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lees
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Lees
(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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Lees
(gcide) | Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]z), n. pl.
Dregs. See 2d Lee.
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Lees
(gcide) | Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]s), n.
A leash. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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lees
(wn) | lees
n 1: the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage |
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flees
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lees
(encz) | lees,usazenina n: Zdeněk Brož |
Eblees
(gcide) | Eblis \Eb"lis\, n. [Ar. iblis.] (Moham. Myth.)
The prince of the evil spirits; Satan. [Written also
Eblees.]
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Esplees
(gcide) | Esplees \Es*plees"\, n. pl. [LL. expletia, OF. espleit. Cf.
Exploit.] (Old Eng. Law)
The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as
the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of
arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. --Cowell.
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Gleesome
(gcide) | Gleesome \Glee"some\, a.
Merry; joyous; gleeful.
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Leese
(gcide) | Leese \Leese\, v. t. [Cf. F. l['e]ser, L. laesus, p. p. of
laedere.]
To hurt. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]Leese \Leese\ (l[=e]z), v. t. [See Lose.]
To lose. [Obs.]
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They would rather leese their friend than their jest.
--Lord
Burleigh.
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lees
(wn) | lees
n 1: the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage |
ESPLEES
(bouvier) | ESPLEES. The products which the land or ground yields; as the hay of the
meadows, the herbage of the pasture, corn or other produce of the arable,
rents and services. Termes de la Ley; see 11 Serg. & R. 2-5; Dane's Ab.
Index, h.t.
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