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pease

 (pēz)
n. pl. pease or peas·en (pē′zən) Archaic
A pea.
[Middle English; see pea.]
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pease

(piːz)
n, pl pease
(Plants) an archaic or dialect word for pea
[Old English peose, via Late Latin from Latin pisa peas, pl of pisum, from Greek pison]
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pease

(piz)

n., pl. pease. Archaic.
1. pea.
2. Brit. Dial. a pl. of pea.
[before 900; Middle English pese, Old English peose, pise < Latin pisa, pl. (taken as feminine singular) of pisum < Greek píson pea, pulse]
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pease

- The early English singular for pea.
See also related terms for pea.
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``Your stable,'' said he, ``is there your bed there; and,'' reaching down a platter with two handfuls of parched pease upon it from the neighbouring shelf, and placing it upon the table, he added,
The knight returned him thanks for his courtesy; and, this duty done, both resumed their seats by the table, whereon stood the trencher of pease placed between them.
a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches, than of pease and pulse.
You appear a man more fit to win the ram at a wrestling match, or the ring at a bout at quarter-staff, or the bucklers at a sword-play, than to linger out your time in this desolate wilderness, saying masses, and living upon parched pease and cold water.''
Your keeper is ever a jovial fellow; and none who beheld thy grinders contending with these pease, and thy throat flooded with this ungenial element, could see thee doomed to such horse-provender and horse-beverage,''
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For wheat, barley, and oats, they ask too much labor; but with pease and beans you may begin, both because they ask less labor, and because they serve for meat, as well as for bread.
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Horticulture seemed, however, to have been abandoned in the deserted kitchen-garden; and where cabbages, carrots, radishes, pease, and melons had once flourished, a scanty crop of lucerne alone bore evidence of its being deemed worthy of cultivation.
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"Munny, my iron's twite told; pease put it down to warm."
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