Definitions for lees

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lees lees

Spelling: [leez]

IPA: /liz/

Lees is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in lees (eels).

Definitions for lees

noun

1. plural of lee2 .
2. protective shelter:
3. the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind:
4. Chiefly Nautical. the quarter or region toward which the wind blows.
5. Usually, lees. the insoluble matter that settles from a liquid, especially from wine; sediment; dregs.
6. Ann, 1736–84, British mystic: founder of Shaker sect in U.S.
7. Charles, 1731–82, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
8. Doris Emrick [em-rik] /ˈɛm rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1905–1986, U.S. painter.
9. Fitzhugh [fits-hyoo or, often, -yoo,, fits-hyoo or, often, -yoo] /ˈfɪtsˌhyu or, often, -ˌyu,, fɪtsˈhyu or, often, -ˈyu/ (Show IPA), 1835–1905, U.S. general and statesman (grandson of Henry Lee; nephew of Robert E. Lee).
10. Francis Lightfoot [lahyt-foo t] /ˈlaɪtˌfʊt/ (Show IPA), 1734–97, American Revolutionary statesman (brother of Richard H. Lee).
11. Gypsy Rose (Rose Louise Hovick) 1914–70, U.S. entertainer.
12. Harper, born 1926, U.S. novelist.
13. Henry ("Light-Horse Harry") 1756–1818, American Revolutionary general (father of Robert E. Lee).
14. Kuan Yew [kwahn yoo] /kwɑn yu/ (Show IPA), 1923–2015, Singapore political leader: prime minister 1959–90.
15. Manfred Bennington [man-frid] /ˈmæn frɪd/ (Show IPA), ("Ellery Queen") 1905–71, U.S. mystery writer, in collaboration with Frederic Dannay.
16. Richard Henry, 1732–94, American Revolutionary statesman (brother of Francis L. Lee).
17. Robert E(dward) 1807–70, U.S. soldier and educator: Confederate general in the American Civil War (son of Henry Lee).
18. Sir Sidney, 1859–1926, English biographer and critic.
19. Spike (Shelton Jackson Lee) born 1957, U.S. film director, screenwriter, and actor.
20. Tsung-Dao [dzoo ng-dou] /ˈdzʊŋˈdaʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1926, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1957.
21. a town in W Massachusetts: resort.
22. a male or female given name.

Idioms

1. by the lee, Nautical. accidentally against what should be the lee side of a sail:
2. under the lee, Nautical. to leeward.

adjective

1. pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the lee.

Origin of lees

before 900; Middle English; Old English hlēo(w) shelter, cognate with Old Frisian hli, hly, Old Saxon hleo, Old Norse hlé

Examples for lees

So, when she had their report, was the Queen, but before she could take action,  she received a letter from the schoolboy lees.

She sent at once for lees and a séance was held in the Palace.

The lees of twenty ducats shabby in his fist told her how near the peril was.

To her service he had dedicated the lees of his life and the ripeness of his knowledge.

lees refused the offer, apparently on the advice of his spirit guides, but did not leave the Queen without solace.

The voice phenomenon produced by lees was instantly recognisable as that of the late Consort.

The lees were the 1st Black Family to move into the predominantly Italian-American Brooklyn Neighborhood of Cobble Hill.

She had tasted the lees of this on her arrival; in the darkness, after failure, they intoxicated her.

What work would they make with your Shakespears, Otways, and lees?

If the wine boil over, put to it the lees of red wine, and that will cure it.