sleeper 
3. lu/iliip-liHildiiii/.H thick piece of timber placed 
longitudinally in a ship's hold, opposite the 
several scarfs of the timbers, for strengthening 
the bows and stem-frame ; a piece of long com- 
pass-timber fayed and bolted diagonally upon 
the transoms. 4. In glass-making, one of the 
large iron bars crossing the smaller ones, which 
hinder the passage of coals, but leave room for 
the ashes. 5. In wearing, the upper part of 
the heddle of a draw-loom, through which the 
threads pass. E. H. Knight. 
sleeper-shark (sle'per-shark), ii. A gcymnoid 
shark, especially of the genus Hiiimiiogus, as S. 
microi'i )iluiliin : a sleeper. 
sleepful(slep'ful), a. [< sleep + -I'"!.] Strongly 
inclined to sleep ; sleepy. [Bare.] 
sleepfulness (slep'ful-nes), . Strong inclina- 
tion to sleep. [Rare.] 
sleepily (sle'pi-li), adv. In a sleepy manner. 
(a) Drowsily, or as if not quite awake. (6) Languidly ; 
lazily. 
To go on safely and sleepily in the easy ways of ancient 
mistakings. Sir W. Raleigh. 
sleepiness (sle'pi-nes), w. Sleepy character or 
State, (a) Inclination to sleep; drowsiness. 
Watchfulness precedes too great sleepiness. Arbuthnot. 
When once sleepiness has commenced, it increases, be- 
cause, in proportion as the nervous centres fail in their 
discharges, the heart, losing part of its stimulus, begins 
to flag, and . . . the flagging of theheartleadstoagreater 
inertness of the nerve-centres, which re-acts as before. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 37. 
(b) Languor ; laziness, (c) Same as blettiny. 
sleeping (sle'piug), n. [< ME. slewing; verbal 
n. of sleep, v.~\ 1. The taking of rest in sleep ; 
sleep; the state of one who sleeps ; hence, lack 
of vigilance ; remissness. 
Full uaillant and wurthy were thys men tho, 
Which noght ne went to sompnolent sleping, 
But myghtyly and pusantly were waking. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5508. 
2. Inoperativeness ; dormant state or condi- 
tion; abeyance. 
You ever 
Have wish'd the sleeping of this business. 
Shale., Hen. VIII., ii. 4. 163. 
Sleeping Of process, in Scots law, the state of a process 
in the outer house of the Court of Session in which no 
judicial order or interlocutor has been pronounced for a 
year and a day. 
sleeping-bag (sle'ping-bag), n. A bag of skin 
or fur into which explorers in frozen regions 
creep, feet foremost, when preparing for sleep. 
The rocky floor was covered with cast-off clothes, and 
among them were huddled together the sleeping-bags in 
which the party had spent most of their time during the 
last few mouths. 
Schley and Soley, Rescue of Greely, p. 223. 
sleeping-car (sle'piug-kar), . A railway-car 
fitted with berths in which beds may be made 
up for passengers to sleep in. [U. S. and Can- 
ada.] 
sleeping-carriage (sle'ping-kar"aj), n. Same 
as sleepinq-car. [Eng.] 
sleeping-draught (sle'ping-draft), . A drink 
given to induce sleep. 
sleeping-dropsy (sle'ping-drop'si), . Same 
as negro lethargy (which see, under lethargy^-). 
sleepinglyt (sle'ping-li), adv. Sleepily. 
To Jog sleepingly through the world in a dumpish, mel- 
ancholly posture cannot properly be said to live. 
Rennet, tr. of Erasmus's Praise of Folly, p. 25. (Dairies.) 
sleeping-rpom (sle'ping-rom), n. A bedroom. 
sleeping-sickness (sle'ping-sik"nes), n. Same 
as negro lethargy (which see, under lethargy!). 
sleeping-table (sle'ping-ta"bl), . In mining, 
nearly the same as framing-table. [Little used 
in English except as a translation of the French 
table dortnante,] 
sleepisht (sle'pish), . [< sleep + -is/i 1 .] Dis- 
posed to sleep ; sleepy; lacking vigilance. 
Your sleepish and more than sleepish security. 
Ford. (Imp. Diet.) 
sleepless (slep'les), a. [< ME. sleples, < AS. 
*sleepleds (in deriv. slMvledst, sleeplessness) (= 
D. xlapeloos = MLG. slapelos = OHG. MHG. 
sldflos, sldfelos, G. sehlaflos) ; < sltep, sleep, + 
-leas. E. -less.] 1. Being without sleep; wake- 
ful. 
A crown, 
Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, 
Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights. 
Milton, P. E., ii. 460. 
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, 
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 94. 
2. Constantly watchful ; vigilant : as. the xli-rp- 
less eye of justice. 3. Restless; continually 
disturbed or agitated. 
Biscay's sleepless bay. Byron, Childe Harold, i. 14. 
5691 
I thought of C'hatterton, the marvellous boy, 
The .>Yc<7</<'s.y soul that perished in his pride. 
Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence, st. 7. 
sleeplessly (slep'les-li), adv. In a sleepless 
manner. 
sleeplessness (slep'les-nes), n. Lack or depri- 
vation of sleep ; inability to sleep ; morbid 
wakefulness, technically called insomnia. 
Sleeplfssn\e*s is both a symptom and an immediate cause 
of cerebral disorder. Huxley and Youtnans, Physiol. , 5O2, 
sleep-sickt (slep ' sik), . Excessively fond of 
sleep. [Bare.] 
Fond Epicure, thou rather slept'st thy self, 
When thou didst forge thee such a sleep-sick Elf 
For life's pure Fount. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 7. 
sleep-waker (slep'wa'ker), . A somnambu- 
list ; one who thinks or acts in a trance. [Re- 
cent.] 
What, then, are the main modifications of ordinary wak- 
ing consciousness, which spontaneous sleep-wakertt (to use 
a term of convenient vagueness) have been observed to 
present? Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, I. 285. 
sleep-waking (slep'wa"king), . The state of 
trance; somnambulism; the hypnotic state. 
[Recent. ] 
Did any one strike or hurt me in any part of the body 
when Anna M. was in sleep-waking, she immediately car- 
ried her hand to a corresponding part of her own person. 
Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, II. 20. 
sleep-walker (slep'wa"ker), n. A somnambu- 
list. 
sleep-walking (slep' wa"kiug), . Somnambu- 
lism. 
sleepwortt (slep'wert), n. A species of lettuce, 
Lactiica virosa, so called from its narcotic prop- 
erty. See lactucariitm. 
sleepy (sle'pi), a. [< ME. slept, < AS. "sliepig 
(= OHG. sldfag, MHG. sldfec; cf. D L staperig, 
G. schldferig, schldfrig), sleepy, < sleep, sleep: 
see sleep, .] If. Overcome with sleep; sleep- 
ing. 
Go ... smear 
The sleepy grooms with blood. 
Shak., Macbeth, ii. 2. 50. 
The heavy nodding Trees all languished, 
And ev'ry sleepy bough hung down its head. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 162. 
2. Inclined to sleep; drowsy. 
He laugh'd, and I, tho' sleepy, . . . 
. . . prick'd my ears. 
Tennyson, The Epic. 
3. Languid; dull; inactive; vsluggish. 
The mildness of your sleepy thoughts. 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. 128. 
Her house 
Bespake a sleepy hand of negligence. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, i. 
4f. Tending to induce sleep ; sleep-producing; 
soporific. 
His slepy verde in bond he [Mercury] bar uprighte. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 529. 
We will give you sleepy drinks. Shak., W. T., i. 1. 15. 
5. Decaying internally : said of fruit. See blet, 
v. i. Sleepy catch-fly. See cateA./j/. Sleepy duck, 
the ruddy duck,Erismatura rubida: also called sleepyhead, 
sleepy coot, sleepy brother. [Atlantic coast, IT. S.] 
sleepyhead (sle'pi-hed), . 1. An idle, lazy 
person. [Colloq.] 2. The sleepy duck. 
Sleepy-seeds (sle'pi-sedz), n. pi. The mucous 
secretion of the conjunctiva, or the sebaceous 
matter of the Meibomian follicles, dried in 
flakes or little masses at the edges or corners 
of the eyelids during sleep. [A familiar or nur- 
sery word.] 
sleert, A Middle English form of slayer. 
sleet 1 (slet), n. f< ME. sleet, slete, slet; (a) per- ' 
haps < AS.* slete, "slyte = OS. "slota = D. slote = 
MLG. sloten, LG. slote = MHG. sloz, G. schlosse, 
hail ; or (6) < Norw. sletta, sleet, < sletta, slap, 
fling (see slat 1 , slate*-) ; (c) not related to Icel. 
slydda, Dan. slud, sleet.] Hail or snow min- 
gled with rain, usually in fine particles, and 
frequently driven by the wind. A fall of sleet is 
due to one or more inversions in the normal decrease of 
temperature with increase of altitude, as, for example, 
when fine rain-drops falling from an air-current whose 
temperature is 32 F. or over freeze in traversing colder 
air-strata near the earth's surface. 
The bittre frostes with the sleet and reyn 
Destroyed hath the grene in every yerd. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 522. 
They . . . shot 
Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face 
Of their pursuers. Milton, P. R., iii. 324. 
February bleak 
Smites with his sleet the traveller s cheek. 
Bryant, Song Sparrow. 
sleet 1 (slet), i 1 . ('. [< sleet 1 , w.] To rain and snow 
or hiii I at the same time. 
sleeve 
sleet 2 (slet), H. [Origin obscure.] In r/un., that 
part of a mortar which passes from the cham- 
ber to the trunnions for strengthening the 
chamber. 
sleet-bush (slet'bush), H. A rutaceous shrub, 
Coleoiifiiia iillium, of the Cape of Good Hope. 
It is a handsome low evergreen with white 
flowers. 
sleetcht, See sleech. 
sleetiness (sle'ti-nes), . The state of being 
sleety. 
sleet-squash (slet'skwosh), . A wetting 
shower of sleet. [Scotch.] 
But, in the midst of all this misery, the Wellington Arms 
is by no means an uncomfortable howf in a sleet-squash. 
Noctes Ambrosianee, Feb., 1832. 
sleety (sle'ti), a. [<sleefl + -y l .~\ Consisting 
of sleet; characterized by sleet. 
The sleety storm returning still, 
The morning hoar, and evening chill. 
T. Warton, Odes, x. 
sleeve 1 (slev), . [< ME. sleeve, sieve, slefe (pi. 
slefes, sleven), < AS. slefe, slef, slyfe, slyf = MD. 
sieve, a sleeve (cf. MD. sloove, veil, skin, the 
turning up of a thing, D. sloof, an apron ; MHG. 
slouf, a garment, also a handle, MLG. slu, LG. 
slu, sluwe = MHG. sloufe, G. schlaiibe, sehlauf, 
a husk, shell); prob. lit. 'that into which the 
arm slips' (cf . slip 1 , a garment, slop 2 , a garment, 
and slipper?, 
a light shoe, 
from the same 
ult. source, and 
so named for the 
same reason), < 
AS. slupan, slip: 
seesZipX For the 
change of p to/, 
cf. shaft 3 , as re- 
lated to shape.'] 
1. That part of 
a garment which 
forms a covering 
for the arm: as, 
the sleeve of a 
coat or a gown. 
At different times 
during the middle 
ages extraordinarily 
long, pendent sleeves 
were in use, some- 
times reaching the 
ground, and at oth- 
er times a mere band 
or strip of Stuff, Sin- 
Sleeves, long and hanging, 12th century. 
(From Viollet-le-Duc's "Diet, du Mobilier 
franca is.") 
was generally called a hanging sleeve, although the_ actual 
sleeve was independent of it. Japanese ceremonial cos- 
gle or double, hung 
from the arm, and 
Sleeve worn as a favor at knight's left shoulder. 
(From ViolIet-le-Duc's "Diet, du Mobilier fra^ais.") 
tume also has sleeves of remarkable length and width, the 
arm being generally passed through a hole in the side of 
the sleeve. 
Than ech of us toke other by the sleue 
And forthwithall, as we should take our leue. 
Chaucer, Assembly of Ladies. 
Thy gown was of the grassie green, 
Thy sleeves of satten hanging by. 
Qreensleevea (Child's Ballads, IV. 242). 
The Gentlemen (Gentlemen must pardon me the abas- 
ing of the name), to bee distinguished from the rest, weare 
a iacket of blew cotton with wide sleeues. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 641. 
2. In mecli., a tube into which a rod or another 
tube is inserted. If small, it isoften called Athimble; 
when fixed and serving merely to strengthen the object 
which it incloses, it is called a reinforce. In most of its 
applications, however, the two parts have more or less 
relative circular or longitudinal, motion. E. H. Knight. 
Gigot sleeve. Same s& leg-of-mutton sleeve. Hippocra- 
tes's sleeve, a name among old chemists for a strainer 
made of flannel or of similar material in the form of a long 
bag. Lawn sleeves. See lawi&. Leg-of-mutton 
sleeve, a full and loose sleeve, tight at the armhole and 
wrist, as of a woman's dress: a fashion of the early part 
