sleeping bag (slepingbag)

A bag of skin or fur into which explorers in frozen regions creep, feet foremost, when preparing for sleep. list. IMG:content-1276.png:[blocks in formation] The sleety storm returning still, The morning hoar, and evening chill. T. Warton, Odes, x. sleevel (slēv), n. [ sleve , slefe (pl. slefes , sleven ), slēfe , slēf , slyfe , slyf = MD. sleve , a sleeve (cf. MD. sloove , veil, skin, the turning up of a thing, D. sloof , an apron; MHG. • slouf , a garment, also a handle, MLG. slū , LG. slu , sluwe = MHG. sloufe, G. schlaube, schlauf , a husk, shell); prob. lit. 'that into which the arm slips' (cf. slip1 , a garment, slop2 , a garment, and slipper2 , light shoe, from the same ult. source, and so named for the same reason), AS. slupan, slip: see slip1. For the change of p to f, cf. shaft3, as re lated to shape.] 1. That part of a garment which forms a covering for the arm: as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. At different times during the middle ages extraordinarily long, pendent sleeves were in use, some sleeping-carriage (slēping-kar"āj), n. Same as sleeping -car. [Eng.] sleeping-draught (sle'ping-draft), n . A drink given to induce sleep. Same