Lee

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  • noun. The side away from the direction from which the wind blows.
  • noun. An area sheltered from the wind.
  • noun. Cover; shelter.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the side sheltered from the wind.
  • adjective. Located in or facing the path of an oncoming glacier. Used of a geologic formation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An obsolete form of lea.
  • noun. The grosser part of any liquor which has settled on the bottom of a vessel; dregs; sediment: as, the lees of wine: usually in the plural, lees, which is sometimes treated as a singular.
  • noun. Shelter.
  • noun. The quarter toward which the wind blows, as opposed to that from which it proceeds; also, the shelter afforded by an object interposed which keeps off the wind: almost exclusively a nautical term.
  • Nautical, of or pertaining to the part or side toward which the wind blows, or which is sheltered from the wind: opposed to weather: as, the lee side of a vessel.
  • Lonely.
  • noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of lye.
  • noun. A dialectal (Scotch) form of lie.
  • noun. In geology, the side of a ledge of rocks which is turned away from the approach of an eroding agent, such as a glacier. The other side is the stoss or shock side.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To lie; to speak falsely.
  • noun. That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather.
  • adjective. See Gauge, n.
  • adjective. the shore on the lee side of a vessel.
  • adjective. a tide running in the same direction that the wind blows.
  • adjective. directly to the leeward; in a line at right angles to the length of the vessel and to the leeward.
  • noun. A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
  • noun. That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
  • noun. See under By, and Bring.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. on that side which is sheltered from the wind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  • noun. The side of the ship away from the wind.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
  • noun. United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
  • noun. soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
  • noun. American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
  • adjective. towards the side away from the wind
  • noun. leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
  • noun. United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
  • noun. the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
  • noun. United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
  • Word Usage
    "Spike lee is a racist idiot who makes boring terrible movies with the exception of he got game. judd apatow should be upset that spike lees name was even mentioned in the same breath as his. spike lee is about as good of a director as micheal bay and he looks like a slightly less retarded version of beetlejuice on the howard stern show"
    Antonyms
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    weather  
    cross-reference
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    alee  leeward  leeway  
    Hypernym
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    Ab  Ac  Ag  Agee  Aimee  
    Same Context
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    cover  defense  dregs  eye  flanking