pease

name

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a seller or grower of peas.
2. A place in the United States:
3. A place in the United States:
4. A place in the United States:

noun

Etymology: From Middle English pese (“pea”), from Old English pise (“pea”), from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).

1. plural of pea

   “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.”

   “Experience ſhows that the common pea, whether white or grey, cannot be reared to perfection in any field which has not been either naturally or artificially impregnated with ſome calcareous matter.—Hence it happens, that peaſe are rarely cultivated univerſally as a field crop, unleſs in thoſe parts of the country where either lime, of marle, or chalk abound. But, on the ſeacoaſt, where ſhell-fiſh are often catched in abundance, we meet with a few exceptions to this general rule. It is pretty remarkable, that a ſoil which could hardly have made one pea come to perfection, although richly manured with dung,—if it ſhall have been once limed, ſhall be capable of producing abundant crops of peaſe ever afterwards, if duly prepared in other reſpects.”

verb

Etymology: From Anglo-Norman paiser, pesser et al., Old French paisier, aphetic form of apaisier (“to appease”). Probably also partly from aphetic use of appease.

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

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