Lee
Lee (lē) , intransitive verb
To lie; to speak falsely. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Lee (lēz) , noun
[French lie, perh. from Latin levare to lift up, raise. Compare Lever.]
That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.]
The lees of wine.
A thousand demons lurk within the lee.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
Lee , noun
[Old English lee shelter, Icelandic hlē, akin to Anglo-Saxon hleó, hleów, shelter, protection, Old Saxon hlèo, Dutch lij lee, Swedish la, Danish la.]
1.
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.
We lurked under lee.
Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.
2.
(Nautical) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
Lee , adjective
(Nautical) 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.
Collocations (4)
Lee shore , the shore on the lee side of a vessel.
Lee tide , a tide running in the same direction that the wind blows.
On the lee beam , directly to the leeward; in a line at right angles to the length of the vessel and to the leeward.