lee
n [SING]
1 part or side of sth providing shelter against the wind 背风处
shelter in/under the lee of a hedge 躲避在树篱的背风处.
2 [attrib 作定语]
(nautical 海) of or on the part or side away from the wind 背风面的; 下风的
the lee side of the ship 船的下风舷. Cf 参看 windward (wind1).
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.