2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] Shak. The vexation of a sleeveless errand. Bp. Warburton.
SLEID
Sleid, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleided; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleiding.] Etym:
[See Sley.]
Defn: To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.
Shak.
SLEIGH
Sleigh, a.
Defn: Sly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SLEIGH
Sleigh, n. Etym: [Cf. D. & LG. slede, slee, Icel. sle. See Sled.]
Defn: A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; — in England commonly called a sledge. Sleigh bell, a small bell attached either to a horse when drawing a slegh, or to the sleigh itself; especially a globular bell with a loose ball which plays inside instead of a clapper.
SLEIGHING
Sleigh"ing, n.
1. The act of riding in a sleigh.
2. The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.