To gather; pick; pick up; pick out; select.Specifically To glean, as corn.To glean; gather up leavings, as at harvest.To grant the temporary possession of, as lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to another for compensation at a fixed rate; let; demise.To take a lease of, or to take, as lands, etc., by a lease: as, he leased the farm from the proprietor.n. A contract transferring a right to the possession and enjoyment of real property for life or for a definite period of time or at will, usually made in consideration of a periodical compensation called rent, in modern times usually payable in money, but sometimes in a share of the produce, and in former times frequently in services.n. The written instrument by which a leasehold estate is created.n. The duration of tenure by lease; a term of leasing; hence, the terminable time or period of anything: as, to take property on a long lease; a short lease of life.False; lying; deceptive.n. Falsehood; a lie.n. A pasture.n. A common.n. In weaving, the system of crossings in the warp-threads in a loom between the yarn-beam and the heddles, effected by passing each warp-thread alternately over and under the lease-rods.n. In Australian mining, a mining leasehold; a piece of ground leased for the purpose of mining.