robert(n = noun.person) henry m. robert, henry martyn robert - United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923);
is a kind of parliamentarian
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anne robert jacques turgot, arthur robert ashe, charles robert darwin, charles robert redford, donald robert perry marquis, gustav robert kirchhoff, henry m. robert, henry martyn robert, herb robert, herbs robert, leroy robert paige, otto robert frisch, robert a. heinlein, robert abram bartlett, robert adam, robert alexander schumann, robert andrews millikan, robert anson heinlein, robert barany, robert bartlett, robert benchley, robert boyle, robert brown, robert browning, robert bruce mathias, robert bunsen, robert burns, robert burns woodward, robert charles benchley, robert charles venturi, robert clive, robert curl, robert de niro, robert e lee day, robert e lee's birthday, robert e. lee, robert e. peary, robert edward lee, robert edwin peary, robert emmet sherwood, robert f. curl, robert falcon scott, robert floyd curl jr., robert frost, robert fulton, robert graves, robert gray, robert herrick, robert hooke, robert hutchings goddard, robert i, robert james fischer, robert jemison van de graaff, robert joffrey, robert king merton, robert koch, robert lee frost, robert louis balfour stevenson, robert louis stevenson, robert lowell, robert m. yerkes, robert macgregor, robert maynard hutchins, robert mearns yerkes, robert merton, robert mills, robert mitchum, robert morris, robert motherwell, robert nesta marley, robert oppenheimer, robert orr, robert owen, robert peary, robert peel, robert penn warren, robert r. livingston, robert ranke graves, robert redford, robert robinson, robert schumann, robert scott, robert southey, robert the bruce, robert traill spence lowell jr., robert treat paine, robert tyre jones, robert van de graaff, robert venturi, robert walpole, robert wilhelm bunsen, robert william service, robert woodrow wilson, robert woodward, sir robert eric mortimer wheeler, sir robert peel, sir robert robinson, sir robert walpole, thomas robert malthus
1. lee(n = noun.person) shelton jackson lee, spike lee - United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957);
is a kind of film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker
2. lee(n = noun.person) gypsy rose lee, rose louise hovick - United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970);
is a kind of ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser
3. lee(n = noun.person) bruce lee, lee yuen kam - United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973);
is a kind of actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian
4. lee(n = noun.person) tsung dao lee - United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926);
is a kind of nuclear physicist
5. lee(n = noun.person) richard henry lee - leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794);
is a kind of american revolutionary leader
6. lee(n = noun.person) henry lee, lighthorse harry lee - soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818);
is a kind of soldier
7. lee(n = noun.person) robert e. lee, robert edward lee - American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870);
is a kind of full general, general
8. lee(n = noun.location) lee side, leeward - the side of something that is sheltered from the wind;
is a kind of face, side
lee(s = adj.all) downwind - towards the side away from the wind;
To lie; to speak falsely. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. Holland. [1913 Webster]
"A thousand demons lurk within the lee." [1913 Webster]
"The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"We lurked under lee." [1913 Webster]
"Desiring me to take shelter in his lee." [1913 Webster]
2. That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee,
Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to
lee, n.
1 shelter given by a neighbouring object (under the lee of).
2 (in full lee side) the sheltered side, the side away from the wind (opp. weather side).
Idiom:
lee-board a plank frame fixed to the side of a flat-bottomed vessel and let down into the water to diminish leeway. lee shore the shore to leeward of a ship.
Etymology:
OE hleo f. Gmc
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
bruce lee, edgar lee masters, edward lee thorndike, gypsy rose lee, henry lee, jerry lee lewis, lee buck trevino, lee de forest, lee harvey oswald, lee krasner, lee side, lee strasberg, lee tide, lee trevino, lee yuen kam, lighthorse harry lee, richard henry lee, robert e lee day, robert e. lee, robert edward lee, robert lee frost, shelton jackson lee, spike lee, tsung dao lee