to lie; to speak falsely.-that which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.-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.-that part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. see lee, a.-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.