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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--lee This week's theme: short words. lee (lee) noun 1. Shelter. 2. The side (of a ship, for example) that's sheltered or away from the direction from which the wind blows. adjective Of or pertaining to the side that's away from the wind. [From Middle English, from Old English hleo (shelter).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Sunlight spread in waves across eerily calm fields in the lee of the woods ..." Paul Evans; Wednesday Radio; The Guardian (London, UK); Oct 30, 2002. X-Bonus Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)

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