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Slekit, ppl. adj. Also: sleik-, sleek-, slick- and -yt, -ed. [17th c. Eng. sleeked (1611); Sleke v.] Smoothed, having a smooth surface, etc. or glossy skin, etc. 1513 Doug. vi xii 15.
Vndre the slekit sey of marbill hew 1513 Doug. vii Prol. 38.
Montane toppis slekit [Sm. sleikit] with snaw 1513 Doug. vii xiii 79.
Hir slekyt schuldris war array With kyngly purpour 1513 Doug. xi i 94.
The gapand dedly wond … Amyd hys sneith and fair slekyt breist bane 1513 Doug. xii Prol. 186.
Tydy ky … All snog and slekit worth thir bestis skynnys Urquhart Rabelais iii viii.
By reason of their … curling, frisling, sleeked smoothness

b. fig. Of words, etc.: Smooth-seeming, plausible; specious, flattering. c1400 Troy-bk. ii 1838.
[He] Told a foule fenȝeit fortoune fals … With sleked wordis subtelly 1513 Doug. i xi 34 (see Quhite adj. 7 b). 1513 Doug. iv Prol. 191.
Quod the bysmeyr with the slekyt speche 1533 Boece 228.
Quhilk nowder expert in the fraude of the Romanis nor [etc.] … war seducit be the slekit adulacioune of Romanis 1581 Sat. P. xliv 158.
Thair sleikit tungis ar sua veil creischit indeid, Better gudgettis ar not of Scotland borne a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 533 (W).
With sleikit [L. sleikie, Wr. sleekie] sonats seiming sweit, … Thay wis thee to be wise 1586 Calderwood IV 526.
By his smooth tongue and sleiked lippes, he can slyde out a peice of Scripture 1606 Rollock's Thess. 343.
Alas many Judasses now. Sweete sleeked lippes, false malicious inuyfull harts(b) 1629 Boyd Last B. (1629) 952.
A slicked tongue and a slacke hand keepe other companie

c. Sleikit stane, = Sleke-stane n. b. a1570-86 Maitl. F. 392/38.
So feynȝeit and so fals with litill feir And quhair thai go thai beir the slekit stane Go follow thame quha will inconstance leir