Name Report For First Name LEE:
LEE
First name LEE's origin is English. LEE means "shelter". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with LEE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of lee.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with LEE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with LEE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming LEE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES LEE AS A WHOLE:
coleen aleeza leela daleel galeel waleed bleecker adorlee aileen ainslee aleece aleen aleena aleezah analee annalee arleen arleena arleene ashlee ashleen ashleena avalee beverlee bonny-lee britlee brylee brynlee callee carleen cathleen catlee charlee charleen charleena colleem colleen coralee dannalee darleen darleena debralee eileen eileene eleena ellee elleen emilee emmalee emylee erleen evaleen eveleen greenlee harleen haylee hollee isleen jackleen jamielee jamilee jenalee jennalee jennilee joleen jolleen julee juleen kaelee kailee kaitleen kalee karleen karolee kathleen kathleena kaylee kayleen keelee kellee kolleea kyilee kylee lauralee leeann leeanne leena leesa leslee lillee loralee lorilee lurleen maelee marilee marylee mayleen mckinlee merrilee myleen myleene nadalee natalee nathalee novalee onilee oralee orlee paislee rosaleen shaylee siddalee weslee aleeyah bradlee jaleel leeland leeroy morlee ogaleesha saleem wamblee wambleesha hurlee khaleel kaleel saleema haleema kleef amberlee hannalee bailee baylee jenny-lee jolee marleen marleena marleene rylee karlee aileene jacqueleenNAMES RHYMING WITH LEE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ee) - Names That Ends with ee:
floree aimee haidee taree ehawee hantaywee magaskawee makawee meoquanee ooljee ptaysanwee takchawee al-fadee falakee masree fraynee aleshanee amitee andee andree audree bethanee brandee bree brittnee caree carree casee cassadee cattee caycee charee chelsee cheree cherree cloee cydnee cyndee dannee debbee dee desaree desiree devinee deziree dorothee dustee edee edmee eevee eloisee estee evanee fyuree harmonee indee jacee jadee jaicee jaimee jamee jaycee jaymee jeanee jenee jennasee jodee josee kacee kadee kandee kasidee kaycee kekiokolanee kelsee kourtnee lenee lyndee lynee lynzee macee maycee mckenzee melanee mystee sundee sydnee tahnee tawnee tesanee torree tracee cherokee hahnee hok'ee jaydee jayvee jeremee jessee kangeeNAMES RHYMING WITH LEE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (le) - Names That Begins with le:
lea lea-que leachlainn leah leal leala lealia leaman leamhnach lean leana leander leandra leandre leandro leane leanian leann leanna leannan leanne lear leary leathan leathlobhair leax leb lebna lecia leda legarre legaya legget leia leianna leicester leigb leigh leigh-ann leighanne leighton leiko leil leila leilah leilana leilani leilanie leilany leiloni leira leisha leith leitha leitis leksi lela leland lele lelia lema leman lemuel lemuela len lena lenae lenard lenci lendall lendell leng lenmana lenn lennard lennell lennie lenno lennon lennox lenny lenora lenore lenuta leo leoc leocadie leod leoda leodegan leodegrance leodegraunce leof leola leoma leon leona leonard leonarda leonardoNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEE:
First Names which starts with 'l' and ends with 'e':
labhaoise lace lacee lacene lache lachie lacie ladde lafayette lailie laine lainie laire lajeune lalage lamandre lance lane lanette lange lanice lanie lannie laoghaire larae laraine laramie larcwide larie larine larisse larke larraine larue lasalle lashae lasse lassie laudegrance laudine lauraine laurelle laurence laurene laurenne laurette laurie lausanne laverne lawe lawrence laycie laylie layne leonce leone leonelle leonie leonore leontyne leopoldine leotie leslie lethe letje leucippe levane levene lexie lexine lezlie liane libuse lidoine liliane lilie lilike lillie liluye lindie lindisfarne lindiwe line linette linne linnette liriene lirienne lisabette lise liselle lisette lisle lissette livingstone lizette locke locrine loe lonnieEnglish Words Rhyming LEE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES LEE AS A WHOLE:
appellee | noun (n.) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant. |
noun (n.) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. |
bailee | noun (n.) 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. |
baleen | noun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. |
bandoleer | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandolier |
bengalee | noun (n.) Alt. of Bengali |
blee | noun (n.) Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form. |
bleeding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleed |
noun (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. | |
adjective (a.) Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion. |
bleeder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, draws blood. |
noun (n.) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding. |
canceleer | noun (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. |
chanticleer | noun (n.) A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing. |
clee | noun (n.) A claw. |
noun (n.) The redshank. |
cockaleekie | noun (n.) A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes. |
cockieleekie | noun (n.) Same as Cockaleekie. |
coulee | noun (n.) A stream |
noun (n.) 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 ca–on, which has precipitous sides. |
cowleech | noun (n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor. |
cowleeching | noun (n.) Healing the distemper of cows. |
cleek | noun (n.) 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. |
noun (n.) Act of cleeking; a clutch. | |
verb (v. t.) To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck. | |
verb (v. t.) To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook. | |
verb (v. t.) To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. |
cleeking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleek |
colleen | noun (n.) A girl; a maiden. |
dogsleep | noun (n.) Pretended sleep. |
noun (n.) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. |
eleemosynary | noun (n.) One who subsists on charity; a dependent. |
adjective (a.) Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation. | |
adjective (a.) Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance. | |
adjective (a.) Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor. |
engoulee | adjective (a.) Same as Engouled. |
esplees | noun (n. pl.) 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. |
fleeing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flee |
fleece | noun (n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. |
noun (n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. | |
noun (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. | |
verb (v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. | |
verb (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. | |
verb (v. t.) To spread over as with wool. |
fleecing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleece |
fleeced | adjective (a.) Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. |
adjective (a.) Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Fleece |
fleeceless | adjective (a.) Without a fleece. |
fleecer | noun (n.) One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. |
fleecy | adjective (a.) Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece. |
fleen | noun (n. pl.) Obs. pl. of Flea. |
fleer | noun (n.) One who flees. |
verb (v. t.) To mock; to flout at. | |
() To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. | |
() To grin with an air of civility; to leer. |
fleering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleer |
fleerer | noun (n.) One who fleers. |
fleeting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleet |
adjective (a.) Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. |
fleet | noun (n. & a.) To sail; to float. |
noun (n. & a.) To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. | |
noun (n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser. | |
verb (v. t.) To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf. | |
verb (v. t.) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain. | |
verb (v. i.) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble. | |
verb (v. i.) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil. | |
verb (v. i.) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London. | |
verb (v. i.) A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up). | |
verb (v. i.) To take the cream from; to skim. | |
verb (v. i.) To move or change in position; -- said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft. | |
verb (v. t.) To move or change in position; used only in special phrases; as, of fleet aft the crew. |
fleeten | noun (n.) Fleeted or skimmed milk. |
fleetings | noun (n. pl.) A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. |
fleetness | noun (n.) Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time. |
foresleeve | noun (n.) The sleeve below the elbow. |
fusileer | noun (n.) Alt. of Fusilier |
galilee | noun (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals. |
glee | noun (n.) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. |
noun (n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. | |
noun (n.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome. |
gleeful | adjective (a.) Merry; gay; joyous. |
gleek | noun (n.) A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. |
noun (n.) An enticing look or glance. | |
noun (n.) A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. | |
noun (n.) Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. | |
verb (v. i.) To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. |
gleeman | noun (n.) A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician. |
gleesome | adjective (a.) Merry; joyous; gleeful. |
gleet | noun (n.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. |
verb (v. i.) To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. | |
verb (v. i.) To flow slowly, as water. |
gleety | adjective (a.) Ichorous; thin; limpid. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ee) - English Words That Ends with ee:
abandonee | noun (n.) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. |
absentee | noun (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. |
addressee | noun (n.) One to whom anything is addressed. |
advowee | noun (n.) One who has an advowson. |
affrontee | noun (n.) One who receives an affront. |
alienee | noun (n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. |
allottee | noun (n.) One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made. |
apogee | noun (n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth. |
noun (n.) Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination. |
arnee | noun (n.) The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns. |
ashantee | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Ashantee. |
assessee | noun (n.) One who is assessed. |
avowee | noun (n.) The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson. |
axletree | noun (n.) A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve. |
noun (n.) A spindle or axle of a wheel. |
axtree | noun (n.) Axle or axletree. |
banshee | noun (n.) Alt. of Banshie |
bargee | noun (n.) A bargeman. |
baubee | noun (n.) Same as Bawbee. |
bawbee | noun (n.) A halfpenny. |
bee | noun (n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee. |
noun (n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. | |
noun (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. | |
() p. p. of Be; -- used for been. |
belooche beloochee | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. |
benshee | noun (n.) See Banshee. |
bootee | noun (n.) A half boot or short boot. |
boottree | noun (n.) An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. |
boree | noun (n.) Same as BourrEe. |
bourree | noun (n.) An old French dance tune in common time. |
bridgetree | noun (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. |
brinjaree | noun (n.) A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound. |
bumblebee | noun (n.) A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound. |
burgee | noun (n.) A kind of small coat. |
noun (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels. |
burniebee | noun (n.) The ladybird. |
bansshee | noun (n.) Alt. of Banshie |
bhistee | noun (n.) Alt. of Bhisti |
bidarkee | noun (n.) Alt. of Bidarka |
cabree | noun (n.) The pronghorn antelope. |
calipee | noun (n.) A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy. |
callipee | noun (n.) See Calipee. |
caribbee | noun (n.) A Carib. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lying between those islands and Central America. |
chaldee | noun (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea. |
chariotee | noun (n.) A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats. |
chesstree | noun (n.) A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail. |
chickadee | noun (n.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note. |
chickaree | noun (n.) The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry. |
chimpanzee | noun (n.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high. |
chordee | noun (n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea. |
choree | noun (n.) See Choreus. |
noun (n.) a trochee. | |
noun (n.) A tribrach. |
chutnee | noun (n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc. |
coachee | noun (n.) A coachman |
coatee | noun (n.) A coat with short flaps. |
coffee | noun (n.) The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America. |
noun (n.) The coffee tree. | |
noun (n.) The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry. |
cognisee | noun (n.) See Cognizor, Cognizee. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH LEE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (le) - Words That Begins with le:
lea | noun (n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay. |
noun (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle. | |
noun (n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field. |
leach | noun (n.) See 3d Leech. |
noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. | |
noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. | |
noun (n.) See Leech, a physician. | |
verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. | |
verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. | |
verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation. |
leaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leach |
leachy | adjective (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like. |
lead | noun (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. |
noun (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead | |
noun (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. | |
noun (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. | |
noun (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. | |
noun (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. | |
noun (n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another. | |
noun (n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second. | |
noun (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead. | |
noun (n.) An open way in an ice field. | |
noun (n.) A lode. | |
noun (n.) The course of a rope from end to end. | |
noun (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. | |
noun (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. | |
noun (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. | |
noun (n.) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. | |
noun (n.) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others. | |
noun (n.) In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full lead of the ignition. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called negative lead. | |
noun (n.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft. | |
noun (n.) In spiral screw threads, worm wheels, or the like, the amount of advance of any point in the spiral for a complete turn. | |
noun (n.) A conductor conveying electricity, as from a dynamo. | |
noun (n.) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. | |
noun (n.) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it. | |
noun (n.) A r/le for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a r/le. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle. | |
verb (v. t.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter. | |
verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man. | |
verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil. | |
verb (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party. | |
verb (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause. | |
verb (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course). | |
verb (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led. | |
verb (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t. | |
verb (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices. |
leading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead |
noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead | |
noun (n.) The act of guiding, directing, governing, or enticing; guidance. | |
noun (n.) Suggestion; hint; example. | |
adjective (a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example. |
leaded | adjective (a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows. |
adjective (a.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Lead |
leaden | adjective (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball. |
adjective (a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky. | |
adjective (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish. |
leader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. |
noun (n.) One who goes first. | |
noun (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander. | |
noun (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins. | |
noun (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. | |
noun (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. | |
noun (n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. | |
noun (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor. | |
noun (n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached. | |
noun (n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. | |
noun (n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article. | |
noun (n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face. | |
noun (n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number. |
leadership | noun (n.) The office of a leader. |
leadhillite | noun (n.) A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color, consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland. |
leadman | noun (n.) One who leads a dance. |
leadsman | noun (n.) The man who heaves the lead. |
leadwort | noun (n.) A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). P. Europaea has lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers. |
leady | adjective (a.) Resembling lead. |
leaf | noun (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage. |
noun (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril. | |
noun (n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. | |
verb (v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May. |
leafing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leaf |
leafage | noun (n.) Leaves, collectively; foliage. |
leafcup | noun (n.) A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia). |
leafed | adjective (a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Leaf |
leafet | noun (n.) A leaflet. |
leafiness | noun (n.) The state of being leafy. |
leafless | adjective (a.) Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage. |
leaflet | noun (n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract. |
noun (n.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole. | |
noun (n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes. |
leafstalk | noun (n.) The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf. |
league | noun (n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each. |
noun (n.) A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. | |
noun (n.) An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate. | |
verb (v. t.) To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements. |
leaguing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of League |
leaguer | noun (n.) The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general. |
noun (n.) A siege or beleaguering. | |
verb (v. t.) To besiege; to beleaguer. |
leaguerer | noun (n.) A besieger. |
leak | noun (n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks. |
noun (n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out. | |
noun (n.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs. | |
adjective (a.) Leaky. | |
verb (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe. | |
verb (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps. |
leaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leak |
leakage | noun (n.) A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking. |
noun (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking. | |
noun (n.) A leak; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted. |
leakiness | noun (n.) The quality of being leaky. |
leal | adjective (a.) Faithful; loyal; true. |
leam | noun (n. & v. i.) See Leme. |
noun (n.) A cord or strap for leading a dog. |
leamer | noun (n.) A dog held by a leam. |
leaning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lean |
noun (n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism. |
lean | noun (n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. |
noun (n.) Unremunerative copy or work. | |
verb (v. t.) To conceal. | |
verb (v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. | |
verb (v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. | |
verb (v. i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. | |
verb (v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. | |
verb (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. | |
verb (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type. |
leanness | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being lean. |
leany | adjective (a.) Lean. |
leap | noun (n.) A basket. |
noun (n.) A weel or wicker trap for fish. | |
noun (n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound. | |
noun (n.) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast. | |
noun (n.) A fault. | |
noun (n.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals. | |
verb (v. i.) To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. | |
verb (v. i.) To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. | |
verb (v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch. | |
verb (v. t.) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch. |
leaping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leap |
noun (a. & n.) from Leap, to jump. |
leaper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, leaps. |
noun (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage. |
leapfrog | noun (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former. |
leapful | noun (n.) A basketful. |
lear | noun (n.) Lore; lesson. |
noun (n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n. | |
adjective (a.) See Leer, a. | |
verb (v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn. |
learning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Learn |
noun (n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy. | |
noun (n.) The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning. |
learnable | adjective (a.) Such as can be learned. |
learned | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Learn |
learner | noun (n.) One who learns; a scholar. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH LEE:
English Words which starts with 'l' and ends with 'e':
labiate | noun (n.) A plant of the order Labiatae. |
adjective (a.) Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs. | |
verb (v. t.) To labialize. |
labile | adjective (a.) Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. |
labiose | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas. |
laborsome | adjective (a.) Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. |
adjective (a.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor. |
labradorite | noun (n.) A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar. |
labrose | adjective (a.) Having thick lips. |
laburnine | noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum. |
labyrinthine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal. |
laccolite | noun (n.) Alt. of Laccolith |
lace | noun (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. |
noun (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. | |
noun (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. | |
noun (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. | |
verb (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. | |
verb (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). | |
verb (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. | |
verb (v. t.) To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. |
lacerable | adjective (a.) That can be lacerated or torn. |
lacerate | adjective (p. a.) Alt. of Lacerated |
verb (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart. |
lacerative | adjective (a.) Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. |
lacertine | adjective (a.) Lacertian. |
lache | noun (n.) Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim. |
lachrymable | adjective (a.) Lamentable. |
lachrymose | adjective (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. |
laciniate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Laciniated |
laciniolate | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae. |
lacklustre | noun (n.) A want of luster. |
adjective (a.) Wanting luster or brightness. |
lacrosse | noun (n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field. |
lactage | noun (n.) The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it. |
lactamide | noun (n.) An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine. |
lactarene | noun (n.) A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico. |
lactate | noun (n.) A salt of lactic acid. |
lactescence | noun (n.) The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. |
noun (n.) The latex of certain plants. See Latex. |
lactide | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance. |
lactifuge | noun (n.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body. |
lactimide | noun (n.) A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid. |
lactone | noun (n.) One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid. |
lactoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. |
lactose | noun (n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin. |
noun (n.) See Galactose. |
lactucone | noun (n.) A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium. |
lacune | noun (n.) A lacuna. |
lacunose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lacunous |
lacustrine | adjective (a.) Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. |
laddie | noun (n.) A lad; a male sweetheart. |
lade | noun (n.) The mouth of a river. |
noun (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain. | |
verb (v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. | |
verb (v. t.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw water. | |
verb (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc. |
ladrone | noun (n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal. |
ladylike | adjective (a.) Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. |
adjective (a.) Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. | |
adjective (a.) Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. |
ladylove | noun (n.) A sweetheart or mistress. |
laevigate | adjective (a.) Having a smooth surface, as if polished. |
laevulose | noun (n.) See Levulose. |
lafayette | noun (n.) The dollar fish. |
noun (n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States. |
lagune | noun (n.) See Lagoon. |
lainere | noun (n.) See Lanier. |
lake | noun (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. |
noun (n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. | |
noun (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. | |
verb (v. i.) To play; to sport. |
lakke | noun (n. & v.) See Lack. |
lamaite | noun (n.) One who believes in Lamaism. |
lambale | noun (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs. |
lambative | noun (n.) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture. |
adjective (a.) Taken by licking with the tongue. |
lamblike | adjective (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive. |
lamellate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lamellated |
lamellibranchiate | noun (n.) One of the Lamellibranchia. |
adjective (a.) Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. |
lamellose | adjective (a.) Composed of, or having, lamellae; lamelliform. |
lamentable | adjective (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. |
adjective (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. | |
adjective (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. |
laminable | adjective (a.) Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. |
laminarite | noun (n.) A broad-leafed fossil alga. |
laminate | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated. |
verb (v. t.) To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates. | |
verb (v. t.) To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling. | |
verb (v. i.) To separate into laminae. |
lampadrome | noun (n.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize. |
lampate | noun (n.) A supposed salt of lampic acid. |
lampyrine | noun (n.) An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridae. See Lampyris. |
lanarkite | noun (n.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color. |
lance | noun (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. |
noun (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. | |
noun (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. | |
noun (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. | |
noun (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. | |
verb (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. | |
verb (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch. |
lancegaye | noun (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. |
lanceolate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lanceolated |
lancepesade | noun (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal. |
landgrave | noun (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France. |
landgraviate | noun (n.) The territory held by a landgrave. |
noun (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave. |
landgravine | noun (n.) The wife of a landgrave. |
landreeve | noun (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward. |
landscape | noun (n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. |
noun (n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. | |
noun (n.) The pictorial aspect of a country. |
landslide | noun (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. |
noun (n.) The land which slips down. |
lane | noun (n.) A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. |
adjective (a.) Alone. |
langate | noun (n.) A linen roller used in dressing wounds. |
langrage | noun (n.) Alt. of Langrel |
langridge | noun (n.) See Langrage. |
langsyne | noun (adv. & n.) Long since; long ago. |
language | noun (n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. |
noun (n.) The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality. | |
noun (n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation. | |
noun (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style. | |
noun (n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants. | |
noun (n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. | |
noun (n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology. | |
noun (n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech. | |
verb (v. t.) To communicate by language; to express in language. |
lanifice | noun (n.) Anything made of wool. |
lanthanite | noun (n.) Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals. |
lanthopine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance. |
lanuginose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lanuginous |
laparocele | noun (n.) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions. |
lapicide | noun (n.) A stonecutter. |
lapidescence | noun (n.) The state or quality of being lapidescent. |
noun (n.) A hardening into a stone substance. | |
noun (n.) A stony concretion. |
lapsable | adjective (a.) Lapsible. |
lapse | noun (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. |
noun (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude. | |
noun (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege. | |
noun (n.) A fall or apostasy. | |
verb (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. | |
verb (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall. | |
verb (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. | |
verb (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. |
lapsible | adjective (a.) Liable to lapse. |
lapstone | noun (n.) A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather. |
lapstrake | adjective (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats. |
lare | noun (n.) Lore; learning. |
noun (n.) Pasture; feed. See Lair. | |
verb (v. t.) To feed; to fatten. |
large | noun (n.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves. |
superlative (superl.) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city. | |
superlative (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. | |
superlative (superl.) Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. | |
superlative (superl.) Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart. | |
superlative (superl.) Free; unembarrassed. | |
superlative (superl.) Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. | |
superlative (superl.) Prodigal in expending; lavish. | |
superlative (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. | |
adverb (adv.) Freely; licentiously. |
largesse | adjective (a.) Liberality; generosity; bounty. |
adjective (a.) A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. |
larine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gull family (Laridae). |
larve | noun (n.) A larva. |
larungoscope | noun (n.) An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image. |
laryngotome | noun (n.) An instrument for performing laryngotomy. |
lassie | noun (n.) A young girl; a lass. |
lassitude | noun (n.) A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. |