lee

• POS: Noun
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

lee, v. i. 

 To lie; to speak falsely.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

lee, n. [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.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
"A thousand demons lurk within the lee."  [1913 Webster]
"The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of."  [1913 Webster]

lee, n. [OE. lee shelter, Icel. hl, akin to AS. hleó, hleów, shelter, protection, OS. hlèo, D. lij lee, Sw. lä, Dan. læ.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "We lurked under lee."  [1913 Webster]

  "Desiring me to take shelter in his lee."  [1913 Webster]
•  That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.  [1913 Webster]

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.

lee, a. 

 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.  [1913 Webster]

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.