Lee.
This word is many wayes used, but generally the Lee is un∣derstood for that which is opposite to the wind: The Lee-shore, that is the shore against which the wind blowes; yet to be under the Lee of the shore, is to be close under the weather-shore, that is, whence the wind doth come: a-lee the helme, that is, put the helme to the lee∣fide of the ship: In conding they use to call him at helme, to have a care of the Lee-latch, that is, to looke that the ship goe not to lee-ward of her course (a Lee-ward ship, is one that is not fast by a-wind, and doth not make her way so good as she might: To come by the Lee, or to lay a ship by the Lee; is to bring her so, that all her sailes may lie against the Masts and shrowds flat, and the wind to come right on her bread-side, so that the ship will lie as it were starke still, or if she make any way, it will be with her broad-side right with the beame: The manner of bringing a ship by the Lee (if she have all her sailes a-boord) is to beare up the helme, hard to wind-ward: Let rise the fore-rack and veere-out the maine-sheate, and take in the Missen, or peake it