lee
Speech parts
1. lee - Noun
2. lee - Adjective
3. lee - Verb
4. lee - Adjective Satellite
5. Lee - Proper noun
Meaning
To lie; to speak falsely.
That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
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.
That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See 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.
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But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
He that lippens to bodden ploughs, his hand lies lee.
I'll no tell a lee for scant o' news.