; the act of lying, falsehood. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of lease) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leasing

1. a falsehood [n -S] - See also: falsehood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leasing

leasees
leasehold
leaseholder
leaseholders
leaseholds
leaser
leasers
leases
leash
leash up
leashed
leashes
leashing
leashless
leashlike
leasing (current term)
leasings
leasow
leasowe
leasowed
leasowes
leasowing
leasows
least
least(a)
least-squares analysis
least-weasel
least bittern
least common multiple
least common multiples

Literary usage of Leasing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1826)
"And therefore he says, it was, that the spreading of evil bruite or fame, against the king of France, or his subjects, was leasing by the act 60 ..."

2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"Where the tenant for life has a power of leasing under certain conditions, the lease must conform strictly to the conditions.1 Under a power of leasing for ..."

3. The Modern Law of Real Property: With an Introduction for the Student, and by Louis Arthur Goodeve (1885)
"(u) S. 18, §§ 11, 17. (p) S. 18, §§ 18, 14. As to the detrimental efl'ect on the mortgagee of excluding the mortgagor's power of leasing, we note by Messrs. ..."

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