Bible Dictionaries
Lief

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(adv.) Willing; disposed.

(2):

(n.) Dear; beloved.

(3):

(n.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable.

(4):

(n.) Same as Lif.

(5):

(n.) A dear one; a sweetheart.

(6):

(adv.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lief'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lief.html. 1828.