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Word Meanings - SLEAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. Shak.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • FLOSSIFICATION
    A flowering; florification. Craig.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • SLEEPWALKER
    One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • TWISTING
    a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
  • CALLIOPE
    The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
  • SLEEP-AT-NOON
    A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • SLEEPLESS
    1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
  • ENTANGLE
    1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. 2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence,
  • THREAD
    wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
  • CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
  • THREADFISH
    The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
  • SLEEPWAKING
    The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
  • CALLOSE
    Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
  • SLEEPWAKER
    On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
  • CALLIDITY
    Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • PARABOLICALLY
    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • ACRONYCALLY
    In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
  • PHYSIOLOGICALLY
    In a physiological manner.
  • DIAMETRICALLY
    In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
  • ETHNICALLY
    In an ethnical manner.
  • ECCENTRICALLY
    In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
  • IAMBICALLY
    In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
  • ATMOSPHERICALLY
    In relation to the atmosphere.
  • CRITICALLY
    1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification

 

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