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One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

Of or pertaining to the leeches.

An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.

A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.

town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

An adz; a hoe. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.

me by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.

hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. [Obs.] Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.

drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main. Pope.

subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep. De Watteville.

A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.

Supervention of sleep.

Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object he…

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.

a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.

Inclination; disposition. On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke.