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# pease

«pease» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **peas** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

peas

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

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

### how it differs from today

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pease/#x2)

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pease» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/pease/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.