lee

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Nautical The side away from the direction from which the wind blows.
2. n. An area sheltered from the wind: in the lee of the boulder.
3. n. Cover; shelter.
4. adj. Nautical Of or relating to the side sheltered from the wind: the lee gunwale.
5. adj. Located in or facing the path of an oncoming glacier. Used of a geologic formation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Shelter.
2. n. 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.
3. 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.
4. Lonely.
5. n. An obsolete form of lea.
6. n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of lie.
7. n. An obsolete or dialectal form of lye.
8. n. 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.
9. n. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. sailing A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. n. sailing The side of the ship away from the wind.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To lie; to speak falsely.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
4. n. (Naut.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.
5. adj. (Naut.) Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
2. n. United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
3. n. soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
4. n. American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
5. adj. towards the side away from the wind
6. n. leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
7. n. United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
8. n. the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
9. n. United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)