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LEE

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 364 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LEE . (I) (In O. Eng. hleo; cf. the pronunciation Cew-ward of " leeward "; the word appears in several
Teutonic
 
languages
 ; cf. Dutch lij, Dan. lac), properly a shelter or
protection
 , chiefly used as a nautical
term
  for that
side
  of a
ship
 ,
land
 , &c., which is farthest from the
wind
 , hence a " lee shore,"
land
  under the lee of a
ship
 , i.e. one on which the
wind
  blows directly and which is unsheltered. A ship is said to make " leeway " when she drifts laterally away from her course. (2) A word now always used in the plural " lees," meaning dregs, sediment, particularly of wine. It comes through the O. Fr. lie from a Gaulish Lat. lia, and is probably of Celtic origin.


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