"lee" Definition

Definitions for the word "lee" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
To lie; to speak falsely.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a.
Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
1 shelter given by a close object (under the lee of). 2 (in full lee side) side away from the wind. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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