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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.

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.

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

ress; deep melancholy; deep horror. "Deep despair." Milton. "Deep silence." Milton. "Deep sleep." Gen. ii. 21. "Deeper darkness." Hoole. "Their deep poverty." 2 Cor. viii. 2. An attitude of deep respect. Motley.

Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." Shak.

Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew. Dewy sleep ambrosial. Cowper.

ow is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

rincipal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, D…

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

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

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 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]

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.