What is the name meaning of LEES. Phrases containing LEES
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LEES
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English (chiefly Northamptonshire)
English (chiefly Northamptonshire) : metronymic from Leece 1.
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English
English : metronymic from Lees 3.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : unexplained; possibly a variant of Leeson.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Prison, bush, lees, thorn.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields’, ‘arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’ (Old English lǣs).English : habitational name from Leece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from Old English lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural of lēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably named with a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall’, ‘court’, ‘the principal house in a district’.English : variant spelling of Leece 1.Scottish : reduced form of Gillies.Scottish and Irish : reduced and altered form of McLeish.Dutch : variant of Leys.
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Scottish and Irish
Scottish and Irish : possibly a reduced and altered form of McLeish.English : see Lees 2.Americanized form of German Lasch.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Prison, bush, lees, thorn.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval female personal name, Lece, a short form of Lettice (Latin Laetitia, meaning ‘happiness’, ‘gaiety’).English : variant of Lees.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish and Irish
Scottish and Irish : possibly a reduced and altered form of McLeish.English : see Lees 2.
Girl/Female
American, British, Christian, English, Hebrew
God's Promise; God is My Oath; Pledged to God
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Lisa, LEESA means "God is my oath."
Girl/Female
Hindu
Noble sort
Biblical
Shamer, prison; bush; lees; thorn
Girl/Female
Tamil
Noble sort
Girl/Female
German
Noble; Kind
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v. t.
To hurt.
n.
Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.
n.
The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast.
v. i.
To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
n.
Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
a.
capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
a.
Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
n.
Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.
n.
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
n.
That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
v. t.
To lose.
n.
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
n. pl.
Dregs. See 2d Lee.
n.
That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.
n.
The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
v. t.
To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
n.
A leash.
n.
Lees; dregs; grounds.
n.
A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
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of Lee