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Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything. [Obs.] [Written also mournival.]

rkish sultan. [Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.] Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson.

prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.

Plump; fat; sleek. "Plumpy Bacchus." Shak.

Resembling the leek in color; greenish. [R.] "Porraceous vomiting." Wiseman.

A scallion; a leek or small onion. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.

Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc. "Sleek o'er your rugged looks." Shak.

Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.

A leek-green or brownish mineral occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also skorodite.]

The houseleek.

A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.

The houseleek.

Sleek; smooth. "Both slick and dainty." Chapman.

Sleek; smooth. [Prov. Eng.]

That which makes smooth or sleek. Specifically:

The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.