sleepy a Cp EDD ~ 3 'having a kind of white, dry rot' Co for sense 1; EDD 1 (3) ~ dust for comb in sense 2.
1 Of snow, soft, melting; ROTTEN.
1910 PRICHARD 95 For some time after this the weather alternated between frost and 'sleepy' snow.
2 Comb sleepy diver: American black scoter (Oidemia nigra americana) (1959 MCATEE 18).
1870 Can Naturalist v, 302 [The scoter] is called the 'sleepy diver'. . when adult, by the settlers. 1884 STEARNS 92 ... a bird called the dipper or buffle head, sometimes the butter ball and spirit duck, but which is here called 'sleepy diver,' from the slowness of its movements in the water. 1951 PETERS & BURLEIGH 124 ~ When noted from the land, they appear to sink into the water, but are really rising and falling with the waves.
sleepy dust: matter in corners of eye after sleeping.
P 41-68 A small child who was fighting a losing battle against sleep, was told the sandman was coming, sprinkling sleepy dust. Finally, when he succumbed to the sandman, his mother put him to alley coosh (bed). By the way, sleepy dust is that which you wash from your eyes every morning.
