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Show SL SL 3. That which lies dormant, or withou effett Let penal laws, if they have been fleepers o fong, or if grown unfit for the prefent time, be b Bacon wife judges confined in the execution SLEEPILY Ainfworth A fith adv. [from fleep. 2. Dully ; lazily I rather chufe to endure the wounds of thof on fafely and fleepil mifi:akil‘lgs than to g at novelty in the eafy ways of ancien Raleigh 3« Stupidly He would make us believe that Luther in thef altions pretended to authority, forgetting what h Atterbury had /fleepily owned before SLee'PiNESS. 7. /0 [from fleepy.] Drowfinefs ; difpofition to fleep ; inability t keep awake Watchfulnefs precedes too great flecpinefs, and i the moft ill-boding fymptom of a fever. Arbuth Wanting SLEE'PLESS. adj. [from flecp. {leep The fiel To labour calls us, now with fiveat impos'd Milton's Par. Loff Though after flecplefs night While penfive poets painful vigils keep Sleeplefs themfelves to give their readers fleep. Pope SLeE'pY. adj. [from fleep. 1. Drowfy ; difpofe to fleep and {fmea Go, carry them The fleepy grooms with blood. Sbakefp. Macketh She wak'd her fleepy crew And, rifing hafty, took a fhort adieu Soporiferous fleep Dryden fomniferous caufin We will give you fleepy drinks, that your fenfes unintelligent of our infufficience may thoug they cannot praife us, as little accufe us Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale Let fuch bethink them, if the fleepy drenc Of that forgetful lake benumb not ftill Milton I fleeped about eight hours, and no wonder for the phyficians had mingled a fleepy potion i the wine SLeeT Set. fnow Gulliver 7. /. [perhaps from the Danif A kind of {fmooth fmall hail o not falling in flakes but fingl particles Now van to van the foremoft fquadrons meet The midmoft battles haft'ning up behind Who view, far off, the ftorm of falling feet -And hear their thunder rattling in the wind Perpetual fleet and driving (no Dryd Obfcure the fkies, and hang on herds below Huge oxen ftand inclos'd in wintry wall Of fnow congeal'd Dryden Rains would have been poured down, as th vapours became cooler ; next fleer, then fnow, an ice ra'L}}cr to be all prudent forefight, 10}' plicity lze over-reached by Cuinning e btouj Fair Una to the red crofs knightg e Betrothed is with joy T};)Iug}} {?lfe Dueffa, it to bar cr falf Shake[peare Shall draw him on to his confufion.,Sb. Ma Out ftept the ample fiz tes The mafiy fubftance of that idol great What fleight had fhe the wardens to betray What ftrength to heave the goddefs from her feat? . /. redknel Doubtlefs the pleafure is as grea Cheyne 9o SLEET. @.n [from the noun. T fnow in fmall particles, intermixed wit rain SLee'ry. adj. [from the noun.] Bringin fleet SLEEVE. n f. [rly, Saxon. 1. The part of a garment that covers th arms Once my well-waiting eyes efpied my treafure With flecwes turn'd up, loofe hair, and breaft enlarged Her father's corn, moving her fair limbs, meafure Sidney The deep fmock fleeve, which the Irifh wome ufe, they fay, was old Spanifh ; and yet that fhoul feem rather to be an old Englifh fathion : for i armory, the fafhion of the Manche, which i As lookers on feel moft delight That leaft perceive the juggler's fleight. Hudifr Goo While innocent he fcorns ignoble flight His honeft friends preferve him bya fleights S‘Wjfltff; 1. Thin; {fmallin circumference com with the length ; not thick So thick the rofes bufhing roun About her glow'd; half ftooping to fuppor What flender youth, bedew'd with liquid gdmm Courts thee on rofes in fome pleafant cav Beauteous Helen fhines among the rl':l' Tall, flender, ftraight, with all the graces D:y jcl 3. Not bulky in ch nd fl i he ar t a h And might 4. Small ; inconfiderable ; weak as many as refufe to embrace the fame, f{":" ol e d : u f f fi i th a t r g r fpecia grounds be more than Slender P‘mbablhn;ts.lam ati -{"‘»Seu:o k m t d e gr el re f Where joy m !n t'- .ld acc d e J o s v i g Grief joys, jo Pofitively to define that feafon, there IEA ubl reh; tha or com It is a very flende troudi g i t ice diftinét o v : h z b : ‘ l g ] t [ l i l t : : u in the trouble it cre 875 Sparing ; lef der eftate, f i Th e J in by that other fable of th SLEIGHT. . /. [ flag'd, cunning, Iflandick.] Artful trick ; cunning artifice dexterous prattice: as, feighs of hand Brown's Vi "{g‘f'uf:: difficulty wa Hall multiprefence My landlady quarrelled with him for fendin every one of her children on a fleeweclefs errand, a Spectator the calls it 3 whole world unto that which they" teac c e n f a h a r h not fear to give ver and therefore means plainly abjurd, foolif brought into the worl J Yet they, who claim the general affentof Loy or lifeagree to fuga kno tranfubftantiatio not ftrong flight Love in thefe labyrinths his flaves dcla}DS; or fkein, and {o fignify unconneted, hanging ill together 2 or from fleewe, a cover o M pe fh fi n v h i w t i 2. Sma feffed, I know not well how it obtained avithout palliation ? SLE'NDER. adj. [ flinder, Dutch 2. Wanting reafonablenefs ; wanting propriety; wanting folidity. [This {enfe of which the word has been long pof This fleevelefs tal Dryden Each flow''r of flender ftalk His clothes were ftrange tho® coarfe, and blac tho' bare Sleewelefs his jerkin was, and it had bee Velvet ; but *twas now, fo much ground was feen Donne Become tufftaftaty They put on flecvelefs coats of home-fpun cotSandys ton Behold yon ifle by palmers, pilgrims trod Grave mummers! flecuelefs fome, and fhirtlef Pope others Skinner thinks it properly Liwele/ Jefs : to this I cannot heartil though I know not what bette geft. Can‘it come from fleeve L' Bffrange grofsly impofe upon us Havin fleeves ; having no {leeves 1. Wantin a fleight of hand)or When we hear death related, we are all villn to favour the flight, when the poet does not Ainfavorth SLEE'VED. adj. [from fleeve) fleeves SLEE'VELESS. adj. [from fleeve. is bu pearances like truths ent Itis not for a man which doth know, or fhoul know, what orders, and what peaceable govern A fith humou faculty making truths look likeappearances, orap 4. To hang on a_fleeve ; to make depend 5. [lolligo, Lat. Of being cheated, as to cheat John laughed heartily in his flecwe at the prid Arbuthnot's Hiftory of Fobn Bull of the efquire Hooker Whatever fleights, none would fufpicious mark As from his wit and native fubtilt Proceeding and in his flecwe laughs at them for believSouth's Sermons trine Rl In the wily fnak thof ment requireth, to afk why we fhould hang ou judgment upon the church's fleeve, and why i matters of orders more than in matters of doc CbflM She could not fo conve Shak o fon That crafty one as huge in flight A brace of fharpers laugh at the whole roguer L' Effrange in their fleewes voi Of mig{ny Ajax, huge in ftrength; to him, Lag phrafe utterl As, by the ftrength of their illufio of filk, which is by fom themfelve i Shall raife fuch artificial fprig‘{'ts, 3. Sleeve, Dutch, fignifies a cover; an thing {pread over: which feems to b the fenfe of fleeve in the proverbia kno And that, diftill'd by magick fLigh very probably fuppofed to be its mean[Se ing in the following paflage SLEAVE, Me Ll catch it ere it come to ground ; 2. SLEEVE, in {fome provinces, fignifies The innocent fleep Sleep that knits up the ravell'd flecve of care fleight do employ i Upon the co{ixegr of the rxfolgx{" Fily Q There hangs a vap'rous drop profoynd He was cloathed in cloth, with wide fleeves an Bacon a cape In velvet white as fnow the troop was gown'd Dryden Their hoods and flecves the fame them ing Why did you bring thefe daggers from the place 3 licy, doth not give counfel to he im qualities which the impudent fycophant afcribes t 2. Not awake They muft lie there 3 He that exhorted to beware o,f an Shakefpeare lefs defolation You would think a fmock a fhe-angel, he f chants to the fleeve band, and the work about th knot or fkei written, but lefs properly, fligky your fhoe untied, demonftrating a care fquare on't 5L the tricks of a juggler fathioned much like to that flecve : and knights in ancient times, vfed to wear their miftrefs's o love's flecwe upon their arms. Sir Launcelot wor the fleeve of the fair maid of Afteloth in a tousSpenfer's Ireland ney Your hofe fhould be ungartered, your flezve unbuttoned 1. Drowfily; with defire to {leep darts, which envy caftet given in arms, being nothing elfe but a flaewe, i [exocwtus. 4 t You r Not ampl fupplied deign i o ) f ) Thfg{od I gy fe pr hi wi l ta nd fl tongh e m c gr T N In obftruétions inflammatory, the alm:irbutbfl".‘ % i\ hfld il to be cool,fl:'mffrg thin, dnutinss'bfi'wbgn!«fi ‘r W |
