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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,264 words match “SLE”

SLEEPING a.
from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner (Com.), a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.
SLEEPISH a.
Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
SLEEPLESS a. 2 definitions
Having no sleep; wakeful.
SLEEPMARKEN n.
See 1st Hag, 4.
SLEEPWAKER n.
On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
SLEEPWAKING n.
The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
SLEEPWALKER n.
One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
SLEEPWALKING n.
Walking in one's sleep.
SLEEPY a. 4 definitions
Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden.
SLEEPYHEAD n. 2 definitions
A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.
SLEER n.
A slayer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SLEET n. 3 definitions
The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
SLEETCH n.
Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]
SLEETINESS n.
The state of being sleety.
SLEETY a.
Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.
SLEEVE n. 7 definitions
See Sleave, untwisted thread.
SLEEVED a.
Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.
SLEEVEFISH n.
A squid.
SLEEVEHAND n.
The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband. [Obs.] Shak.
SLEEVELESS a. 2 definitions
Having no sleeves.
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