Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 95

Sleety (a.) Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.

Sleeve (n.) See Sleave, untwisted thread.

Sleeve (n.) The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown.

Sleeve (n.) A narrow channel of water.

Sleeve (n.) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.

Sleeve (n.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.

Sleeve (n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.

Sleeved (imp. & p. p.) of Sleeve

Sleeving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleeve

Sleeve (v. t.) To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.

Sleeved (a.) Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.

Sleevefish (n.) A squid.

Sleevehand (n.) The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband.

Sleeveless (a.) Having no sleeves.

Sleeveless (a.) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless.

Sleided (imp. & p. p.) of Sleid

Sleiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleid

Sleid (v. t.) To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.

Sleigh (a.) Sly.

Sleigh (n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.

Sleighing (n.) The act of riding in a sleigh.

Sleighing (n.) The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.

Sleight (n.) Cunning; craft; artful practice.

Sleight (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.

Sleight (n.) Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

Sleightful (a.) Cunning; dexterous.

Sleightly (adv.) Cinningly.

Sleighty (a.) Cinning; sly.

Slender (superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.

Slender (superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.

Slender (superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.

Slender (superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.

Slender (superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.

Slender (superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Slent (n. & v.) See Slant.

Slep () imp. of Sleep. Slept.

Slepez (n.) A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat.

Slept () imp. & p. p. of Sleep.

Sleuth (n.) The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

Sleuthhound (n.) A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.

Slew () imp. of Slay.

Slew (v. t.) See Slue.

Slewed (a.) Somewhat drunk.

Slewth (n.) Sloth; idleness.

Sley (v. t.) A weaver's reed.

Sley (v. t.) A guideway in a knitting machine.

Sley (v. t.) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed; -- a term used by weavers. See Sleave, and Sleid.

Slibber (a.) Slippery.

Slice (v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

Slice (v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.

Slice (v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.

Slice (v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.

Slice (v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.

Slice (v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

Slice (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.

Sliced (imp. & p. p.) of Slice

Slicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slice

Slice (v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

Slice (v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.

Slice (v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

Slicer (n.) One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.

Slich (n.) Alt. of Slick

Slick (n.) See Schlich.

Slick (a.) Sleek; smooth.

Slick (v. t.) To make sleek or smoth.

Slick (n.) A wide paring chisel.

Slicken (a.) Sleek; smooth.

Slickens (n.) The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

Slickensides (n.) A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.

Slicker (n.) That which makes smooth or sleek.

Slicker (n.) A kind of burnisher for leather.

Slicker (n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.

Slicker (n.) A waterproof coat.

Slicking (n.) The act or process of smoothing.

Slicking (n.) Narrow veins of ore.

Slickness (n.) The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

Slid () imp. & p. p. of Slide.

Slidden () p. p. of Slide.

Slidder (v. t.) To slide with interruption.

Slidder (v. t.) Alt. of Sliddery

Slidderly (v. t.) Alt. of Sliddery

Sliddery (v. t.) Slippery.

Slid (imp.) of Slide

Slidden (p. p.) of Slide

Slid () of Slide

Slidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slide

Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

Slide (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.

Slide (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.

Slide (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

Slide (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

Slide (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.

Slide (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.

Slide (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.

Slide (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.

Slide (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.

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