esplees

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin expletia, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French espleit. Compare exploit.

Noun

1. (law, UK, obsolete) The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “esplees”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• sleepes