Lees

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lee \Lee\, n.; pl. {Lees} (l[=e]z). [F. lie, perh. fr. L. levare
     to lift up, raise. Cf. {Lever}.]
     That which settles at the bottom, 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.


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           A thousand demons lurk within the lee.   --Young.
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           The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
           Is left this vault to brag of.           --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]z), n. pl.
     Dregs. See 2d {Lee}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]s), n.
     A leash. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lees
       n : the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "lees":
     alluvion, alluvium, ash, bones, chaff, cinder, clinker, culm,
     deadwood, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs,
     dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, garbage, gash, grounds,
     hogwash, husks, leavings, loess, moraine, offal, offscourings,
     offscum, orts, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation,
     rags, raspings, refuse, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps,
     scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings, silt, sinter, slack,
     slag, slop, slops, smut, soot, stubble, sublimate, sweepings,
     swill, tares, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Lees
     (Heb. shemarim), from a word meaning to keep or preserve. It was
     applied to "lees" from the custom of allowing wine to stand on
     the lees that it might thereby be better preserved (Isa. 25:6).
     "Men settled on their lees" (Zeph. 1:12) are men "hardened or
     crusted." The image is derived from the crust formed at the
     bottom of wines long left undisturbed (Jer. 48:11). The effect
     of wealthy undisturbed ease on the ungodly is hardening. They
     become stupidly secure (comp. Ps. 55:19; Amos 6:1). To drink the
     lees (Ps. 75:8) denotes severe suffering.