Lief is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIEF in dictionary:

VERB:
• Willing; disposed.
• Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.
NOUN:
• a beloved
• Same as Lif.
• Dear; beloved.
• Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable.
• A dear one; a sweetheart.
• beloved person
ADVERB:
• as happily; as gladly
• in a willing manner
• gladly
ADJECTIVE:
• (archaic) soon, gladly, also LEVE, LIEVE
• ready
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• willing

Words related to LIEF

gladly11 liefer9 liefest10 liefly12 liefs8 liever9 lievest10 loor4

How to use LIEF in a sentence

• We should say that we had quite as lief have the air full of those iron spheres, termed Cannon Balls, as it is now in France.
• The first land discovered in this voyage was barren and rocky, on which account Lief gave it the name of Helleland, or Rockland.
• Next summer Lief sailed again to Winland, and explored the coast to the east or south-east.
• His band had as lief appear in one province where it was least expected as make a descent upon another that was preparing to resist it.
• Bailiff ate heartily, but his clerk would not touch, saying he had as lief chew soap.
• Last of all went Master Ratsey, saying, he saw that I would as lief be alone, and that he would come back before dark.
• Justice Holmes, arranged with introductory notes, by Alfred Lief, with a foreword by Harold J.
• In one of these Tyrker, a native of a part of Europe where grapes grew, found vines hung with their fruit, which induced Lief to call the country Vinland.
• Lief had now a goodly store both of property and honor.
• Now Thorvald, with the advice of his brother, Lief, prepared to make this voyage with thirty men.
• Thorfinn Karlsefni, who was a very wealthy man, passed the winter there in Greenland, with Lief Ericsson.
• Lief replied that he would lend it but not give it.
• It seemed to me then that I would as lief be shot and have done with it.
• But perhaps you young ladies may not care about the beaux, and had as lief be without them as with them.
• They would as lief snap off the hand that reared and feeds them as not.
• He sought democratic equality, and he would as lief think of bringing the Kaiser to his level as exalting himself to the plane of that immortal celebrity.
• She might as lief marry as not, when she was away on her travels.
• He would as lief have cut off his hand as break his promise to the coach.
• Yet I would as lief spend my life as an omnibus horse as live theirs.
• Randolph, I would as lief not have a child as not have her mind me.
• I had a grim thought that I would just as lief have had hold of the lioness.
• And therefore, Sir Tristram, as for any death I dread not, for I had as lief die as to live.
• Who would have weened that, thou that hast been to me so lief and dear? and thou art named a noble knight, and would betray me for the richness of the sword.
• It does not appear that he ever made any pretence of love for the Puritan commonwealth, and there were many like him who had as lief be ruled by king as by clergy.
• After all my trouble and labor for you, you would as lief see my head split with an axe, though none of you dare lay hold of the handle.
• I would as lief go to Bible-class every day of the week.
• That old woman would as lief have had what remained of her teeth pulled out as have parted with anything once brought into Hynds House.
• Whether the King be lief or loth To-day one bed shall hold you both.

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