The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]z), v. i. [AS. lesan to gather; akin to D.
   lezen to gather, read, G. lesen, Goth. lisan to gather; cf.
   Lith lesti to peck.]
   To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.]
   --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leased; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Leasing.] [F. laisser, OF. laissier, lessier, to
   leave, transmit, L. laxare to loose, slacken, from laxus
   loose, wide. See Lax, and cf. Lesser.]
   1. To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of
      lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise;
      as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes
      with out.
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            There were some [houses] that were leased out for
            three lives.                          --Addison.
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   2. To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant
      leases his land from the owner.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lease \Lease\ (l[=e]s), n. [Cf. OF. lais. See Lease, v. t.]
   1. The temporary transfer of a possession to another person
      in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid
      for the transfer; especially, A demise or letting of
      lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life,
      for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest
      than that which the lessor has in the property, usually
      for a specified rent or compensation.
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   2. The contract for such letting.
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   3. Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such
      a tenure holds good; allotted time.
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            Our high-placed Macbeth
            Shall live the lease of nature.       --Shak.
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   Lease and release a mode of conveyance of freehold estates,
      formerly common in England and in New York. its place is
      now supplied by a simple deed of grant. --Burrill.
      --Warren's Blackstone.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
   F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
   cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
   1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
      [Obs.] "I it you record." --Chaucer.
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   2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
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            They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
            Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
                                                  --Fairfax.
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   3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to
      printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to
      write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose
      of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to
      enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to
      record historical events.
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            Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
            written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
                                                  42.
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   To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy
      of the same entered in the records of the office
      designated by law, for the information of the public.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

101 Moby Thesaurus words for "lease":
   adverse possession, alodium, bareboat charter, burgage, charter,
   claim, colony, copyhold, de facto, de jure, dependency,
   derivative title, equitable estate, estate at sufferance,
   estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy,
   estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, farm, farm out,
   fee, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute,
   fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible,
   fee simple determinable, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud,
   feudal estate, fief, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold,
   gavelkind, having title to, hire, hire out, hiring, hold, holding,
   job, knight service, lay fee, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend,
   leasehold, legal claim, legal estate, legal possession, lend-lease,
   let, let off, let out, mandate, occupancy, occupation,
   original title, owning, paramount estate, particular estate,
   possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession,
   prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights,
   remainder, rent, rent out, rental, reversion, seisin, socage,
   squatting, sublease, sublet, subrent, tenancy, tenantry, tenure,
   tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, underlet, undertenancy,
   usucapion, vested estate, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage