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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.

A heavy weapon of the Australian aborigines with a sharp- pointed end, about nine inches in length, projecting at right angles from the main part.

A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.

The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also leach.] Leech line, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. Totten. -- Leech rope, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic] Chaucer.

A caldron; a copper kettle. [Obs.] "A furnace of a leed." Chaucer.

See Lief. [Obs.] Chaucer.

loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion. Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.

See Leme. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of Leap. leaped.

Empty of contents. "A leer stomach." Gifford.

Tape or braid; an ornament. Halliwell. Leere side, the left side, as that on which a leere or ornament was worn. B. Jonson.

In a leering manner.

Dregs. See 2d Lee.

To lose. [Obs.] They would rather leese their friend than their jest. Lord Burleigh.

A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court- leet; the day on which a court-leet is held. Shak.

One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. -- n.

The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.