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- English Word Sleek Definition To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.
- English Word Sleeked Definition of Sleek
- English Word Sleeking Definition of Sleek
- English Word Sleekly Definition In a sleek manner; smoothly.
- English Word Sleekness Definition The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
- English Word Sleeky Definition Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.
- English Word Sleeky Definition Fawning and deceitful; sly.
- English Word Sleep Definition imp. of Sleep. Slept.
- English Word Sleep Definition 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.
- English Word Sleep Definition To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- English Word Sleep Definition To be dead; to lie in the grave.
- English Word Sleep Definition 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.
- English Word Sleep Definition To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
- English Word Sleep Definition To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
- English Word Sleep Definition 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 loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.
- English Word Sleep-at-noon Definition A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.
- English Word Sleep-charged Definition Heavy with sleep.
- English Word Sleeper Definition One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
- English Word Sleeper Definition That which lies dormant, as a law.
- English Word Sleeper Definition A sleeping car.
- English Word Sleeper Definition An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
- English Word Sleeper Definition A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
- English Word Sleeper Definition A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
- English Word Sleeper Definition Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
- English Word Sleeper Definition One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
- English Word Sleeper Definition One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
- English Word Sleeper Definition One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
- English Word Sleeper Definition The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
- English Word Sleepful Definition Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.
- English Word Sleepily Definition In a sleepy manner; drowsily.