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A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.

A slayer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]

The state of being sleety.

Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.

The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.

Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.

A squid.

The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband. [Obs.] Shak.

Having no sleeves.

Filled with air by beating, and baked; as, an omelette soufflé.

Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen. In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. Pope.

Deprived of the spleen.

Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson.

Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. -- Spleen"ish*ly, adv. -- Spleen"ish*ness, n.

Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. [Obs.] Chapman.

s Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.

Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak.

The chub mackerel. See under Chub.