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sleave
[ sleev ]
verb (used with object)
- to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
noun
- anything matted or raveled.
- a filament of silk obtained by separating a thicker thread.
- a silk in the form of such filaments.
sleave
/ ²õ±ō¾±Ė±¹ /
noun
- a tangled thread
- a thin filament unravelled from a thicker thread
- poetic.anything matted or complicated
verb
- to disentangle (twisted thread, etc)
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- ³Ü²ŌĀ·²õ±ō±š²¹±¹±š»åī adjective
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of sleave1
Example Sentences
Itās one we make from childhood ā the sleeping infant, untroubled by conscience or the weight of the world, or in the fairytales that have people slumbering for a hundred years; itās there in Shakespeare when he writes, in Romeo and Juliet, āwhere care lodges, sleep will never lieā, and in that line in Macbeth: āinnocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravellād sleave of careā.
Shakespeare wisely recognized that sleep āknits up the ravellād sleave of careā and relieves lifeās physical and emotional pains.
Letās knit up the raveled sleave of care together today, shall we?
Shakespeare put it best: Sleepā¦that knits up the ravellād sleave of care.
"Youth and the Lady," 73;"To-day for Me," 103;"Sleep, that knits up the Ravell'd Sleave of Care," 114;"He Married a Wife," 126;"Designs," 141;"Iseult of Brittany," 142.Brockmann,
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