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(1):

(n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; - used now only in the plural.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(v. i.) To lie; to speak falsely.

(5):

(n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.