Also 7 lease. [f. LEASH sb.]
1. trans. To attach or connect by a leash.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., Prol. 7. And, at his heeles, (Leasht in, like Hounds), should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employment.
a. 1658. Lovelace, Lucasta Posth. (1659), 33. Cerberus, from below Must leash’d t’himself with him a hunting go.
1863. W. Phillips, Speeches, xvii. 374. We were then two snarling hounds leashed together.
b. fig. To link together, esp. in threes.
1854. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XV. I. 18. I prefer leashing together these points of the discussion.
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., x. (1890), 366. He [Crashaw] was a much younger man than either of the poets with whom we have leashed him.
1898. Reade, in New Century Rev., IV. 501. Yet were these rivals leashed by sacred ties.
2. † To beat or lash with a leash (obs.); to whip (dial.).
1503. Sc. Acts Jas. IV., c. 103 (ed. 1566). Gif ony childer … commit ony of thir thingis … their fathers … sall … deliuer the said childe to the juge, to be leichit, scurgeit and dung.
1583. Balfour, Practicks (1754), 27. Ordanis the Dean of Gilde … to gar leisch barnis that perturbis the kirk.
1592. Lyly, Midas, IV. iii. E 4. If I catch thee in the forest, thou shalt be leasht…. A boy leasht on the single.
1677. N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat. (ed. 2), 81. In many cases heretofore Leasing was observed; that is, one must be held, either cross a Saddle, or on a mans Back, and with a pair of Dog-couples receive ten pound and a Purse; that is, ten stripes … and an eleventh, that used to be as bad as the other ten, called a Purse.
1893. Northumbld. Gloss., Leash, leesh, to whip. ‘Leesh yor horse up, man.’
