lee

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Nautical The side away from the direction from which the wind blows.
• noun An area sheltered from the wind.
• noun Cover; shelter.
• adjective Nautical 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.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.
• 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Lees occurs also as a form of the singular. That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
• adjective (Naut.) Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather.
• adjective (Naut.) 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.
• intransitive verb obsolete To lie; to speak falsely.
• noun A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
• noun (Naut.) 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 on that side which is sheltered from the wind.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun sailing A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
• noun sailing The side of the ship away from the wind.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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