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Lee
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| lee de forest
| lee harvey oswald
| lee krasner
| lee side
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Lee has 8 senses
- lee(n = noun.person) shelton jackson lee, spike lee - United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957); Array is a kind of film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker
- lee(n = noun.person) gypsy rose lee, rose louise hovick - United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970); Array is a kind of ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser
- lee(n = noun.person) bruce lee, lee yuen kam - United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973); Array is a kind of actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian
- lee(n = noun.person) tsung dao lee - United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926); Array is a kind of nuclear physicist
- lee(n = noun.person) richard henry lee - leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794); Array is a kind of american revolutionary leader
- lee(n = noun.person) henry lee, lighthorse harry lee - soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818); Array is a kind of soldier
- lee(n = noun.person) robert e. lee, robert edward lee - American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870); Array is a kind of full general, general
- lee(n = noun.location) lee side, leeward - the side of something that is sheltered from the wind; Array is a kind of face, side
Adjective Lee has 1 sense
- lee(s = adj.all) downwind - towards the side away from the wind; Array
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."
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"The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of." [1913 Webster]
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]
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]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Lee, n.
1 shelter given by a neighbouring object (under the lee of).
2 (in full lee side) the sheltered side, the side away from the wind (opp. weather side).
1 shelter given by a neighbouring object (under the lee of).
2 (in full lee side) the sheltered side, the side away from the wind (opp. weather side).
Idiom
lee-board a plank frame fixed to the side of a flat-bottomed vessel and let down into the water to diminish leeway. lee shore the shore to leeward of a ship.
Etymology
OE hleo f. Gmc
THESAURUS
Lee
cover, defense, eye, flanking, glancing, guard, lateral, lee sheet, lee shore, lee side, lee tack, leeward, next-beside, preservation, protection, protective custody, refuge, safekeeping, safety, shade, shadow, shelter, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skirting, watchful eye, weather, windwardROGET THESAURUS
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Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
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