The noun cease has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. cease -- ((`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end)
Overview of verb cease
The verb cease has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (25) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off -- (put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother")
2. (6) end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo")