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Lee (lē), v. i., To lie; to speak falsely. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Lee, n.; pl. Lees (lēz). [F. lie, perh. fr. L. levare to lift up, raise. Cf. 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.” Holland.
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A thousand demons lurk within the lee. Young.
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The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of. Shak.
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Lee, n. [OE. lee shelter, Icel. hlē, akin to AS. hleó, hleów, shelter, protection, OS. hlèo, D. lij lee, Sw. lä, Dan. læ.]
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”.
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We lurked under lee. Morte d'Arthure.
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Desiring me to take shelter in his lee. Tyndall.
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2. (Naut.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
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By the lee, To bring by the lee. See under By, and Bring. -- Under the lee of, on that side which is sheltered from the wind; as, “to be under the lee of a ship”.
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Lee, a. (Naut.) 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”.
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Lee gauge. See Gauge, n. (Naut.) -- 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.
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