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# pease

noun

«pease» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Peas, the small round green vegetables; the old plural of pea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pease/#m1)

### Then and now

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pease/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pease/#x2)

### Note

Today: peas.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pease» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pease/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pease» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/pease.html) on Mova free.