n. [ See List to choose. ] Lust; desire; pleasure. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To listen. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Last; least. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
conj. [ OE. leste, fr. AS. ð&ymacr_; l&aemacr_;s ðē the less that, where ð&ymacr_; is the instrumental case of the definite article, and ðē is an indeclinable relative particle, that, who, which. See The, Less, a. ]
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. x. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]
I feared
Lest I might anger thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Pg., prob. fr. Fr. l'est the east. ] (Meteor.) A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]