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A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, etc.

e to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. Crabb.

The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand. He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band,short cuffs, and a peaked beard. Arbuthnot.

bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. "Cirling billows." Dryden. Then round her slender waist he curled. Dryden. Curling smokes from village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358…

A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

A small, light one-horse sleigh.

ttached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.

A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

A negro. [Sleng]

natured applications. Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. Tennyson.

A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vechicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

isposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud. Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit. Amos viii. 5. Friendly to man, f…

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.

Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. Blind, and thereby deceivable. Milton.