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nternal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. [R.] Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran. Thomson. ferment oils, volatile oils produced by the fermentation of plants, and not originally contained in them. These were the quintessences of the alchenists. Ure.

One who flees. Ld. Berners.

One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive. Shak.

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, etc.

Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.

Lees; dregs; grounds. [Eng.] "Grouts of tea." Dickens.

m, as, of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] "The lees of wine." Holland. A thousand demons lurk within the lee. Young. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Shak.

ethereal substance (not to be confused with the bouquet, or aroma, of wine) found in wine lees, and consisting of a complex mixture of the ethereal salts of several of the higher acids of the acetic acid series. It has an ethereal odor, and it used in flavoring artificial wines and liquors. Called also oil of wine. See…

To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner. Bacon. Rack vintage, wine cleansed and drawn from the lees. Cowell.

One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.

Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.

ad, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

juice, or from the scumming of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink composed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or l…

One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive. Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled Shak.

The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. [Obs.] Fuller's earth left a thick settlement. Mortimer.

That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.