adv. [ Pref. a- + lee. ] (Naut.) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hard alee, or
Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. appelé, p. p. of appeler, fr. L. appellare. ] (Law) (a) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant. (b) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. [ Pref. a- + sleep. ] 1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1 Thess. iv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Numbed, and, usually, tingling. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. baillé, p. p. of bailler. See Bail to deliver. ] (Law) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. baleine whale and whalebone, L. balaena a whale; cf. Gr. fa`laina. ] (Zool. & Com.) Plates or blades of “whalebone, ” from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bandoulière (cf. It. bandoliera, Sp. bandolera), fr. F. bande band, Sp. & It. banda. See Band, n. ] 1. A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make bloody; to stain with blood. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } prop. n. The language spoken in Bengal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wide sleeve, once worn by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bleó, bleóh. ] Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For him which is so bright of blee. Lament. of Mary Magd. [ 1913 Webster ]

That boy has a strong blee of his father. Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bled p. pr. & vb. n. Bleeding. ] [ OE. bleden, AS. bl&unr_;dan, fr. bl&unr_;d blood; akin to Sw. blöda, Dan. blöde, D. bloeden, G. bluten. See Blood. ] 1. To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence. “Cæsar must bleed.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. [ 1913 Webster ]

For me the balm shall bleed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To make the heart bleed, to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. [ 1913 Webster ]

A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber. H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) (a) One who, or that which, draws blood. (b) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a short high-pitched tone produced as a signal or warning.
Syn. -- beep. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. (Broadcasting) to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting.
Syn. -- bleep out. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. damned. Used as a euphemistic emphatic adjective to express displeasure, in place of damned, goddammed or stronger (more offensive) words. [ PJC ]

v. t. (Broadcasting) same as bleep, v. t..
Syn. -- bleep. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. (Falconry) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies,
Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Chanteclair, name of the cock in the Roman du Renart (Reynard the Fox); chanter to chant + clair clear. See Chant, and Clear. ] A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The redshank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A claw. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Act of cleeking; a clutch. [ Scot. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ pret. Claught pret. & p. p. Cleeked p. pr. & vb. n. Cleeking. ] [ ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch. ] [ Scot & Dial. Eng. ] 1. To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. Scott. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From cock + leek. ] A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes; -- called also cocky-leeky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cockaleekie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. cailin. ] A girl; a maiden. [ Anglo-Irish ]

Of all the colleens in the land
Sweet Mollie is the daisy. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. coulée, fr. couler to run or flow. ] A stream; (Geol.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 2d cow + leech a physician. ] One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Healing the distemper of cows. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } an anniversary celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the event commemorated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Pretended sleep. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. eleemosynarius, fr. eleemosyna alms, Gr. &unr_; alms. See Alms. ] 1. Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance. “Eleemosynary cures.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Eleemosynaries One who subsists on charity; a dependent. South.

‖a. [ F., p. p. of engouler to swallow up; pref. en- (L. in) + gueule mouth. ] (Her.) Same as Engouled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who is enrolled, especially a learner who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ LL. expletia, OF. espleit. Cf. Exploit. ] (Old Eng. Law) The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fled p. pr. & vb. n. Fleeing. ] [ OE. fleon, fleen, AS. fleón (imperf. fleáh); akin to D. vlieden, OHG. & OS. fliohan, G. fliehen, Icel. fl&ymacr_;ja (imperf. fl&ymacr_;ði), Dan. flye, Sw. fly (imperf. flydde), Goth. þliuhan. √84. Cf. Flight. ] To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flee fornication. 1 Cor. vi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

So fled his enemies my warlike father. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When great speed is to be indicated, we commonly use fly, not flee; as, fly hence to France with the utmost speed. “Whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?” Shak. See Fly, v. i., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. flees, AS. fleós; akin to D. flies, vlies. ] 1. The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who shore me
Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. --
Golden fleece. See under Golden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fleeced p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing. ] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To spread over as with wool. [ R. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a fleece. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece. “Fleecy flocks.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Obs. pl. of Flea. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]