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▪ I. sleave, n.|sliːv|
[See next and sleave-silk.]
†1. A slender filament of silk obtained by separating a thicker thread; silk in the form of such filaments; floss-silk. Obs.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 955 Those slender sleaves (On ovall clews) of soft, smooth, Silken flakes. 1611Cotgr., Cadarce pour faire capiton, the tow, or coursest part of silke, whereof sleaue is made. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxiii. 318 Fair Benefield.., Which bears a grass as soft as is the dainty sleave. 1635[Glapthorne] Lady Mother i. i, Her faire haire; no silken sleave Can be so soft the gentle worm does weave.
2. transf. and fig. (In modern use only as an echo of the Shakespearian passage.)
1605Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 37 Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care. 1868G. Macdonald Seaboard Parish III. ix. 190 He..began to smooth out the wonderful sleave of dusky gold. 1876M. E. Braddon Dead Men's Shoes i, She has not seen the fair and shining fabric in life's loom, but the ragged sleave thereof. 1904J. C. Collins Stud. Shaks. 317 To smoothe the tangled sleave of Shakespearean expression.
▪ II. sleave, v. Now dial.|sliːv|
Forms: 6 sleyve, sleue, 7 sleeue, 9 sleeve; 7– sleave.
[OE. slǽfan (recorded in the comb. toslǽfan, Napier Holy Rood-tree 32/2), f. sláf-, pret. stem of slífan slive v.
It is possible that the pa. tense slefte (cf. sleft ppl. a.) should be read in the Gest of Robyn Hode iii. st. 146, where the early editions have sleste, slet, and cleft.]
1. trans. To divide (silk) by separation into filaments. Also transf. and absol.
a1628F. Grevil Cœlica i. (1633) 24 When light doth beginne These to retaile, and subdiuide, or sleeues Into more minutes. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 362 The more subtle, (and more hard to Sleave a two) Silken thred, of self-seeking. 1654R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 71 They use to sleave and spin to what finesse they please. 1890Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. Introd. Poet. Wks. 1890 II. 165 To sleeve silk means to divide or ravel out a thread of silk with the point of a needle till it becomes floss.
2. dial. To cleave, split, rend, tear apart.
1828–in dialect glossaries (Yks., Chesh., Heref.).
Hence sleaved ppl. a. (also 7 sleyd), in sleaved silk (see sense 1).
1577–86Holinshed Chron. III. 835 Eight wildmen all apparelled in greene mosse, made with sleued silke. 1592in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. IV. 103 Sleyved Silk, the lb. 1623Shakspere's Tr. & Cr. v. i. 35 (fol.), Thou idle, immateriall skiene of Sleyd silke. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Sleaved, as Sleaved Silk, i.e. such as is wrought fit for Use. |