Crossword clues for lees
lees
- Sediment in wine
- Sara and Stan
- Peggy and Bruce
- Most worthless part
- Marvin et al
- Marvin and Majors
- Majors and Marvin, e.g
- Majors and Marvin
- Majors and Iacocca
- Light Horse Harry and Robert E
- Last drops
- Harper and Stan
- Fermentation residue
- Certain jeans
- Bruce and Stan
- Bruce and Jason
- Brenda and Peggy
- Bottom-of-the-barrel sediment
- Wranglers' rivals
- Winery sediment
- Winery dregs
- Winemaker's waste
- Winemaker's dregs
- Wine-bottle dregs
- Wine waste
- Wine vat sediment
- Wine leftovers
- Wine bottle debris
- Wine barrel dregs
- What's found at the bottom of the barrel
- Vintage remainder
- Vat sediment
- Van Cleef et al
- Unwanted remains
- Two Va. Signers
- Trevino and Marvin
- Tommy and Robert E
- They're removed in a process called "racking"
- Spike and Pinky
- Spike and Marvin
- Spike and Harper
- Some jeans, familiarly
- Soave sediment
- Sediment of liquids
- Sediment in alcohol
- Sediment from wine or beer production
- Sauternes sediment
- Robert E. et al
- Robert E. and others
- Robert E. __ birthday (Southern holiday)
- Radziwill, etc
- Radziwill et al
- R. E. and Peggy
- Protecting shelter: pl
- Powerful 19th century Virginia family
- Port refuse
- Peggy and Robert E
- Peggy and Brenda
- Pace and Strasberg
- Notable Virginians
- Members of F. F. V
- Levis rival
- Journalist Paris
- Iacocca and Harper
- Heel taps
- Harry and Robert E
- Harper and Stagger
- Harper and Spike
- Gypsy Rose and Dixie
- Grant and Grant's foe
- Golfers Westwood and Trevino
- Golfer Elder et al
- Generals, father and son
- Fermentation-vessel sediments
- Famous Virginians
- Famous VA family
- Famous family of Virginia
- Dregs of drink
- Dregs from wine fermentation
- Denim purchase
- Cliff, Carlos and Derrek of baseball
- Bruce, Brenda, and Spike
- Bruce and Buddy
- Brothers who signed the Declaration
- Brenda, Tommy and Bruce
- Brandon, Bruce and Brenda
- Bottom-of-the-barrel residue
- Bottom-of-the-barrel find
- Bottom of the barrel find
- Bits at the bottom of a wine bottle
- Barrel-bottom residue
- Barrel sediment
- Barrel dregs
- Ann, Stan and Ang
- Ang and Spike
- Alternatives to Wranglers
- Alternative to Wranglers
- Alcoholic sediments
- Alcoholic sediment
- 19th-century military family
- "1776" family
- ___ Summit (city in Missouri)
- ___ birthday, Jan. 19, legal holiday in Dixie
- Sedimentary stuff
- Bottom of the barrel, perhaps
- Refuse at a bar
- Ultra Cord jeans
- Wine sediments
- Undrunk portion
- Noted Virginia family
- Part that doesn't dissolve
- Settlings
- Some popular jeans
- Popular jeans
- What settles
- Some jeans, informally
- Wine dregs
- Chablis sediment
- Directors Ang and Spike
- Wine vat waste
- Virginia clan
- Vat waste
- Pinky and Spike
- Remains after the aging process
- Venerable Virginia family
- Historic Virginia family
- Wranglers alternatives
- Dregs of wine
- Directors Spike and Ang
- Famous Virginia family
- Performers Peggy and Pinky
- "The jeans that built America"
- Cask dregs
- Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff
- Levi's alternatives
- Onetime Virginia V.I.P.'s
- Vintner's dregs
- Sake brewery byproduct
- Wine bottle residue
- The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
- F.F.V. group
- Grant and Marvin
- Sordor
- Shelters
- Peggy and Pinky
- Wineglass left-overs
- Dross
- Heeltaps
- Two Va. signers: 7/4/76
- Peggy and Spike
- " ___ Lieutenants," Freeman book
- R. E. and Ruta
- Residue type
- "I will drink/Life to the ___": Tennyson
- Grant and Cobb
- Majors and Trevino
- Settled matter
- D. S. Freeman's "___ Lieutenants"
- Prominent Virginia family
- Barrel-bottom stuff
- Majors and Grant
- MacPhail and Stange of baseball
- Wine leavings
- Sediment of 9 Across
- F.F.V. folks
- "___ Lieutenants," D. S. Freeman book
- Robert and Pinky
- Cobb and Marvin
- Sediment, dregs
- Sediment from wine and beer production
- Losing general at 14's precipitate
- Python discovered in sediment
- Jeans brand
- Jeans choice
- Wine cask sediment
- Notable Virginia family
- Cask sediment
- Wine bottle sediment
- Cousins of Wranglers
- Vintner's sediment
- Van Cleef and Grant, for two
- Spike and Ang
- Bottom-of-barrel contents
- Alternatives to Levis
- Alternative to Levi's
- Winemaker's sediment
- Wine barrel sediment
- Spike and Bruce
- Pinky and Peggy
- Fermentation sediments
- Casual brand
- Bruce and Spike
- Brenda and Bruce
- Brand of jeans
- Barrel-bottom contents
- Alternatives to Levi's
- Winemaking waste
- Wine settlings
- Virginia family
- Trevino and Strasberg
- Stuff at the bottom of the barrel
- Stuff at the bottom of a wine barrel
- Spike and Tommy
- Spike and Light-horse Harry
- Some skinny jeans
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]s), n.
A leash. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]z), n. pl. Dregs. See 2d Lee.
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.
A thousand demons lurk within the lee.
--Young.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French lies, plural of lie "sediment," probably from Celtic (compare Old Irish lige "a bed, a lying"), from PIE root *legh- "to lie" (see lie (v.2)).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context plural only English) The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit. Etymology 2
n. (context sailing English) (plural of lee English)Category:English plurals
WordNet
n. the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
Wikipedia
The term Lees can refer to:
- Lees (fermentation) dead yeast and debris left after fermentation of wine, beer, etc.
- Lees (surname)
- Lees, Derbyshire, a village in England
- Lees, Greater Manchester, village near Oldham in North West England
- JW Lees, a Brewery in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England
- Lees Station, Tennessee, a community in the U.S. state of Tennessee
- Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Lees refers to deposits of dead yeast or residual yeast and other particles that precipitate, or are carried by the action of " fining", to the bottom of a vat of wine after fermentation and aging. The yeast deposits in beer brewing are known as trub. However, yeast deposits from secondary fermentation of both wine and beer are referred to as lees. This material is the source for most commercial tartaric acid, which is used in cooking and in organic chemistry.
Normally the wine is transferred to another container ( racking), leaving this sediment behind. Some wines (notably Chardonnay, Champagne and Muscadet) are sometimes aged for a time on the lees (a process known as sur lie), leading to a distinctive yeasty aroma and taste. The lees may be stirred (bâtonage in French) in order to promote uptake of the lees' flavour.
The lees are an important component in the making of Ripasso where the leftover lees from Amarone are used to impart more flavour and colour to partially aged Valpolicella.
Lees is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Lees (environmentalist) (1949–1994), British environmentalist
- Andrew Lees (neurologist) (born 1947), English neurologist
- Benjamin Lees (1924–2010), American classical music composer
- Brian Lees (born 1923), Massachusetts politician
- Charles Lees (1837–1892), British colonial administrator and governor
- Edwin Lees (1800–1887), British botanist and antiquarian
- Gabriel Lees (born 1990), French-British ski mountaineer
- Geoffrey Lees (born 1920), English cricketer
- George Harmon Lees (fl. 1911–1912), mayor of Hamilton, Ontario
- Harcourt Lees (1776–1852), Irish political pamphleteer
- Harrington Clare Lees (1870–1929), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne
- James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English writer and expert on country houses
- Jim Lees (1919–2004), Commissioner of the New South Wales Police
- Joanne Lees (born 1973), girlfriend of Peter Falconio (murder victim)
- Meg Lees (born 1948), member of the Australian Senate
- Merv Lees, Australian rugby league footballer
- Nathaniel Lees (born ?), New Zealand born actor and theatre director
- Paris Lees, British journalist and activist
- Robert Lees (1912–2004), American television and film screenwriter
- Robert Lees (linguist) (1922–1996), American linguist
- Robert James Lees (1849–1931) British spiritualist and medium
- Simon Lees (born 1970), Welsh guitarist
- Tom Lees (born 1990), English footballer
- Walter Lees (1875–1924), English Test cricketer
- Walter Edwin Lees (1887–1957), American aviator
- Warren Lees (born 1952), New Zealand Test cricketer
Usage examples of "lees".
Frequent mention is made of sour galls, aleppo galls, green and blue vitriol, the lees of wine, black amber, sugar, fish-glue and a host of unimportant materials as being employed in the admixture of black inks.
Beany and Fatty and Nibby and Lees Moses and Whacker went home by the libary building, when the girls came out they dident pay enny attension to us becaus the high school fellers was there.
The Council of Seven was gathered in the audience hall of the Chancery, the round council table set just outside the curtained niche where Lees Obol lay.
And as for Lees Obol, his voice came to them plaintively from the curtained niche behind them.
Lees Obol, feeling himself fading away, chooses to recommend to the general that he vote for Ezasper Jorn as the next Protector of Man.
I have every reason to believe Lees Obol will live for two or three years yet.
Jondrigar, knowing that unless Lees Obol himself contradicted what Tharius had just said, Pamra Don was as good as in his hands.
Lees Obol must be better served, and he could be better served only if man were better served.
If one was to get any sense out of Lees Obol, the very early morning was the only possible time, though in recent months even that was unlikely.
And then Lees Obol, with Shavian Bossit to take his place as Protector of Manthree votes in the council guaranteed: Bormas, Glamdrul, and his ownand the assembly already primed to vote for him.
She abjured Gendra Mitiar with great passion to free these men as Lees Obol would require of her.
When they met, the body of Lees Obol had already been removed and there was no smell at all.
And when that is done, I will return to take up this great office, which Lees Obol intended from my birth.
She had not spoken to Lees Obol yet, and when she did, perhaps he would believe her all at once as the general had done.
Lees Obol dead, and none caring that he lay all alone on the catafalque in the ceremonial square.