pease

«pease» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: peas — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

peas

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Peas, the small round green vegetables; the old plural of pea. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say peas, and "pease" survives only in old texts or names such as pease-pudding.

examples

• The witch made pease-soup of it, and set it before the daughter. (The Red Fairy Book) tree →
• One day the youngest child was sent to drive the sparrows away from her grandfather's pease. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pease» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.