Definition of "lieve" []

• Same as lief. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "'D-- d ef I doan't b'lieve'twud make her love th' little nig like I do, 'replied the corn-cracker, taking him up on his knee as tenderly as he would have taken up his own child."
• "But when it comes to spinnin 'yarns, nobody don't have to b'lieve' em."
• ""D---- d ef I doant b'lieve 'twud make her love th' little nig like I do;" replied the corn-cracker, taking him up on his knee as tenderly as he would have taken up his own child."