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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±ô¾±Ë±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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ü²Ô·²õ±ô±ð²¹±¹±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sleave1
Example Sentences
It’s one we make from childhood – the sleeping infant, untroubled by conscience or the weight of the world, or in the fairytales that have people slumbering for a hundred years; it’s there in Shakespeare when he writes, in Romeo and Juliet, “where care lodges, sleep will never lieâ€, and in that line in Macbeth: “innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of careâ€.
Shakespeare wisely recognized that sleep “knits up the ravell’d sleave of care†and relieves life’s physical and emotional pains.
Let’s knit up the raveled sleave of care together today, shall we?
Shakespeare put it best: Sleep…that knits up the ravell’d 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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