The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve.
Drayton.
3. (Mach.) (a) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another
part, or to form a connection between two parts. (b) A long bushing or
thimble, as in the nave of a wheel. (c) A short piece of pipe used for
covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other
pipes.
Sleeve button, a detachable button to fasten the wristband or cuff. --
Sleeve links, two bars or buttons linked together, and used to fasten a
cuff or wristband. -- To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh privately or
unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious
demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps,
originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times. --
To pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.
Sleeve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeving.] To
furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Sleeved (?), a. Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in
composition; as, long- sleeved.
Sleeve"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A squid.
Sleeve"hand` (?), n. The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or
wristband. [Obs.] Shak.
Sleeve"less, a. [AS. sl&?;fleás.] 1. Having no sleeves.
2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless;
bootless; useless. [Obs.] Shak.
The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
Bp. Warburton.
Sleid (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleided; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleiding.] [See
Sley.] To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.
Shak.
Sleigh (?), a. Sly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sleigh (?), n. [Cf. D. & LG. slede, slee, Icel. sle&?;i. See Sled.] A
vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on
snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.
Sleigh bell, a small bell attached either to a horse when drawing a
slegh, or to the sleigh itself; especially a globular bell with a loose
ball which plays inside instead of a clapper.
Sleigh"ing, n. 1. The act of riding in a sleigh.