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To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.]

Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.]

nal covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek. Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.

The commercial spirit or method. C. Kingsley.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.] A conceited chair to sleep in. Evelyn.

It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. J. F. Cooper.

The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.] C. Kingsley.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.

nds to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. Prior.

The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. [Obs.] Pope.

Lulled to sleep. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To bring into a narrow compass; to compress. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay.

Contagion; contagious matter. "Contagium of measles." Tyndall.

Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British subjects, property, and merchandise subject to capture, and excluding British ships from all parts of Europe under French dominion. The retaliatory measures of England were followed b…

the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.

ion to another or from one party or sect to another. No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott.