the side of something that is sheltered from the wind, American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870), A sheltered place; esp, a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection, adjective_ Located in or facing the path of an oncoming glacier Used of a geologic formation, adjective_ Nautical Of or relating to the side sheltered from the wind, Located in or facing the path of an oncoming glacier Used of a geologic formation, a tide running in the same direction that the wind blows, intransitive verb_ obsolete To lie; to speak falsely