sleepyhead (slepihed)

1. An idle, lazy person. [Colloq.] -2. The sleepy duck. sleepy-seeds (slēpi-sēdz), n. pl. The mucous secretion of the conjunctiva, or the sebaceous matter of the Meibomian follicles, dried in flakes or little ma es at the edges or corners of the eyelids during sleep. [A familiar or nursery word.] sleert, n. sleet1 (slēt), n. [ A Middle English form of slayer . due to one or more inversions in the normal decrease of temperature with increase of altitude, as, for example, when fine rain-drops falling from an air-current whose temperature is 32° F. or over freeze in traversing colder air-strata near the earth's surface. The bittre frostes with the sleet and reyn Destroyed hath the grene in every yerd. Chaucer , Franklin's Tale, 1. 522. They shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers. Milton, P. R., iii. 324. February bleak Smites with his sleet the traveller's cheek. Bryant, Song Sparrow. sleet1 (slēt), v. i. [ from the arm, and Sleeves, long and hanging, 12th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") was generally called a hanging sleeve, although the actual sleeve was independent of it. Japanese ceremonial cos Sleeve worn as a favor at knight's left shoulder. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") tume also has sleeves of remarkable length and width, the arm being generally pa ed through a hole in the side of the sleeve. Than ech of us toke other by the sleue And forthwith all, as we should take our leue. Chaucer, A embly of Ladies. Thy gown was of the gra ie green, Thy sleeves of satten hanging by. Green sleeves (Child's Ballads, IV. 242). The Gentlemen (Gentlemen must pardon me the abasing of the name), to bee distinguished from the rest, weare a iacket of blew cotton with wide sleeues . Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 641. 2. In mech., a tube into which a rod or another tube is inserted. If small, it is often called a thimble; when fixed and serving merely to strengthen the object which it incloses, it is called a reinforce. In most of its applications, however, the two parts have more or le relative circular or longitudinal motion. E. H. Knight. Gigot sleeve. Same as leg - of - mutton sleeve. - Hippocгаtes's sleeve, a name among old chemists for a strainer made of flannel or of similar material in the form of a long bag.-Lawn sleeves. See lawn2. Leg-of-mutton sleeve, a full and loose sleeve, tight at the armhole and wrist, as of a woman's dre : a fashion of the early part sleeve of the nineteenth century. - Mandarin sleeve. See man sleezy, a. darin. Ridged sleeve. See ridge. To hang or pin sleght, a. (anything) upon the sleeve, to make (anything) depen sleghtt. 5692 See sleazy . A Middle English form of sly . tt. An old spelling of slight1, sleight2. to sley, slay2.] Unwoven; untwisted, as silk. It is not for a man which doth know, or should know, sleidedt, a . [Origin obscure; usually referred what orders, and what peaceable government requireth, to ask why we should hang our judgement upon the church's sleeve , and why in matters of orders more than in matters of doctrine. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. To hang upon one's sleeve, to be dependent upon one. -To have in one's sleeve, to have in hand ready for a vacancy or emergency; be provided with or have ready to present as occasion demands. The sleeve was formerly used as a pocket, as it still is in China, Japan, etc.] The better to winne his purposes & good aduantages, as now & then to haue a journey or sickne e in his sleeve, thereby to shake of other importunities of greater conse Putten ham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 251. quence. To laugh in one's sleeve. See laugh. To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve. See heart. sleevel (slēv), v . t .; pret. and pp. sleeved , ppr. sleeving. [ sleven ; sleeve2, n . and v . See sleave . sleeve-axle (slēv'ak sl), n. A hollow axle which runs upon a shaft. E. H. Knight . sleeve-board (slēv'bord), n . by tailors in pre ing sleeves. The board used There's a celebrated fight in that [ballet] between the tailor with his sleeve - board and goose and the cobbler with his clam and awl. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, III. 146. sleeve-button (slēv'but"n), n . A button used to fasten a sleeve; in modern costume, a button or stud, usually large and decorative, to hold together the two sides of the wristband or cuff; by extension, a sleeve-link.