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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| leasing |
| SYLLABICATION: | leas·ing |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l  s ng |
| NOUN: | Archaic 1. The act of lying. 2. A lie; a falsehood. |
| ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English lesing, from Old English lasung, from lasian, to lie, from las, untrue. See leu- in Appendix I.
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