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Definition of Sleeked
1. sleek [v] - See also: sleek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeked
Literary usage of Sleeked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1857)
"They sleeked doors, they sleeked vetta, Close to the cheek and chin ; They sleeked
them a' but a wee wicket, ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Thus sleeked, they have a second couche of black, then dried, laid on the table
... and, after a light couche of water, sleeked over anew; and, ..."
3. Moths and Butterflies by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1901)
"All the hairs, long and short, are wet and sleeked down close to the body. ...
The tufts of the row below the spiracles are sleeked straight backward ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"That sleeked his tongue, and won so much on Eve So little here, nay lost. ...
A sheet of well sleeked marble paper did not cut any of its distinct colors ..."
5. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1854)
"Thus sleeked, they have a second couche of black, then dried, ... and after a
light couche of writer, sleeked over anew; and to raise the grain a third time ..."
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