1. [n]  the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
2. [n]  American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
3. [n]  American Revolutionary soldier (1756-1818)
4. [n]  American Revolutionary leader who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American colonies (1732-1794)
5. [n]  United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
6. [n]  United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
7. [n]  United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
8. [n]  United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of Black American culture (born in 1957)

Lee
After his surrender at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee lived only another years -- the forgotten chapter of an extraordinary life. These were his finest hours, when he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South. Flood draws on new research wonderful, tragic, and powerful ... story for which we have been waiting over a century (Theodore H. White).

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1. \Lee\ (l[=e]), v. i.,
   To lie; to speak falsely. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
   

2. \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.
         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.
   

3. \Lee\, n. [OE. lee shelter, Icel. hl[=e], akin to AS.
   hle['o], hle['o]w, shelter, protection, OS. hl[`e]o, D. lij
   lee, Sw. l["a], Dan. l[ae].]
   1. A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind
      by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter;
      protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a
      ship.
            We lurked under lee.                  --Morte
                                                  d'Arthure.
            Desiring me to take shelter in his lee. --Tyndall.
   2. (Naut.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on
      shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See {Lee}, a.
   {By the lee}, {To bring by the lee}. See under {By}, and
      {Bring}.
   {Under the lee of}, on that side which is sheltered from the
      wind; as, to be under the lee of a ship.
   

4. \Lee\, a. (Naut.)
   Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against
   which the wind blows; -- opposed to {weather}; as, the lee
   side or lee rail of a vessel.
   {Lee gauge}. See {Gauge}, n. (Naut.)
   {Lee shore}, the shore on the lee side of a vessel.
   {Lee tide}, a tide running in the same direction that the
      wind blows.
   {On the lee beam}, directly to the leeward; in a line at
      right angles to the length of the vessel and to the
      leeward.