Definition of congees:
(n) :
(Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
(n) :
Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
(n) :
(obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
(n) :
(obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
(n) :
(obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
(v) :
(obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.