Lee: Definition and part of speech

Lee

  1. v. i. To lie; to speak falsely.
  2. n. That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; — used now only in the plural.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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