Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Leese \Leese\ (l[=e]z), v. t. [See {Lose}.]
   To lose. [Obs.]

         They would rather leese their friend than their jest.
                                                  --Lord
                                                  Burleigh.

Leese \Leese\, v. t. [Cf. F. l['e]ser, L. laesus, p. p. of
   laedere.]
   To hurt. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.