be from the same root.] 1. To throw with Slip (slip), v.t. 1. To convey secretly. a sling. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss. Judg. xx. 16. 2. To throw; to hurl. Slings a broken rock aloft in air.' Addison.-3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.-4. To move or swing by a rope which suspends the thing; to place in slings in order to hoist or lower, as boats, casks, ordnance, or any other weighty body. Sling (sling), v. i. To move with long, swing- Sling (sling), n. [Comp. L.G. slingen, G. Slinger (slinger), n. One who slings or uses Sling-stone (sling'stōn), n. A stone hurled The arrow cannot make him flee; sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. Job xli. 28. Slink (slingk), v.i. pret. & pp. slunk (pret. Nay, we will slink away in supper-time, There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed. Landor. 2. To miscarry; to cast the young one: said of a female beast. Slink (slingk), v.t. To cast prematurely: said of the female of a beast. Slink (slingk), a. 1. Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.-2. [Comp. D. slunken, gaunt, thin; G. schlank, slender.] Thin; slender; lean; starved and hungry. Sir W. Scott. Slink (slingk), n. 1. A sneaking fellow; a greedy starveling; a cheat.-2. A calf or other animal brought forth prematurely; the flesh of an animal prematurely brought forth; the veal of a calf killed immediately after being calved. [Provincial English and Scotch.] Slip (slip), v.i. pret. & pp. slipped; ppr. slipping. [A. Sax. slipan, to slip, to glide; D. slippen, Dan. slippe, Icel. sleppa, to slip, to slide, to glide away.] 1. To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide. They trim their feathers, which makes them oily and slippery, that the water may slip off them. Mortimer. 2. To slide; to fall down; not to tread If he should slip, he sees his grave gaping under him. Prior Thus one tradesman slips away, 6. To pass unexpectedly or imperceptibly; Thrice the flitting shadow slipp'd away Dryden. 7. To enter by oversight: with in or into. Some mistakes may have slipt into it; but others will be prevented. Pope. 8. To escape insensibly, especially from the memory; to be lost. Use the most proper methods to retain the ideas you have acquired, for the mind is ready to let many of them slip. Watts. -To let slip, to set free from the leash or noose, as a hound straining after a hare. 'Let slip the dogs of war.' Shak. He tried to slip a powder into her drink. Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound. Shak. My horse slipped his bridle and ran away. Swift. The branches also may be slipped and planted. To slip off, to take off noiselessly or If they did terrify the natives by displaying their Slip (slip), n. 1. The act of slipping. 'Slips I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips Shak 6. An escape; a secret or unexpected deser- The more shame for her goodyship, To give so near a friend the slip. Hudibras. 7. A long narrow piece; a strip; a streak; clouds. a portion of a work or newspaper not yet There are many slips and counterfeits; SLIPPER the consent of underwriters to the proposed policy. It is merely a jotting or short memorandum of the terms to which the underwriters subscribe their initials, with the sums for which they are willing to engage. It has no force as a contract of insurance. 19. In cricket, one of the fielders who stands behind the wicket on the off side, and whose duty it is to back up the wicket-keeper and take the latter's place at the wicket when he runs after the ball-Long slip, a fielder who stands at some distance behind slip to catch any balls which the latter misses.20. The difference between the speed of a propeller and that of the steam-ship, being due to the retreat of the resisting medium under the impact of the propeller. The speed of the vessel being deducted from the speed of the propeller gives the slip. A board sliding Slip-board (slip bord), n. in grooves. as tightly as may be required. This band is Slip-dock (slip'dok), n. A dock whose floor Slipped (slipt), a. In her. an epithet for a Slipper (slip'er), n. 1. One who or that which slips or lets slip; specifically, in coursing, the functionary who holds the couple of hounds in the leash, and lets both slip at the same instant on a given signal when the hare is started.-2. [A.Sax. slipper, slypesco, a slipper.] A loose light shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, generally for household wear; a slip-shoe.-3. A kind of apron for children, to be slipped over their other clothes to keep them clean. Called also a Slip or Pinafore.-4. A kind of SLIPPER iron slide or brake shoe acting as a drag on the wheel of a heavy wagon on descending an incline.-5. A plant of the genus Pedilanthus, so called from the involucres assuming the appearance of a slipper. Known also as Slipper-plant. Slippert (slip'ér), a. Slippery. Spenser. Slipper-bath (slip'er-bath), n. A bathingbox, made usually of tinned iron or zinc plates, shaped like a high shoe, to enable the bather to take a half-horizontal, halfvertical position. Slippered (slip'èrd), a. Wearing slippers. The lean and slipper'd pantaloon.' Shak. Slipperily (slip'ér-i-li), ade. In a slippery LARIA Slippery (slip'er-i), a. [From the older slipper, A. Sax. slipor, slippery. See SLIP.] 1. Allowing or causing anything to slip, slide, or move smoothly and rapidly on the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. The maiden dreamt That some one put this diamond in her hand; And that it was too slippery to be held. Tennyson. 2. Not affording firm footing or support. Hanging them in the slippery clouds. Shak. The slipp'ry tops of human state. Cowley. 3. Using cunning or artful devices to escape; liable or apt to slip away; hence, not to be trusted to; ready to use evasions or the like; as, a slippery person to deal with. The slipp'ry god will try to loose his hold. Dryden. 4. Liable to slip; not standing firm. Slippery standers. Shak. [Rare.]-5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain. The slippery state of kings.' Sir J. Denham. Oh, world, thy slippery turns! Shak. 6. Not certain in its effect. One sure trick is better than a hundred slippery ones. 7. Wanton; unchaste. 'My wife is slippery.' Shak Slippiness (slip'i-nes), n. Slipperiness. 'The slippiness of the way.' Sir W. Scott. [Provincial] Slippy (slip'i), a. (A. Sax. slipeg, slippery.] Slippery. [Old and provincial] Slip-rope (slip'rop), n. Naut. a rope used to trice the bight of the cable into the head, and also employed in casting off a vessel tili she is got in a tide-way, &c. Slipshod (slip'shod), a. 1. Wearing slippers; wearing shoes or slippers down at heel. The shivering urchin ... with slipshod heels' Couper. Hence-2. Appearing or moving like one in slippers; careless or slovenly in manners, actions, and the like; shuffling; as, a slipshod style of writing. Thy wit shall not go slipshod. Slipshoe (slip'shö), n. A slipper. Slip-skint (slip'skin), a. Slippery; evasive. Milton Shak. Slipslop (slip'slop), n. [A reduplication of slop 1 Bad liquor.-2. Feeble composi tion. Slip-slop (slip'slop), a. Feeble; poor; jejune. Slip-string (slip'string), n. One that has shaken off restraint; a prodigal. Called also Slip-thrift. Rakehells and slip-strings.' Cotgrave. [Rare.] Slipt (slipt), pret. & pp. of slip. Tennyson. Slip-thrift (slip'thrift), n. A spendthrift; a prodigal. Slish (slish), n. [A lighter form of slash.] A cross-cut. Slish and slash.' Shak. Slit (slit), v. t. pret. & pp. slit or slitted; ppr. alitting. [A. Sax. slitan, to tear, to rend; to break through; Icel slíta, Dan. slide, Sw. stita, to tear, to separate by force; G. schleissen, to slit, to split; akin slate, slice (which see).] 1. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods.-2. To cut or make a long 107 fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or tongue, or the nose. I'll slit the villain's nose that would have sent me to the gaol. Shak. 3. To cut in general; to divide by cutting; to sunder. Comes the blind Fury, with the abhorred shears, Slit (slit), n. [A. Sax. slite, Icel. slit, a rent or slit. See the verb.] 1. A long cut, or a narrow opening. A slit or oblong hole, which was narrower than the pupil of my eye. Newton. Where the tender rinds of trees disclose Their shooting gems, a swelling knot there grows; Just in that place a narrow slit we make. Dryden. 2. A cleft or crack in the breast of cattle.Slit planting, a method of planting, which is performed by making slits in the soil with a spade, so as to cross each other, and inserting the plant at the point where the slits cross. Slit-deal (slit' del), n. In carp. a 1-inch plank cut into two boards. Simmonds. Slither (sliTH'èr), v.i. To slide; to move smoothly; to glide. [Provincial.] Slithery (sliTH'er-i), a. Slippery; sliddery. [Provincial.] Slitter (slit'èr), n. One who or that which slits. Slitting -mill (slit'ing-mil), n. 1. A mill where iron bars or plates are slit into nail rods, &c.-2. A machine used by lapidaries for slitting or cutting gems, stones, &c., previous to grinding and polishing. It consists of a very thin sheet-iron disc, the edge of which is charged with diamond powder and lubricated with oil, mounted on a stand, and revolved by a treadle or otherwise. Slitting-roller (slit'ing-rōl-lér), n. One of a pair of coacting rollers having ribs which enter intervening spaces on the companion rollers, and cutting in the manner of shears, used in slitting-mills for metals, &c. Slive (sliv), v.. [Allied to slip; comp. G. schleifen, to slide.] To sneak; to skulk; to proceed in a sly way; to creep; to idle away time. [Local.] Slivet (sliv), v.t. [A. Sax. slifan, to cleave, to split; hence sliver.] To cleave; to split; to divide. Holland. Sliver (sliv'èr or sli'vér), v.t. [See SLIVE.] To cut or divide into long thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to break or tear off; as, to sliver wood. Slips of yew, Shak. Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse." Sliver (sliv'èr or sli'ver), n. 1. A long piece cut or rent off, or a piece cut or rent lengthwise.-2. A small branch. There, on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Shak. Sloam (slōm), n. In mining, a layer of earth or clay between coal strata. Sloat (slot), n. [A form of slat, a thin bar; L.G. slaate, a pole, a stem.] A narrow piece of timber which holds together larger pieces; as, the cross sloats in the frame forming the bottom of a cart. Slobber (slob'ér), v.i. [A form of slabber.] To drivel; to dote; to be weak or foolish; to slabber. Swift.-To slobber over work is to do it in a slovenly or half-finished manner. [Familiar.] Slobber (slob'êr), v. t. To slaver; to spill upon; to slabber. Slobber (slob'ér), n. Slaver; liquor spilled; slabber. Slobberer (slob'èr-ér), n. 1. One who slobbers.-2. A slovenly farmer; also, a jobbing tailor. Grose; Halliwell. [Provincial English.] Slobbery (slob'èr-i), a. Moist; muddy; sloppy. Slobbery weather.' Swift. But I will sell my dukedom To buy a slobbery and dirty farm In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak. Slock, Slocken (slok, slok'n), v.t. [A form of slake. Icel. slokna, to be extinguished. See SLAKE.] To quench; to allay; to slake. [Old English and Scotch.] Slocking-stone (slok'ing-ston), n. In mining, a stone of rich ore extracted, or professed to be extracted, from a certain mine, displayed to induce persons to take shares in it. SLOP Sloe (slo), n. [A. Sax. sla, sláhe, Sc. slae, D. and L.G. slee, G. schlehe, from L. G. slee, D. sleeuw, G. schleh, sour, astringent.] A Brit thickets, hedges, and on dry banks, and is used as stocks on which to engraft the plum and some other species. See PRUNUS. Slogan (slo'gan), n. [Contr. of Gael. sluaghghairm, an army cry.] The war-cry or gathering word or phrase of one of the old Highland clans; hence, the watchword used by soldiers in the field. Sound the fife and cry the slogan Let the pibroch shake the air. Aytoun. Slogardie,t n. Sloth; sluggishness. Chau cer. Slogger (slog ér), n. A second-class racing boat at Cambridge, corresponding to the torpid of Oxford. [University slang.] Slokan, Sloke (slo'kan, slök), n. A name given to species of edible sea-weed belonging to the genera Porphyra and Ulva. Called also Sloakan, Sloak. See LAVER. Sloken (slok'en), v.t. See SLOCK, SLOCKEN. Sloo (slo), n. A slough. [Old English and provincial American.] Sloom (slöm), n. [A. Sax. sluma, slumber; O.G. slumen, to sleep. Slumber is from A.Sax. sluma.] Slumber. Halliwell. [Obsolete or local.] Sloomy (slöm'i), a. Sluggish; slow. Halliwell. [Obsolete or local.] Sloop (slöp), n. [D. sloep, L.G. sluup, slupe, a sloop, from root of slip. Akin shallop (through the French).] A vessel with one mast, and often with nothing but fore-andaft sails, the main-sail being attached to a gaff above, to a boom below, and to the mast on its foremost edge. Some sloops have no gaff top-sail, but a square top-sail and topgallant-sail. A sloop is usually said to differ from a cutter by having a fixed instead of a running bowsprit; but the names seem to be used somewhat indiscriminately. - A sloop-of-war, in the British navy, is a vessel, of whatever rig, between a corvette and a gun-boat, and ordinarily constituting the command of a commander. Formerly sloopsof-war carried from ten to eighteen guns; but since the introduction of steam-ships into the navy the number of guns has ceased to be distinctive. Slop (slop), v. t. [Probably imitative of sound made. Comp. Prov. G. schloppen, to lap, to swallow; E. slobber, slabber. See the noun.] 1. To spill or cause to overflow, as a liquid.-2. To drink greedily and grossly. [Rare.]-3. To spill liquid upon, or to soil by letting a liquid fall upon. Slop (slop), n. [Comp. Icel. slabb, dirt from sleet and rain.] 1. Water carelessly thrown about, as on a table or floor; a puddle; a soiled spot. 2. Mean liquor; mean liquid food: generally in plural. The sick husband here wanted for neither slops nor doctors. Sir R. L'Estrange. SLOP 3. pl. The waste dirty water of a house. 4. In pottery, same as Slip. See under SLIP. Slop (slop), n. [A. Sax. slop, a frock or overgarment; Icel. sloppr, a wide outer dress, a gown; D. slobbe, a pair of slops or loose bagging trousers. Perhaps from root of slip; comp. also L. G. slap, G. schlaff, loose.] 1. A smock-frock.-2. Any kind of outer garment made of linen; a night-gown; a kind of cloak or mantle. [Obsolete or provincial English.] 3. pl. (a) A loose lower garment; a sort of wide breeches. From the waist downward all slops.' Shak.-(b) Ready-made clothing. (c) In the navy, the clothes and bedding of a sailor. Within certain limits government, acting through the ship's paymaster, supplies the men with slops at cost price. Slop (slop), v.i. To be spilled or overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it: often with over. Slop-basin, Slop-bowl (slop'ba'sn, slop'böl), n. A vessel or bowl for emptying the dregs from tea-cups or coffee-cups into at table. Slop-book (slop'buk), n. In the navy, a register of the slop clothing, soap, and tobacco issued to the men; also of the religious books supplied. Admiral Smyth. Slope (slop), n. [Perhaps from A. Sax. slopen, pp. of slúpan, to slip, to glide; comp. also Icel. slapa, to hang loosely.] 1. An oblique direction; obliquity; especially, a direction downward; as, this piece of timber has a slight slope in it.-2. A declivity or acclivity; any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. The buildings covered the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Specifically, (a) in civil engin. an inclined bank of earth on the sides of a cutting or an embankment. (b) In mining, the dip or inclination of a stratum or vein of ore. (c) In fort. the inclined surface of the interior, top, or exterior of a parapet or other portion of a work. Slope (slop), a. Inclined or inclining from a horizontal direction; forming an angle with the plane of the horizon. [Rare.] Murmuring waters fall Milton. Down the slope hills. Slope (slop), v.t. pret. & pp. sloped; ppr. sloping. 1. To form with a slope; to form to declivity or obliquity; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.-2. To bend down; to direct obliquely; to incline. Though palaces and pyramids do slope Their heads to their foundations. Shak -Slope arms (milit.), a command in manual exercise to carry the rifle obliquely on the shoulder.-To slope the standard (milit.), to dip or lower the standard, a form of salute. The general in command made the whole army defile past their guidon, and salute it with sloped standards. Lawrence. Slope (slop), v. i. 1. To take an oblique direction; to be declivous or inclined; to descend in a sloping or slanting direction. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion, sloping slowly to the west. Tennyson. 2. To run away; to decamp; to elope; to disappear suddenly. [Slang.] Slope (slop), adv. Obliquely; not perpendicularly. 'Bore him slope downward to the sun." Milton. Slope (slop), v. t. pret. & pp. sloped; ppr. sloping. To give the slip to; to defraud by running away; as, to slope a shop. [Vulgar.] Slopeness (slop'nes),n. Declivity; obliquity. 'A graceful pendence of slopeness.' Wotton. [Rare.] Slopewise (slop'wiz), adv. Obliquely. The Wear is a frith, reaching slopwise through the Ose. Rich, Carew. Sloping (sloping), a. Oblique; declivous; inclining or inclined from a horizontal or other right line. A sloping way.' Dryden. Slopingly (slop'ing-li), adv. In a sloping manner; obliquely; with a slope. Slop-pail (slop'pal), n. A pail or bucket for receiving slops, or for chamber use. Sloppiness (slop'i-nes),n. The state of being sloppy; wetness of the earth; muddiness. Sloppy (slop'i), a. [From slop.] Wet, so as to spatter easily; muddy; plashy. Slop-room (slop'röm), n. Naut. the place appointed to keep the slops in for the ship's company. Slopseller (slop'sel-ér), n. One who sells ready-made clothes. Slopshop (slop'shop), n. A shop where ready-made clothes (slops) are sold. 108 Slop-work (slop'werk), n. The manufacture of cheap ready-made clothing. Slopy (slop'i), a Sloping; inclined; as, slopy ground. [Rare.] Slosh (slosh), v.i. To flounder among slosh or soft mud. On we went, dripping and sloshing, and looking very like men that have been turned back by the Royal Humane Society as being thoroughlydrenched. Slosh (slosh), n. Same as Slush. [Provincial.] Kinglake. Sloshy (slosh'i), a. Same as Slushy, Sludgy. Slot (slot), n. [D. and L.G. slot, a lock; D. sluiten, to shut, to lock, to close; sluitgat, a mortise; Dan. slutte, to lock; G. schliessen, to lock. In meaning 3 it may be rather connected with slit.] 1. The fastening of a door; a bar; a bolt. [Obsolete or provincial.1-2. A piece of timber which connects or holds together larger pieces; a slat or sloat.-3. In mach. an elongated narrow depression or perforation; a rectangular recess or depression cut partially into the thickness of any piece of metal for the reception of another piece of similar form, as a key-seat in the eye of a wheel or pulley; an oblong hole or aperture formed throughout the entire thickness of a piece of metal, as for the reception of an adjusting bolt.4. A trap-door in the stage of a theatre. In this sense written also Slote. Slot (slot), v. t. pret. & pp. slotted; ppr. slotting. [See the above noun.] To shut with violence; to slam. Ray. [Provincial.] Slot (slot), n. [A form akin to O.E. slogth, a path; Icel. slóth, a track or trail, as in snow; Sc. sleuth, a track, whence sleuth-hound.j The track of a deer, as followed by the scent or by the mark of the foot. The huntsman by his slot or breaking earth perceives.' Marston. He leaves the noisome stench of his rude slot behind him. Milton. Slot (slot), n. [Sw. slutt, a slope, a declivity.] A hollow.-Slot of a hill, a hollow in a hill or between two ridges.-Slot of the breast, the pit of the stomach. [Scotch.] Slote (slot), n. A trap-door in the stage of a theatre. Written also Slot. Sloth (sloth or sloth), n. [Formerly slouthe, slewthe, A. Sax. slowth, from slaw, slow. Sloth, therefore, is short for slowth. See SLOW.] 1. Slowness; tardiness. 2. Disinclination to action or labour; sluggishness; habitual indolence; laziness; idleness. 'Hog in sloth, fox in stealth.' Shak. They change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears. Franklin. 3. The popular name of certain edentate mammals, of which only two species are known, viz. Bradypus tridactylus or ai, an inhabitant of South America, about the size of a common cat, of a gray colour, though frequently spotted with brown and white, Two-toed Sloth (Bradypus or Choloepus didactylus). especially when young; and Bradypus or Choloepus didactylus or unau, a native of the West Indies, about half the size of the former. These animals are so called from the slowness of their motions on the ground, which is the necessary consequence of their disproportioned structure, and particularly from the fact that the feet exhibit a conformation resembling that of clubfoot in man -a disposition of parts highly useful in climbing movements. They live on trees, and never remove from the one they are on until they have stripped it of every leaf. The sloths are exceedingly helpless when on the ground, and seem at home only when upon trees, resting or moving suspended be SLOVAK neath their branches, and they are sometimes observed to travel from tree to tree, and along branches, with considerable celerity. The female produces but a single young one at a birth, which she carries about with her until it is able to transfer its weight from its parent to the branches.-Sloth animalcule. See MACROBIOTIDAE. - Australian sloth, a name given to the koala (which see). -Sloth bear. See ASWAIL Sloth (sloth), v.i. To be idle. Gower. Slotht (sloth), a. Slothful; slow. God is... very sloth to revenge. Slothful (sloth'ful or sloth'ful), a. Inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. Latimer. Prov. xix. 15. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. Slot-hound (slot'hound), n. A hound that tracks animals by the slot; a blood-hound; a sleuth-hound. Misfortunes which track my footsteps like slot-hounds.' Sir W. Scott. See SLEUTH-HOUND. [Scotch.] Slottery+ (slot'èr-i), a. [Closely allied to slattern and to L.G. slodderig, loose, sloven; G. schlotterig, negligent; schlottern, to hang loosely. See SLATTERN, SLUT.] 1. Squalid; dirty; sluttish; untrimmed.-2 Foul; wet. Slotting (slot'ing), n. The operation of making slots. Slotting-machine (slot'ing-ma-shen), n. A species of self-acting tool or implement employed in the formation of slots in any piece of machinery. It is simply a planing machine, in which the tool is vertically reciprocated while the work is fed beneath it between cuts. Slouch (slouch), n. [Provincial also slotch, a softened form, corresponding to Icel slókr, a slouch, or dull inactive person; Sw. sloka, to droop. Comp. slug, sluggard.] 1. A drooping or depression of the head or of some other part of the body; a stoop; an ungainly, clownish gait. Our doctor has every quality which can make a man useful; but, alas! he hath a sort of slouch in his walk. Swift. 2. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. Begin thy carols, then, thou vaunting slouch; Be thine the oaken staff or mine the pouch. Gay. 3. A depression or hanging down, as of the brim of a hat. Slouch (slouch), v.i. To have a downcast clownish gait or manner. Slouch (slouch), v. t. To depress; to cause to hang down; as, to slouch the hat. Slouch-hat (slouch'hat), n. A hat with a hanging brim. Slouching (slouch'ing), p. and a. 1. Hanging down.-2. Walking heavily and awkwardly. The awkward, negligent, clumsy, and slouching manner of a booby. Chesterfield. Slough (slou), n. [A. Sax. slog, a slough, a hollow place; cog. G. schlauch, an abyss.] A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Sloughs that swallow common sense." Tennyson. So soon as I came beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of them in a slough of mire. Shak Slough (sluf), n. [Sc. sloch, a skin of a serpent or other animal, a husk of a fruit; G. schlauch, the skin of an animal stripped off and made into a vessel for holding liquids. Wedgwood thinks that it means properly something slipped off, that from which something has slipped, being allied to 0.H.G. slihhan, G. schleichen, to slip, slide, slink.] 1. The skin or cast skin of a serpent.2. In surg. the dead part which separates from the living in mortification, or the part that separates from a foul sore. Slough (sluf), v.i. To separate from the sound flesh; to come off, as the matter formed over a sore: a term in surgery.-To slough off, to separate from the living parts, as the dead part in mortification. Sloughy (slou'i), a. Full of sloughs; miry. 'Low grounds sloughy underneath.' Swift. Sloughy (sluf'i), a. Of the nature of or resembling a slough, or the dead matter which separates from flesh; foul; mortified; suppurated. Slovak (slo-vak), n. One of a Slavic race inhabiting North Hungary. In the ninth century they formed an independent king SLOVAN dom (Moravia), but were gradually subjugated by the Magyars, to whom even yet they bear no friendly feeling. Slovan (slo'van), n. In mining, a gallery in a mine; a day level: especially applied to damp places. Weale. Sloven (sluv'en), n. [Some of the declensional forms of Icel. sljór, slow, come very close to this word, such as sljóvan, sljóvum; comp also LG. sluf, D. slof, careless, negligent; D. slof, an old slipper, sloffen, to trail one's feet along.] A man careless of his dress or negligent of cleanliness; a man habitually negligent of neatness and order; a slow, lazy fellow. Slut is the corresponding feminine term. The negligent sloven Goldsmith. Had shut out the pasty in shutting his oven. Slovenliness (sluv'en-li-nes), n. The state or quality of being slovenly; as, (a) negligence of dress; habitual want of cleanliness. (b) Neglect of order and neatness; negligence or carelessness generally. 'Slovenliness in God's service.' Bp. Hall. Slovenly (sluv'en-li),a. 1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of dress or neatness; lazy; negligent: of persons; as, a slovenly man. Æsop at last found out a slovenly lazy fellow lolling at his ease as if he had nothing to do. L'Estrange. 2. Wanting neatness or tidiness; loose and careless: of things; as, a slovenly dress. His (Wicliffe's) style is everywhere coarse and slovenly. Craik. Slovenly (sluv'en-li), adv. In a slovenly manner; negligently; carelessly. 'As I hang my clothes on somewhat slovenly.' Pope. Slovenry (sluv'en-ri), n. Negligence of order or neatness; dirtiness. Shak. Slow (slo), a. [A. Sax. slaw, slow, lazy; Dan. slor, Sw. slö, Icel. sljór, blunt, dull, slow; O.H.G. léo, slewo, slow; allied to Goth. slavan, to be still or silent. Sloven is probably of same root.] 1. Moving a small distance in a long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; as, a slow stream; a slow motion; a slow pace. 'Drowsy, slow, and flagging wings.' Shak. Me thou think'st not slow, In Eden. I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. Ex. iv. 10. 4. Inactive; tardy; sluggish; dilatory. The Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe. Dryden. 5. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation. The Lord is merciful, slow to anger. Common Prayer. He that is slow to wrath, is of great understanding. Prov. xiv. 29. 6. Behind in time; indicating a time later than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.-7. Dull; heavy; dead. Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow 1 Shak. 8. Exciting contempt on account of dulness or want of spirit; not lively; stupid: used of persons or things; as, the entertainment was very slow. The men whom he had despised as slow.' Farrar. [Colloq.]-Slow coach, one who is slow in movement; one who is deficient in quickness or smartness; a dawdle. Our present girl is a very slow coach, but we hope same day to sport a buttons. Dean Ramsay. SYN. Dilatory, late, delaying, lingering, tardy, sluggish, dull, inactive. Slow (slo), adv. Slowly. [Poetical or colloq.] How low this old moon wanes! Slow (slo), v. t. 1. To delay; to retard. Shak. I would I knew not why it should be slow'd. Shak. 2. To slacken in speed; as, to slow a locomotive or steamer. Slow (slo), v.i. To slacken in speed; as, the locomotive began to slow. Slowbackt (slo'bak), n. A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. The slowbacks and lazie bones.' Dr. Favour. Slow-gaited (slo'gät-ed), a. Slow in gait; moving slowly. Shak. Slow-hound (slo'hound), n. A sleuthhound. 109 Slow-lemur (slo'le-mèr), n. A species of lemur, the Lemur or Nycticebus tardigradus, and Loris stenops of Illiger. It is an animal of small size, scarcely so large as a Slow-lemur (L. or Nycticebus tardigradus) cat, and has been so named from the slowness of its gait. It inhabits the East Indies, is nocturnal and arboreal in its habits, and during the day sleeps clinging to a branch. During night it prowls about in search of prey, which consists of insects and occasionally of small birds and quadrupeds. Also called the Sloth of Bengal and Slowpaced Lemur. Slowly (slo'li), adv. In a slow manner: (a) with moderate motion; not rapidly; not with velocity or celerity; as, to walk slowly. (b) Not soon; not in a little time; not with hasty advance; gradually; tardily; as, the building proceeds slowly; a country that rises slowly into importance. (c) Not hastily; not rashly; not with precipitation; as, he determines slowly. Slow-match (slo'mach), n. A match, consisting of some combustible, as cotton, hemp, tar, and the like, formed into a strand or rope and steeped in a solution of saltpetre. Such a match burns slowly and steadily, and is used for igniting a blast of gunpowder and other purposes where the operator requires time to retire to a place of safety. Slowness (slo'nes), n. State or quality of being slow: (a) moderate motion; want of speed or velocity. Swiftness and slowness are relative ideas. Watts. (b) Tardy advance; moderate progression; as, the slowness of an operation; slowness of growth or improvement. Tyrants use what art they can to increase the slowness of death. Hooker. (c) Want of readiness or promptness; dul ness. Christ would not heal their infirmities because of the hardness and slowness of their hearts. Bentley. (d) Deliberation; coolness; caution in deciding. (e) Dilatoriness; tardiness; sluggish ness. Slow-paced (slo'past), a. Having a slow SLUGGISH Slubber (slub'èr), v. t. To move or act in a slovenly, hurried manner. Milton. [Rare.] Slubberdegullion (slub'èr-de-gul-i-on), n. [Slubber, and Prov. E. gullion, E. cullion, a low mean wretch.] A dirty mean wretch. 'Base slubberdegullion.' Hudibras. [Low.] Slubberingly (slub'ér-ing-li), adv. slovenly or a hurried and imperfect manner. [Rare.] In a Slubbing-billy, Slubbing-machine (slub'ing-bil-i, slub'ing-ma-shen), n. A machine used in spinning factories for drawing out the rolls of wool and slightly twisting them. See SLUB, v.t. Slud (slud), n. [Abbrev. from sludge.] In mining, a term given to the water and mud mixed together which runs off in washing some minerals. Weale. Sludge (sluj), n. [A form of slutch, slich, sleech, softened forms corresponding to L.G. slick, D. slik, slijk, dirt, mire, allied to E. sleek. The double forms sludge, slutch are paralleled by grudge, grutch; smudge, smutch.] 1. Mud; mire; soft mud. A draggled mawkin, thou, That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge. Tennyson. 2. Small floating pieces of ice or snow. Kane. Sludge-door, Sludge-hole (sluj'dor, sluj'hol), n. A closed opening in a steam-boiler by which the matter deposited at the bottom can be taken out. Sludger (sluj'èr), n. An iron instrument for boring in sludge or quicksand. Sludgy (sluj'i), a. Miry; slushy. Sluds (sludz), n. pl. In mining, half-roasted ore. Slue (slu), v. t. pret. & pp. slued; ppr. sluing. [Perhaps Icel. snúa, to turn, to twist, with change of n to l] 1. Naut. to turn round, as a mast or boom about its axis, without removing it from its place.-2. To turn or twist about: often followed by round and used reflexively. Written also Slew. They laughed and slued themselves round. Dickens. Slue (slu), v.i. To turn about; to turn or swing round: often followed by round. Slue-rope (slu'rōp), n. Naut. a rope applied for turning a spar or other object in a required direction. Slug (slug), n. [Akin to slack or slouch. It seems to have been originally an adjective or a verb: O.E. slogge, to linger or fall behind, slugge, slow, sluggish. As the name of an animal it is represented by D. slak, slek, a slug or snail.] 1. A slow, heavy, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Shak.-2. A hinderance; obstruction. Bacon.-3. The popular name of the molluscs or snails of the family Limacidæ, consisting of shell-less snails very injurious to the agriculturist and horticulturist. Several species inhabit Britain, all of which subsist on leaves, roots, and vegetables. The most common is the Limax agrestis, or common slug, of which there are several varieties, which devour the young shoots of turnips, wheat, and indeed all kinds of grain and vegetables, frequently to a ruinous extent. See SEA-SLUG. pace or motion; not swift; as, a slow-paced Slug (slug), n. [Probably from the root of horse. -Slow-paced lemur. See SLOW-LE Slub (slub), n. A roll of wool drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. Slub (slub). v.t. pret. & pp. slubbed; ppr. slubbing. To draw out and slightly twist, as wool; to form into slubs. Slubber (slub'er). n. 1. One who slubs or who manages a slubbing-machine. - 2. A slubbing-machine. Slubber (slub'ér), v.t. [A form of slabber, slobber.] 1. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly; to obscure. There is no art that hath been more.. slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton. 2..To sully; to soil. You must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and Shak. boisterous expedition. slay, Prov. E. slog, to strike heavily.] A cylindrical, cubical, or irregularly shaped Slugt (slug), v.i. To play the sluggard; to piece of metal used for the charge of a gun. be lazy; to be dull or inert. Another sleeps and slugs both night and day. Slug + (slug), v.t. 1. To make sluggish. Mil ton.--2. To retard; to hinder. Bacon. Slug (slug), v.t. To load with a slug or Slugabed (slug'a-bed), n. slugs, as a gun. One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. Shak. Sluggard (slug'ard), n. [O.E. slugge, slow, lazy, and the suffix -ard.] A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise. Prov. vi. 6. Sluggard (slug'ärd),a. Sluggish; lazy. Shak. Sluggardize (slug'árd-iz), v. t. To make lazy. 'Dully sluggardized at home.' Shak. [Rare.] Sluggardy (slugʻard-i), n. The state of a sluggard. Gower. Sluggish (slug'ish), a. [From slug.] 1. Habitually idle and lazy; indolent; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. -2 Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish river or stream.-3. Inert; inactive; having no power to move itself. Matter being sluggish and inactive hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. 4. Dull; tame; stupid. 'So sluggish a conceit.' Milton.-Inert, Inactive, Sluggish. See un SLUGGISHLY der INERT.-SYN. Idle, lazy, slothful, indolent, dronish, slow, dull, drowsy, inactive, inert. Sluggishly (slug'ish-li), adv. In a sluggish manner; lazily; slothfully; drowsily; idly; slowly. Milton. Sluggishness (slug'ish-nes), n. State or quality of being sluggish: (a) natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dulness applied to persons. (b) Inertness; want of power to move: applied to inanimate matter. (c) Slowness; as, the sluggishness of a stream. Sluggy † (slug'i), a. Sluggish. Slugs (slugz), n. pl. In mining, half-roasted ore. Written also Sluds. Slug-snail (slug'snāl), n. A kind of snail; a slug. Sluice (slus), n. [D. sluys, sluis, Dan. sluse, G. schleuse, from O. Fr. escluse, Fr. écluse; L.L. exclusa, from L. excludo, exclusum, to shut out, to exclude-ex, out, and claudo, to shut. Probably directly from the Dutch.] 1. A contrivance used for the purpose of closing or of regulating the passage of a considerable body of water from one level to another; a water-way provided with a gate or other contrivance by which the flow of water is controlled; a flood-gate. Sluices are extensively used in hydraulic works, and exhibit great variety in their construction, according to the purposes which they are intended to serve. They regulate the passage of water into and out of canal locks, and are much used in the hydraulic arrangements connected with irrigation works, &c. In mill-streams sluices serve to keep back the water when the mill is at rest and to regulate the supply when the mill is going. 2. In steam-engines, the injection-valve by which the water of condensation is introduced into the condenser.-3. A tubulure or pipe through which water is directed at will. E. H. Knight.-4. The stream of water issuing through a flood-gate.-5. Any vent for He dried his face and neck which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey. 3. To scour out or cleanse by means of sluices; as, to sluice a harbour.-4. To emit as by a sluice; to let gush out. [Rare.] Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood.' Shak. Sluice-gate (slūs’gāt), n. The gate of a sluice; a water-gate; a flood-gate. Sluice-way (slūs'wa), n. An artificial passage or channel into which water is let by a sluice. Sluicy (slüs'i), a. Falling in streams, as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden Slum (slum), n. [Comp. slump, boggy ground.] A low, dirty, back street of a city, especially such a street inhabited by a poor criminal population; a low neighbourhood; as, the slums of Whitechapel and Westminster. Close under the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed labyrinths of lanes and courts and alleys and slums. Cardinal Wiseman. Slumber (slum'bér), v. i. [A. Sax. slumerian, from sluma, slumber; Dan. slumre, D. sluimeren, G. schlummern, to sleep or slumber. As to insertion of b, comp. number, humble.] 1. To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4. 2. To sleep. Slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style. If Sleep and Death be truly one, In some long trance should slumber on. Tennyson. 3. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. Young. Pent Greek patriotism slumbered for centuries till it blazed out grandly in the Liberation War of 1821-5. Prof. Blackie. 110 Slumber (slum'ber), v.t. 1. To lay to sleep. To slumber his conscience.' Sir H. Wotton. 2. To stun; to stupefy. [In both uses rare or obsolete.] Then he took up the slumber'd senseless corse. Spenser. Slumber (slum'běr), n. 1. Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carelessness it shall settle into slumber, and from slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep. South. 2. Sleep; repose. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.' Dryden. Slumberer (slum'bêr-ér), n. One that slumbers; a sleeper. Slumbering (slum'bėr-ing), n. State of sleep or repose. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed. Job xxxiii. 15. Slumberingly (slum'bèr-ing-li), adv. In a slumbering manner. Slumberless (slum ber-les), a. Without slumber; sleepless. My slumberless head.' Shelley. Slumberous (slum ber-us), a. Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. 'While pensive in the slumberous shade.' Pope. The slumberous plashing of the water.' W. Black. Written also Slumbrous. Slumbery (slum'bér-i), a. Slumberous; taking place in sleep; sleeping. This slumbery agitation. Shak. Slumbrous (slum'brus), a. berous. Same as Slum Soon was he quieted to slumbrous rest. Keats Slump (slump), v.i. [Perhaps of imitative origin; but comp. Dan. slumpe, to stumble or light upon, slump, chance, hazard.] To fall or sink suddenly when walking on a surface, as on ice or frozen ground, not strong enough to bear the person; to walk with sinking feet; to sink, as in snow or mud. That the man may slump through where the boy would have skimmed the surface in safety.' J. R. Lowell. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which Barrow. unawares they may slump. Here (on the snow) is the dainty foot-print of a cat; here a dog has looked in on you like an amateur watchman to see if all is right, slumping clumsily about in the mealy treachery. F. R. Lowell. Slump (slump), n. 1. A boggy place; soft swampy ground; a marsh; a swamp. [Scotch and provincial English.]--2. The noise made by anything falling into a hole or slump. [Scotch.] Slump (slump), n. [Dan. slump, a lot, a number of things indiscriminately; Sw. slumpa, to buy things in block; D. slomp, a mass, a heap.] The gross amount; as, to take things in the slump. Slump (slump), v.t. To throw together into a single lot or mass; as, to slump the work or charges. Sir W. Hamilton. Marshy; swampy; [Provincial Eng The different groups... are exclusively slumped together under that sense. Slumpy (slump'i), a. easily broken through. lish and Scotch.] Slung (slung), pret. and pp. of sling. Slung-shot (slung'shot), n. A dangerous weapon, used for striking by rowdies in America and elsewhere, consisting of a metal ball slung to a short strap or chain. Slunk (slungk), pret. and pp. of slink. Slur (sler), v.t. pret. & pp. slurred; ppr. slurring. (Prov. E. slur, thin mud, Icel. stor, filth, the offal of fish; L.G. slurren, to trail· the feet, D. sloren, sleuren, to drag along the ground, to do negligently or carelessly.] 1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to pollute; to tarnish. They impudently slur the gospel in making it no better than a romantic legend. Cudworth. 2. To disparage by insinuation or innuendo; to depreciate; to calumniate; to traduce; to asperse; to speak slightingly of. And how men slur him, saying all his force 3. To pass lightly over; to conceal; to render obscure. With periods, points, and tropes he slurs his crimes. Dryden. 4. To cheat, originally by slipping or sliding a die in a particular way: an old gambling term; hence, to trick; to cheat in general. To slur men of what they fought for.' Hudibras.-5. To pronounce in an indistinct or sliding manner.-6. In music, to sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to run notes into each other.-7. In printing, to blur or double, as an impression from type; to macule. SLY Slur (slér), n. 1. A mark or stain; slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma. No one can rely upon such an one, either with safety to his affairs or without a slur to his reputa tion. South. 2. A trick; an imposition. Some fing'ring trick or slur.' S. Butler.-3. In music, the smooth blending of two or more notes not on the same degree; also, a curved mark () connecting several notes of different degree, indicating that they are to be played or sung in a smooth, gliding manner. Slurred (slérd), a. In music, marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur. Slurry (slur'i), v.t. [From slur.] To dirty; to smear. [Provincial.] Slush (slush), n. [A form of sludge ] 1. Sludge or watery mire; soft mud; slosh. We'll soak up all the slush and soil of life 2. Snow in a state of liquefaction; wet, halfmelted snow.-3. A mixture of grease and other materials for lubrication. - 4. The refuse fat or grease, especially of salt meat, skimmed off in cooking, particularly in ships. 5. A mixture of white-lead and lime with which the bright parts of machinery are Slush (slush), v.t. 1. Naut. to grease with covered to prevent them rusting. slush, as a mast.-2. To lave roughly; as, to slush a floor with water. [Familiar.-3. To cover with a mixture of white-lead and lime, as the bright parts of machinery. Slush-bucket (slush'buk-et), n. Naut. a bucket kept in the tops to grease the masts, sheets, &c., to make all run smoothly. Slushy (slush'i), a. Consisting of soft mud, or of snow and water; resembling slush. Slut (slut), n. [Dan. slutte, slatte, a slut, a slattern; D. slodde, a slut, a sloven; Prov. G. schlutte, a slovenly woman; perhaps lit. a tattered woman, D. slet, a rag, Dan. slat, loose, flabby. See SLATTER.] 1. A woman who is negligent of cleanliness, and who suffers her person, clothes, furniture, &c, to be dirty or in disorder: the correlative of sloven.-2. A name of slight contempt for a woman. Hold up you sluts Your aprons mountant; you're not oathable, Shak Although I know you'll swear. 3. A female dog; a bitch. [United States] 4. A servant girl; a drudge. Our little Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others. Pepys Slutch (sluch), n. Sludge; mire; slush. [Provincial English.] Slutchy (sluch'i), a. Miry; slushy. [Provin cial English.] Sluth-hound (sluth'hound), n. Same as Sleuth-hound. Sluttery (slut'èr-i), n. The character and practices of a slut; neglect of cleanliness and order; dirtiness of clothes, rooms, furniture, or provisions. Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery. Shak. Sluttish (slut'ish), a. 1. Like a slut or what is characteristic of a slut; not neat or cleanly; dirty; devoid of tidiness or neatness; as, a sluttish woman; a sluttish dress.-2. Belonging to a woman of loose behaviour; meretricious. [Rare.] Sluttishly (slut'ish-li), adv. In a sluttish manner; negligently; distily. Sluttishness (slut'ish-nes), n. The qualities or practice of a slut; negligence or dirtiness of dress, furniture, and in domestic affairs generally. Sly (sli), a. [O.E. slye, slie, slee; Icel. slagr, sly, cunning; L.G. slou, Dan. slu, G. schlau, sly. Hence sleight.] 1. Meanly artful; insidious; crafty; cunning; proceeding by underhand ways: applied to persons or things; as, a sly man or boy; a sly trick. Sly wiles and subtile craftiness. Spenser. • Šilken, sly, insinuating Jacks' Shak.-2. Wily; cautious; shrewd: in a good sense. Whom graver age. And long experience hath made wise and sly. Fairfax. 3. Using good-humoured and innocent wiles or stratagems; arch; knowing; as, a sly remark. The captain (who had heard all about it from his wife) was wondrous sly, I promise you, inquiring every time we met at table, as if in forgetfulness, whether she expected anybody to meet her at St. Dickens. Louis. 4. Thin; fine; slight; slender. 'Lids devised of substance sly.' Spenser. — On the |