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lees 音標拼音: [l'iz] n.
pl. 酒糟,渣滓 酒糟,渣滓 lees n 1: the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage Lee \Lee\, n.; pl. {Lees} (l[=e]z). [F. lie, perh. fr. L. levare to lift up, raise. Cf. {Lever}.] That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] "The lees of wine." --Holland. [1913 Webster] A thousand demons lurk within the lee. --Young. [1913 Webster] The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]z), n. pl. Dregs. See 2d {Lee}. [1913 Webster] Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]s), n. A leash. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 67 Moby Thesaurus words for "lees": alluvion, alluvium, ash, bones, chaff, cinder, clinker, culm, deadwood, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs, dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, garbage, gash, grounds, hogwash, husks, leavings, loess, moraine, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation, rags, raspings, refuse, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings, silt, sinter, slack, slag, slop, slops, smut, soot, stubble, sublimate, sweepings, swill, tares, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds Lees
(Heb. shemarim), from a word meaning to keep or preserve. It was applied to "lees" from the custom of allowing wine to stand on the lees that it might thereby be better preserved (Isa. 25:6). "Men settled on their lees" (Zeph. 1:12) are men "hardened or crusted." The image is derived from the crust formed at the bottom of wines long left undisturbed (Jer. 48:11). The effect of wealthy undisturbed ease on the ungodly is hardening. They become stupidly secure (comp. Ps. 55:19; Amos 6:1). To drink the lees (Ps. 75:8) denotes severe suffering. |
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