Pease

Quick meaning: Pease is a noun meaning (archaic) Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”).

Meaning

(archaic) Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”).

More Meanings

1. (archaic) plural of pea
2. (obsolete) To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.
3. (obsolete) To bring (a war, conflict) to an end.
4. (obsolete) To placate, appease (someone).

Example Sentences

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, […]

And yf this come to the rulers eares, we wyll pease him, and make you safe.

It was fiercely cold, but I was a good deal warmed when the lad who drove me, talking of the crops of the country, spoke of “the peasen.” Thank God! I said to myself, there is still some smack of old England left in the land.

The due proportion for any land (except it be a very light blowing ſand) is two beans for one pea; by which means, they will be (without doubt) a ſtanding crop, as the beans will be (as it were, a rodding for the peaſe; in this caſe they are aſſiſtants to each other; for as the peaſe are kept ſtanding, and form (as it were) an arch over the top of the bean, the circulating air is admitted round them to aſſiſt in feeding the corning part thereof.

Word Forms

• peasen
• peases
• peasing
• peased

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