sleech (slech)

t. [ = Her fleshe tender as is a chike, With bente browes, smothe and slyke . Rom. of the Rose, 1. 542. The oiled sleek wrestler struggled with his peers. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 217. 2. Oily; plausible; insinuating; flattering: as, a sleek rogue; a sleek tongue. How smooth and slick thou art, no where abiding! Heywood, Dialogues (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 175). Self-love never yet could look on truth But with bleared beams; slick flattery and she Are twin-born sisters. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1. 3. Dexterous; skilful; neat in execution or action: as, a sleek or slick bowler. [Colloq.] Drayton, Barons' Wars, fii. 47. To sleek her ruffled peace of mind. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. Some nights when she's ben inter our house a play in' checkers or fox an' geese with the child'en, she'd railly git Hepsy slicked down so that't was kind o' comfortable bein' with her. H. B. Stowe , Oldtown, p. 409. II. in trans. To move in a smooth manner; glide; sweep. Compare slike1 . For, as the racks came sleeking on, one fell With rain into a dell. Leigh Hunt , Foliage, p. xxx. ( Davies .) sleek, slick1 (slēk, slik), adv. [ Jack Marshal and me and the other fellers round to the store used to like to get him to read the Columbian Sentinel to us; he did it off slicker than any on us could; he did-there wa'n't no kind o' word could stop him. H. B. Stowe , Oldtown, p. 253. sleeked (slēkt), a . [ sleek + -ed2.] Smooth. sleeken (slē'kn), v . t . [ sleek + -en1.] To make smooth, soft, or gentle; sleek. [Rare.] And all voices that addre her Soften, sleeken every word. Mrs. Browning , A Portrait. n . [ sleek , sleeker, slicker (slē'kėr, slik'ėr), slick1, + -er1.] 1. In leather - manuf., a tool of steel or gla in a wooden stock, used with pre ure to dre the surface of leather, in order to remove inequalities and give a polish. The sides of lace-leather are finished by laying them upon a flat table and smoothing them out with a gla slicker . C. T. Davis , Leather, p. 565. 2. In founding, a small tool, usually of bra , made in a variety of shapes, used to smooth the curved surfaces of molds.-3. An oilskin or water-proof overcoat. [Cow-boy slang.] We had turned the horses loose, and in our oilskin slick ers cowered, soaked and comfortle , under the lee of the wagon. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 864. [Chiefly in technical or colloquial use, and commonly slicker . ] sleek-headed (slēkʼhed"ed), a . Having a sleek or smooth and shining head. Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek - headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. IMG:content-1272.jpg:[graphic] Shak ., J. C., i. 2. 193. sleeking, slicking (slēʻking, slik'ing), n. [Verbal n. of sleek, slick1, v.] The act of making a thing sleek or smooth. Specifically - ( a ) In hat - mak sleeking ing, the operation of putting the fur nap on the felt body. (b) In leather - manuf., the use of the sleeker or slicker. sleeking-gla , slicking-gla (slē'king-, slik'ing-glas), n. A gla or gla -faced implement used to give a glo to textile fabrics. sleekit (slē'kit), a. [Sc. form of sleeked.] 1. Sleeked; having smooth hair or a sleek skin. Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie. Burns , To a Mouse. 2. Figuratively, smooth and plausible; deceitful; sly; cunning. [Scotch in both uses.] 5690 We sleep over our happine , and want to be roused to a quick thankful sense of it. Bp. Atterbury. 6. In bot., to a ume a state, as regards vegeta sleeper in different cases. Thus, among the Oxalidaceæ the sleep movement consists in the downward sinking of the leaflets, which become at the same time folded on themselves. Among the Legumin ose, the leaflets, in some Erythrina crista-gall i, out of doors and nailed against a wall, seemed in fairly good health, but the leaflets did not sleep, whilst those on another plant kept in a warm greenhouse were all vertically dependent at night. Darwin, Movement in Plants, p. 318. 7. To be or become numb through stoppage of they sink down while the main petiole rises (terminal leaflet of Desmodium ); in others, they sink downward and twist on their axes so that their upper surfaces are in contact beneath the main petiole ( Ca ia ); in others, again, they rise and bend backward toward the insertion of the petiole ( Coronilla ); in others, they rise, and the main petiole rises also, whereas in Mimosa pudic a the leaflets rise and bend forward, while the main petiole falls. In manner; smoothly; glo ily. sleekne , slickne (slēk'nes, slik'nes), n. Sleek character or appearance; smoothne and glo ine of surface. sleek-stonet, slick-stonet (slēk'-, slik'stōn), n. [Early mod. E. slyckestone, slekestone, Shee that wanteth a sleeke - stone to smooth hir linnen wil take a pebble. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 220. I had said that, because the Remonstrant was so much offended with those who were tart against the Prelats, sure he lov'd toothle e Satirs, which I took were as improper as a toothed Sleekstone . Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. sleeky (slē'ki), a . [ sleek +-y1.] 1. Of a sleek or smooth appearance. Sweet, sleeky doctor, dear pacifick soul! Lay at the beef, and suck the vital bowl! Thomson, To the Soporific Doctor. 2. Sly; cunning; fawning; deceitful: as, a sleeky knave. sleep (slēp), v.; pret. and pp. slept, ppr. sleeping. [ MLG. LG. slapen = OHG. slafan, MHG. slafen, G. schlafen = Goth. slēpan (redupl. pret. saislēp ), sleep; cf. MLG. LG. slap (> G. schlapp ) = OHG. MHG. slaf, G. schlaff, lax, loose, feeble, weak, = Dan. slap = Sw. slapp, lax, loose (= AS. as if * slæp, an adj. related to slæpan, sleep, as læt, late, to lætan, let); akin to OBulg. slabă, lax, weak; L. labare, totter, sink, be loosened, lab i, fall, slide: see labent, lapse. No cognate form of this verb is found in Scand. (where another verb, cognate with the L., Gr., and Skt. words for 'sleep,' appears: see sweven ).] I. in trans. 1. To take the repose or rest which is afforded by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousne ; slumber. See the noun. Upon that Roche was Jacob slepynge whan he saughe the Aungeles gon up and doun by a Laddre. Mandeville , Travels, p. 86. But sleep'st thou now? when from yon hill the foe Hangs o'er the fleet, and shades our walls below? Pope , Iliad, x. 182. 2. To fall asleep; go to sleep; slumber. A fewe sheep spinning on feeld she kepte; She wolde nought been ydel til she slepte . Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 224. Merlin, overtalk'd and overworn, Had yielded, told her all the charm, and slept . asleep.-Sleeping partner. See partner. - To sleep upon both ears. See earl. = Syn. 1 and 2. Drowse, Doze, Slumber, Sleep, nap, rest, repose. The first four words expre the stages from full consciousne to full unconsciousne in sleep. Sleep is the standard or general word. Drowse expre es that state of heavine when one does not quite surrender to sleep. Doze expre es the endeavor to take a sort of waking nap. Slumber has largely lost its earlier sense of the light beginning of sleep, and is now more often an elevated or poetical word for sleep. II. trans. 1. To take rest in: with a cognate object, and therefore transitive in form only: as, to sleep the sleep that knows no waking. He ther slepte no slepe, manly waked ryght, The sparhauke sagely fede by gouernaunce, A repaste hym yaf wel to conysaunce. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5463. Tennyson, Day-Dream, L'Envoi. Yet sleeps a dreamle sleep to me. 2. With away: To pa or consume in sleeping: as, to sleep away the hours; to sleep away one's life.-3. With off or out: To get rid of or overcome by sleeping; recover from during sleep: as, to sleep off a headache or a debauch. And there, When he has slept it out , he will perhaps Be cur'd, and give us answerable thanks. Brome, Queens Exchange, iii. 4. To afford or provide sleeping-accommodation for: as, a car or cabin that can sleep thirty persons. [Colloq.] They were to have a double row of beds "two tire" high to admit of sleeping 100 men and 60 women. Quoted in Ribton - Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 399. sleep (slēp), n. [ tively carried on; the pupils are contracted; and the brain is said to be anemic. If the depth of sleep is measured by the noise nece ary to waken the sleeper, it reaches its maximum within the first hour and then diminishes, at first rapidly, then more slowly. Half in a dreme, not fully weel a-wakid, The golden sleep me wrapt vndir his wieng. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 52. Else could they not catch tender sleep ; which still Is shy and fearful, and flies every voice. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iv. 41. Sleep is a normal condition of the body, occurring peri odically, in which there is a greater or le degree of unconsciousne due to inactivity of the nervous system and more especially of the brain and spinal cord. It may be regarded as the condition of rest of the nervous system during which there is a renewal of the energy that has been expended in the hours of wakefulne . Encyc. Brit ., XXI. 154. Tennyson , Merlin and Vivien. 2. A period of sleep: as, a short sleep . 3. To lie or remain dormant; remain inactive or unused; be latent; be or appear quiet or quiescent; repose quietly: as, the sword sleeps in the scabbard. Sails are said to sleep when so stead- ily filled with wind as to be without motion or sound; and Gloton tho with good ale gerte [caused] Hunger to slepe . Piers Plowman (C), ix. 325. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Shak., M. of V., v. 1. 54. Once slept the world an egg of stone, And pulse, and sound, and light was none. Emerson , Woodnotes, ii. It seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing. Shak ., C. of E., v. 1. 71. On being suddenly awakened from a sleep , however profound, we always catch ourselves in the middle of a dream. W. James , Prin. of Psychol., I. 201. by the two lower. (S. H. Vines.) The mechanism of these movements is explained by Pfeffer and others as due to an increased growth on one side of the median line of the petiole or midrib, followed, after a certain interval of time, by a corresponding growth on the opposite side It is also accomplished by simple turgescence of opposite sides. The utility of the sleep-movements is believed to consist in protection from too great radiation. The cause or causes of these movements (and of analogous movements which have been called diurnal sleep: see the second quotation) are only imperfectly known, but they are undoubtedly largely due to sensitivene to variations in the intensity of light. See nyctitropism. Those movements which are brought about by changes in the amount of light constitute what are known as the " sleep " and "waking" of plants. Be ey, Botany, p. 198. There is another cla of movements, dependent on the action of light...: We refer to the movements of leaves and cotyledons which when moderately illuminated are diaheliotropic, but which change their positions and present their edges to the light when the sun shines brightly on them. These movements have sometimes been called diurnal sleep . Darwin, Movement in Plants, p. 445. On sleept, asleep. See asleep . For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep , and was laid unto his fathers. Acts xiii. 36. They went in to his chamber to rayse him, and comming to his beds side, found him fast on sleepe . Gas coigne, Works, p. 224. as go - to - bed - at - noon.