Sleek
(Sleek), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeked ;p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeking.] To make even and smooth; to
render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.
Sleeking her soft alluring locks.
Milton.
Gentle, my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks.
Shak. Sleekly
(Sleek"ly), adv. In a sleek manner; smoothly.
Sleekness
(Sleek"ness), n. The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
Sleeky
(Sleek"y) a.
1. Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance. Thomson.
2. Fawning and deceitful; sly. [Scot.]
Sleep
(Sleep) obs. imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
Sleep
(Sleep), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slept ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping.] [OE. slepen, AS. slpan; akin to
OFries. slpa, OS. slapan, D. slapen, OHG. slafan, G. schlafen, Goth. slpan, and G. schlaff slack,
loose, and L. labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf. Lapse.]
1. To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an
apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber. Chaucer.
Watching at the head of these that sleep.
Milton. 2. Figuratively: (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
We sleep over our happiness.
Atterbury. (b) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1 Thess. iv. 14. (c) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie
dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank!
Shak. Sleep
(Sleep), v. t.
1. To be slumbering in; — followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. Tennyson.
2. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. [R.] Blackw. Mag.
To sleep away, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time. — To sleep off, to become free
from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.
Sleep
(Sleep), n. [AS. sl&aemacrp; akin to OFries. slep, OS. slap, D. slaap, OHG. slaf, G. schlaf,
Goth. sleps. See Sleep, v. i.] A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of
the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of
the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a
