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sleeked, ppl. a.|sliːkt|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Smoothed; having a glossy skin, etc.
1513Douglas æneid vi. xii. 15 All fischis..doith repair Ondir the slekit see of marbill hew. 1611Florio, Cartêlla, a kind of sleeked pasteboord. 1616B. Jonson Forest viii, Sleeked limmes, and finest blood. 1653Urquhart Rabelais iii. viii, By reason of their..curled, frisling, sleeked smoothness. 1785Burns To a Mouse i, Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie. 1818Keats Endym. i. 468 As a dove Trembling its closed eyes and sleeked wings About me. 1861C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret (1880) 199 Captain Merrifield's fine sleeked cows were licking each other.
2. Sc. Specious, flattering; artful; plausible.
c1400Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.) ii. 1838 Oetus..Told a foule fenȝeit fortoune fals..With sleked wordis subtelly. 1513Douglas æneid i. x. 27 Now him withaldis the Phenitiane Dido, And cuilȝeis him with slekit wordis sle. a1585Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 547 With sleikit sophismis seiming sweit. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xxvii, His sleekit speeches pass for true With ane and a'. 1823Galt R. Gilhaize I. xii. 131, I did nae think the sleekit sinner had art enough to play 't. 1895‘H. Haliburton’ Dunbar 92 Sleekit he was, an' carefu' to conceal.
Hence ˈsleekedness. rare—1.
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xiii. 109 If that the polish'd sleekedness thereof be darken'd by gross Breathings. |