Pease

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  1. A pea. See pea. Sum tyme it happenethe that men fynden summe as grete as a pese, and summe lasse; and thei ben als harde as tho of Ynde. Mandeville, Travels, p. 158. Not unlike unto the unskilfull painter, who having drawn the twinnes of Hippocrates (who were as like as one pease is to another) … Lyly, Euphues and his England. Lenticula is a poultz [pulse] called chittes, whiche … I translate peason. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 101, margin.
  2. Peas collectively. For the distinction between peas and pease, see pea. Hit most be a cnect, a crouned wyght That knowth that quaysy [sickness] from ben & pese. Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 215. Al kyndes of pulse, as beanes, peason, fytches, tares, and suche other, are rype twyse in the yeare [in Hispaniola]. R. Eden, tr. of Peter Martyr (First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 73).
  3. A small size of coal: same as pea-coal. R. Wilson, Steam Boilers, p. 268.
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  • Priscilla Pease, a teacher who survived the attack, said that Voong had been a student in the "level 2 intermediate" English class but had recently stopped attending regularly. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • Randy Pease, also an architect at the firm, says another special feature of the new toilet-shower buildings in the state park system is the high degree of accessibility for disabled users. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • Nelson said the high court chose the 1999 chair - Janine Pease, a college professor and Crow tribal member with experience in voting-rights cases - because she was the best-qualified candidate. —  billingsgazette.com
  • Lisa Pease is a historian and writer who specializes in the mysteries of the John F. Kennedy era. here. —  Consortiumnews.com
  • Hughes launched the petition drive with Allison Pease, another Durango mother, shortly after Lynch was arrested Aug. 9 on suspicion of entering the La Plata County Humane Society after hours to retrieve his dog. —  Durangoherald.com
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  1. from Middle English pese, pyse, plural pesen, peson, pesyn, also peses (and, with loss of the plural suffix, pese, to which, regarded as a plural, is due the modern English form pea), from Anglo-Saxon pise, piose, plural pisan, pysan, pyosan = Old French peis, pois, French pois = Old Italian *piso, Italian diminutive pisello, from Latin pisum, a pea, = Greek πίσος, also πίσον, a pea.
 

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