Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S

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Sleety (a.) Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.

Sleety (a.) Consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain.

Sleeve (n.) See Sleave, untwisted thread.

Sleeve (n.) The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. -- Chaucer.

Sleeve (n.) A narrow channel of water. [R.]

The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. -- Drayton.

Sleeve (n.) (Mach.) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.

Sleeve (n.) (Mach.) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.

Sleeve (n.) (Mach.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.

Sleeve (n.) (Elec.) A double tube of copper, in section like the figure 8, into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called.

A McIntire joint.

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 or To laugh up one's 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 pinon the sleeve of, or To hang on the sleeve of, To be, or make, dependent upon.

Sleeved (imp. & p. p.) of Sleeve.

Sleeving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleeve.

Sleeve (v. t.) To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.

Sleeve (n.) The part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm [syn: sleeve, arm].

Sleeve (n.) Small case into which an object fits.

Sleeved (a.) Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.

Sleeved (a.) Made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified; often used in combination; "sleeved garments"; "short-sleeved" [ant: sleeveless].

Sleevefish (n.) (Zool.) A squid.

Sleevehand (n.) The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Sleeveless (a.) Having no sleeves.

Sleeveless (a.) Lacking a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] -- Shak.

The vexation of a sleeveless errand. -- Bp. Warburton.

Sleeveless (a.) Having no sleeves; "sleeveless summer dresses" [ant: sleeved].

Sleeveless (a.) Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain].

Sleided (imp. & p. p.) of Sleid.

Sleiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sleid.

Sleid (v. t.) To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.

Sleigh (a.) Sly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Sleigh (n.) （輕便）雪橇 [C] A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.

Sleigh bell, A small bell attached either to a horse when drawing a slegh, or to the sleigh itself; especially a globular bell with a loose ball which plays inside instead of a clapper.

Sleigh (n.) A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow [syn: sled, sledge, sleigh].

Sleigh (v.) (v. i.) 駕雪橇；乘雪橇 Ride (on) a sled [syn: sled, sleigh].

Sleighing (n.) The act of riding in a sleigh.

Sleighing (n.) The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.

Sleight (n.) Cunning; craft; artful practice.

Sleight (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.

Sleight (n.) Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

Sleightful (a.) Cunning; dexterous.

Sleightly (adv.) Cinningly.

Sleighty (a.) Cinning; sly.

Slender (a.) 纖細的，苗條的；微少的，微薄的 Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.

Slender (a.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.

Slender (a.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.

Slender (a.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.

Slender (a.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.

Slender (a.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Slender (a.) Being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" [syn: {slender}, {slight}, {slim}, {svelte}].

Slender (a.) Very narrow; "a thin line across the page" [syn: {slender}, {thin}].

Slender (a.) Having little width in proportion to the length or height; "a slender pole".

Slender (a.) Small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: {slender}, {slim}].

Slender (a.) Moving and bending with ease [syn: {lissome}, {lissom}, {lithe}, {lithesome}, {slender}, {supple}, {svelte}, {sylphlike}].

Slent (n. & v.) See Slant.

Slep () imp. of Sleep. Slept.

Slepez (n.) A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat.

Slept () imp. & p. p. of Sleep.

Sleuth (n.) The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

Sleuthhound (n.) A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.

Slew (v. t.) See {Slue}.

Slew (n.) 【美】沼地 [See {Slough} a wet place.] A wet place; a river inlet.

The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews. -- T. Roosevelt.

Slew (imp.) of {Slay}.

Slay (v. t.) (v. t.)【書】殺死，殺害；【美】【俚】（過去式和過去分詞常作slayed）使大為高興，使禁不住大笑； (v. i.) 殺死；致死 [imp. {Slew}; p. p. {Slain}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slaying}.] To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

With this sword then will I slay you both. -- Chaucer.

I will slay the last of them with the sword. -- Amos ix. 1

I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. -- Shak.

Syn: To kill; murder; slaughter; butcher.

Slue (v. t.) (v. t.) 使（突然）轉向；使旋轉；(v. i.)（突然）轉向；旋轉；(n.) 轉向；扭轉；沼澤地 [imp. & p. p. {Slued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sluing}.] [Written also {slew}.] (Naut.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.

Slue (v. t.) In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round. [Colloq.]

They laughed, and slued themselves round. -- Dickens.

Slew (n.)【美】【口】許多 (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}].

Slew (v.) (v. t.) 使旋轉；使扭轉 (v. i.) 轉向；扭轉；側滑 Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: {swerve}, {sheer}, {curve}, {trend}, {veer}, {slue}, {slew}, {cut}].

Slew (v.) Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: {skid}, {slip}, {slue}, {slew}, {slide}].

Slewed (a.) Somewhat drunk.

Slewth (n.) Sloth; idleness.

Sley (v. t.) A weaver's reed.

Sley (v. t.) A guideway in a knitting machine.

Sley (v. t.) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed; -- a term used by weavers. See Sleave, and Sleid.

Slibber (a.) Slippery.

Slice (v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

Slice (v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.

Slice (v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.

Slice (v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.

Slice (v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.

Slice (v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

Slice (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.

Sliced (imp. & p. p.) of Slice.

Slicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slice.

Slice (v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

Slice (v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.

Slice (v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

Slicer (n.) One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.

Slich (n.) Alt. of Slick.

Slick (n.) See {Schlich}.

Slick (a.) 光滑的，熟練的，聰明的，平凡的，華而不實的，老套的，陳腐的 Sleek; smooth.

Slick (v. t.) To make sleek or smoth. "Slicked all with sweet oil." -- Chapman.

Slick (n.) [C]（漂有浮油的）光滑水面；浮油；修光工具，平滑器；刮刀 A wide paring chisel.

Slick (n.) A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.

Slick (a.) Made slick by e.g. ice or grease; "sidewalks slick with ice"; "roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil".

Slick (a.) Having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial" [syn: {glib}, {pat}, {slick}].

Slick (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}].

Slick (a.) Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy}, {foxy}, {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {tricky}, {wily}].

Slick (n.) A slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" [syn: {slickness}, {slick}, {slipperiness}, {slip}].

Slick (n.) A magazine printed on good quality paper [syn: {slick}, {slick magazine}, {glossy}].

Slick (n.) A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water.

Slick (n.) A trowel used to make a surface slick.

Slick (v.) Make slick or smooth [syn: {slick}, {sleek}].

Slick (v.) Give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair" [syn: {slick}, {slick down}, {sleek down}].

Slicken (a.) Sleek; smooth.

Slickens (n.) The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

Slickensides (n.) A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.

Slicker (n.) That which makes smooth or sleek.

Slicker (n.) A kind of burnisher for leather.

Slicker (n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.

Slicker (n.) A waterproof coat.

Slicking (n.) The act or process of smoothing.

Slicking (n.) Narrow veins of ore.

Slickness (n.) The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

Slid () imp. & p. p. of Slide.

Slidden () p. p. of Slide.

Slidder (v. t.) To slide with interruption.

Slidder (v. t.) Alt. of Sliddery.

Slidderly (v. t.) Alt. of Sliddery.

Sliddery (v. t.) Slippery.

Slid (imp.) of Slide.

Slidden (p. p.) of Slide.

Slid () of Slide.

Slidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slide.

Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

Slide (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.

They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. -- Waller.

Slide (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.

Beware thou slide not by it. -- Ecclus. xxviii. 26.

Slide (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

Ages shall slide away without perceiving. -- Dryden.

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. -- Pope.

Slide (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

Their foot shall slide in due time. -- Deut. xxxii. 35.

Slide (v. t.) (Mus.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. [Obs. or Colloq.]

With good hope let he sorrow slide. -- Chaucer.

With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. -- Sir P. Sidney.

Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.

Slide (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.