be-lee'd
“and calm'd,”
OTHELLO, i. 1. 30.
“I have been informed that one vessel is said to be in the
lee of another when it is so placed that the
wind is intercepted from it. Iago's meaning therefore is, that Cassio had got the wind of
him, and be-calm'd him from going on. To be-calm (as I learn from Falconer's Marine
Dictionary) is likewise to obstruct the current of the wind in its passage to a
ship, by any contiguous object”
(STEEVENS)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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