Word Meanings - SLICKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sleek; smooth.

SMOOTHEN
To make smooth.
SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth.
SMOOTH
Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner.
SMOOTH-SPOKEN
Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
SMOOTHER
One who, or that which, smooths.
SMOOTHING
fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
SLEEKY
1. Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance. Thomson. 2. Fawning and deceitful; sly.
SLEEKLY
In a sleek manner; smoothly.
SMOOTH-TONGUED
Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
SMOOTHBORE
Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.
SLEEK
to Icel. slikr, and OE. sliken to glide, slide, G. schleichen, OHG. 1. Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. Chaucer. So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make. Dryden. 2. Not rough or harsh. Those rugged names
SLEEKNESS
The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.