different between leash vs creance

English

Etymology

From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), from Latin laxa (“thong, a loose cord”), feminine form of laxus (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??
• Homophone: Laois

Noun

leash (plural leashes)

1. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

   Synonym: lead

   • c. 1605-1610, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 6

     like a fawning greyhound in the leash

2. A brace and a half; a tierce.
3. A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
4. A group of three
   • 1597, Henry IV part 1, by Shakespeare

     Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.

   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.

   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman

     [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette

     Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.

5. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
6. (surfing) A leg rope.

Translations

Verb

leash (third-person singular simple present leashes, present participle leashing, simple past and past participle leashed)

1. To fasten or secure with a leash.
2. (figuratively) to curb, restrain
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

Antonyms

• unleash (verb)

Translations

References

• leash in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “leash”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, halse, heals, selah, shale, sheal

English

Etymology

From Middle English creaunce, from Old French creance. See credence.

Noun

creance (plural creances)

1. (obsolete) faith; belief; creed

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

2. (falconry) A long leash, or lightweight cord used to prevent escape of a hawk during training flights.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12:

     Even as horses led by hand doe sometimes bound and start out of the way, but no further then their halters length, and neverthelesse follow ever his steps that leadeth them; And as a Hawke takes his flight but under the limits of hir cranes or twyne.

Verb

creance (third-person singular simple present creances, present participle creancing, simple past and past participle creanced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To get on credit; to borrow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French creance, croiance, from Late Latin credentia, or from créant.

Noun

creance f (plural creances)

1. faith; belief

Old French

Noun

creance f (oblique plural creances, nominative singular creance, nominative plural creances)

1. Alternative form of credance