Lees

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  • noun plural. Sediment settling during fermentation, especially in wine; dregs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. plural See lee.
  • noun. A Middle English form of leash.
  • noun. See lease.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun plural. Dregs. See 2d lee.
  • noun. A leash.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
  • noun. Plural form of lee.
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  • noun. the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
  • Word Usage
    "Before dinner, we heard a powerful lecture on the environment by r. martin lees, and then not long after we ate, it was announced there was a singer in the room."
    Form
    Lee  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deposit  sediment  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abdulaziz  Annamese  Aziz  Balinese  Beas  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alluvion  alluvium  ash  bones  chaff  
    variant
    lee