Sleet
(Sleet) n. (Gun.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Sleet
(Sleet), n. [OE. sleet; akin to MHG. slz, slze hailstone, G. schlosse; of uncertain origin.] Hail or
snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
Sleet
(Sleet), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sleeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeting.] To snow or hail with a mixture of
rain.
Sleetch
(Sleetch) n. [Cf. Slush, Slutch.] Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]
Sleetiness
(Sleet"i*ness) n. The state of being sleety.
Sleety
(Sleet"y) a. Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.
Sleeve
(Sleeve) n. See Sleave, untwisted thread.
Sleeve
(Sleeve), n. [OE. sleeve, sleve, AS. slfe, slfe; akin to slfan to put on, to clothe; cf. OD. sloove
the turning up of anything, sloven to turn up one's sleeves, sleve a sleeve, G. schlaube a husk, pod.]
1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.
2. A narrow channel of water. [R.]
The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve.
Drayton. 3. (Mach.) (a) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection
between two parts. (b) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel. (c) A short piece of pipe
used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
Sleeve button,
a detachable button to fasten the wristband or cuff. — Sleeve links, two bars or buttons
linked together, and used to fasten a cuff or wristband. — To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh privately
or unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person
or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times.
— To pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.
Sleeve
(Sleeve), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeving.] To furnish with sleeves; to
put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Sleeved
(Sleeved) a. Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; — often in composition; as, long- sleeved.
Sleevefish
(Sleeve"fish`) n. (Zoöl.) A squid.
Sleevehand
(Sleeve"hand`) n. The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband. [Obs.] Shak.
Sleeveless
(Sleeve"less), a. [AS. slfleás.]
1. Having no sleeves.
2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] Shak.
The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
Bp. Warburton. Sleid
(Sleid) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleided; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleiding.] [See Sley.] To sley, or prepare
for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie. Shak.
Sleigh
(Sleigh) a. Sly. [Obs.] Chaucer.