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A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. M. Arnold.

guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. Macaulay.

To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.

Destruction; dispersion. Bp. Horsley.

put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign. He soon dissembled a sleep. Tatler.

The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.

A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. [Written also doliman.]

Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke.…

Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.)

A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. Thackeray.

A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [Slang]

To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. J. Webster.

A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.] Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.

; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern.

To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.

The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.