(property law) The owner of property that is leased; the landlord to a lease.

(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce. / (intransitive) To become less.

(nonstandard, dialect) unless.

(obsolete) To lose. / (obsolete) To destroy. / (obsolete) To forsake or abandon.

The crime of violating majesty, an offense against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.

A lesson taught (especially to young children) using a familiar or unusual object as a focus. / An example from real life that explains a principle or teaches a lesson.

(law) A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.

Approximately. / Almost.

(US, sometimes proscribed) To not care at all; to have no concern or interest; to be apathetic.

(Christianity) A reading from one of the New Testament epistles (written by St. Paul and others); one of the usual four readings from the Bible found in many (Sunday) Christian church services, in various denominations.