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See also: Appendix:Variations of "lees"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liːz/
Audio (Southern England): noicon (file) - Rhymes: -iːz
Etymology 1
From Old French lies, from Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligyā, *legyā (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legyā (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Noun
lees pl (plural only)
- The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:
- Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
- Kipper drained his glass to the lees and seemed to become calmer.
Synonyms
- (sediment): dregs
Derived terms
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Translations
the sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit
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Etymology 2
Noun
lees
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch lezen, from Middle Dutch lēsen (“to collect, gather, read”), from Old Dutch lesan (“to gather, read”), from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).
Pronunciation
Verb
lees (present lees, present participle lesende, past participle gelees)
- to read
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
lees
- inflection of lezen:
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Galician
Verb
lees
Luxembourgish
Verb
lees
North Frisian
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.
Verb
lees
- (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) to read
Conjugation
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
From Old Frisian *hletha (attested in the past participle hleden), from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.
Verb
lees
- (Föhr-Amrum) to load
Conjugation
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Verb
lees
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