Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 94
Slavonian (a.) Alt. of Slavonic.
Slavonic (a.) Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.
Slavonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language.
Slavonian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Slavonia; ethnologically, a Slav. Slavophil
Slavophil (n.) Alt. of Slavophile.
Slavophile (n.) One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.
Slaw (n.) Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.
Slaw () Alt. of Slawen.
Slawen () (Obs.) p. p. of Slee, to slay.
With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. -- Wyclif (Acts xvi. 27.)
Slaw (n.) Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked. Slaw
Slaw (n.) Basically shredded cabbage [syn: coleslaw, slaw].
Slew (imp.) of Slay.
Slain (p. p.) of Slay.
Slaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slay.
Slay (v. t.) To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
Slayer (n.) One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
Slazy (a.) See Sleazy.
Sle (v. t.) To slay.
Sleave (n.) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
Sleave (n.) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.
Sleaved (imp. & p. p.) of Sleave.
Sleaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleave.
Sleave (v. t.) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
Sleaved (a.) Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk.
Sleaze (n.) [ U ] （尤指商界或政界的）卑劣行爲，醜行 Activities, especially business or political, of a low moral standard.
// The sleaze factor was the major reason for his electoral defeat.
Sleaze (n.) [ C ] (US) A sleazebag.
Sleazebag (n.) [ C ] (US also sleazeball, sleaze) (informal) 無恥之徒，下流胚子 A person who has low standards of honesty or morals.
Sleaziness (n.) Quality of being sleazy.
Sleazy (a.) Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Sled (n.) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
Sled (n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
Sledded (imp. & p. p.) of Sled.
Sledding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sled.
Sled (v. t.) To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.
Sledding (n.) 雪撬的使用 The act of transporting or riding on a sled.
Sledding (n.) The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
Sledding (n.) The sport of riding on a sled or sleigh.
Sledding (n.) Advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going"; "the proposal faces tough sledding" [syn: {going}, {sledding}].
Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
Sledge (n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
Sledge (n.) A sleigh.
Sledge (n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.
Sledged (imp. & p. p.) of Sledge.
Sledging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sledge.
Sledge (v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
Sledge (v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.
Slee (v. t.) To slay.
Sleek (a.) 光滑的，柔滑的；（動物等）養得好的，油光光的，壯健的；圓滑的，花言巧語的 Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. -- Chaucer.
So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make. -- Dryden.
Sleek (a.) Not rough or harsh.
Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek. -- Milton.
Sleek (adv.) With ease and dexterity. [Low]
Sleek (n.) That which makes smooth; varnish. [R.]
Sleek (n.) A slick.
Sleeked (imp. & p. p.) of Sleek.
Sleeking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleek.
Sleek (v. t.) 使光滑，使發油光 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.
Sleek (a.) Well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well- groomed; "sleek figures in expensive clothes".
Sleek (a.) Designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow; "a streamlined convertible" [syn: {streamlined}, {aerodynamic}, {flowing}, {sleek}].
Sleek (a.) Having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: {satiny}, {sleek}, {silken}, {silky}, {silklike}, {slick}].
Sleek (v.) Make slick or smooth [syn: {slick}, {sleek}].
Sleekly (adv.) 光滑地；光澤地 In a sleek manner; smoothly.
Sleekly (adv.) In a sleek glossy manner; "the wet road was shining sleekly".
Sleekness (n.) 油光發亮；時髦闊氣 The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
Sleekness (n.) The quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored; "the sleekness of his appearance reminded me of his financial successes".
Sleekness (n.) The smooth feel of silk fabric [syn: {silkiness}, {sleekness}].
Sleeky (a.) Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.
Sleeky (a.) Fawning and deceitful; sly.
Sleep () Obs. imp. of Sleep. Slept. -- Chaucer.
Slept (imp. & p. p.) of Sleep.
Sleeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleep.
Sleep (v. i.) 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.
Sleep (v. i.) Figuratively: To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
We sleep over our happiness. -- Atterbury.
Sleep (v. i.) Figuratively: To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. -- 1 Thess. iv. 14.
Sleep (v. i.) Figuratively: 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 (v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. -- Tennyson.
Sleep (v. t.) 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 (n.) 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. "A man that waketh of his sleep." -- Chaucer.
O sleep, thou ape of death. -- Shak.
Note: Sleep is attended by a relaxation of the muscles, and the absence of voluntary activity for any rational objects or purpose. The pulse is slower, the respiratory movements fewer in number but more profound, and there is less blood in the cerebral vessels. It is susceptible of greater or less intensity or completeness in its control of the powers.
Sleep of plants (Bot.), A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other, and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
Syn: Slumber; repose; rest; nap; doze; drowse.
Sleep (n.) A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber" [syn: sleep, slumber].
Sleep (n.) A torpid state resembling deep sleep [syn: sleep, sopor].
Sleep (n.) A period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap" [syn: sleep, nap].
Sleep (n.) Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus].
Sleep (v.) Be asleep [syn: sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's] [ant: wake].
Sleep (v.) Be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people".
Sleep (v. i.) [Techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler that a process may be deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses.
Sleep (v. i.) In jargon, used very similarly to v. block; also in sleep on, syn.: with block on. Often used to indicate that the speaker has relinquished a demand for resources until some (possibly unspecified) external event: ?
They can't get the fix I've been asking for into the next release, so I'm going to sleep on it until the release, then start hassling them again.?
Sleep, () (Or "{block") When a process on a multitasking system asks the scheduler to deactivate it until some given external event (e.g. an interrupt or a specified time delay) occurs.
poll+or+"{busy+wait">The alternative is to poll or "{busy wait" for the event but this uses processing power.
Also used in the phrase "sleep on" (or "block on") some external event, meaning to wait for it.
E.g. the Unix command of the same name which pauses the current process for a given number of seconds.
Sleep, () To go into partial deactivation to save power. [{Jargon File] (2000-09-25)
Sleep-at-noon (n.) A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.
Sleep-charged (a.) Heavy with sleep.
Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
Sleeper (n.) That which lies dormant, as a law. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car. [Colloq. U.S.]
Sleeper (n.) (Zool.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
Sleeper (n.) (Zool.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish ({Eleotris dormatrix).
Sleeper (n.) (Zool.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Sleeper (n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
Sleeper (n.) 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.
Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story. [U. S.]
Sleeper (n.) (Naut.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
Sleeper (n.) (Naut.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
Compare: Tetard
Tetard (n.) (Zool.) A gobioid fish ({Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
Sleeper (n.) A rester who is sleeping [syn: sleeper, slumberer].
Sleeper (n.) A spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal.
Sleeper (n.) An unexpected achiever of success; "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it".
Sleeper (n.) One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper" [syn: tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper].
Sleeper (n.) A passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: sleeping car, sleeper, wagon-lit].
Sleeper (n.) Pajamas with feet; worn by children.
Sleeper (n.) A piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed.
Sleeper (n.) Tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water [syn: sleeper, sleeper goby].
Sleeper (n.) An unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer".
Sleepful (a.) Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.
Sleepily (adv.) In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
Sleepiness (n.) The quality or state of being sleepy.
Sleeping () a. & n. from Sleep.
Sleepish (a.) Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.
Sleepless (a.) Having no sleep; wakeful.
Sleepless (a.) Having no rest; perpetually agitated.
Sleepmarken (n.) See 1st Hag, 4.
Sleepover (n.) 【美】（小孩）在朋友家過夜的晚會 An occasion of spending the night away from home, or of having a guest or guests spend the night in one's home, especially as a party for children.
‘It's Gretchen's birthday next week and she's having a sleepover.’
Sleepwaker (n.) On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
Sleepwaking (n.) The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
Sleepwalker (n.) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
Sleepwalking (n.) Walking in one's sleep.
Sleepwear (n.) 睡衣 Garments designed to be worn in bed [syn: {nightwear}, {sleepwear}, {nightclothes}].
Sleepy (n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
Sleepy (n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
Sleepy (n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
Sleepy (n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.
Sleepyhead (n.) A sleepy person.
Sleepyhead (n.) The ruddy duck.
Sleer (n.) A slayer.
Sleet (n.) 雨夾雪 The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Sleet (n.) Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
Sleeted (imp. & p. p.) of Sleet.
Sleeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleet.
Sleet (v. i.) 下雨雪，下冰雹 To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
Sleet (n.) Partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow).
Sleet (v.) Precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet".
Sleetch (n.) Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers.
Sleetiness (n.) The state of being sleety.