slab
-sided
-having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.

slabber
-to let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.
-to wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle.
-to spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking.
-spittle; saliva; slaver.
-a saw for cutting slabs from logs.
-a slabbing machine.

slabbered
-of slabber

slabberer
-one who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.

slabbering
-of slabber

slabbery
-like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

slabbiness
-quality of being slabby.

slabbing
-adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.

slabby
-thick; viscous.
-sloppy; slimy; miry. see sloppy.

slack
-small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
-a valley, or small, shallow dell.
-lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.
-weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.
-remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.
-not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack.
-slackly; as, slack dried hops.
-the part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.
-alt. of slacken
-alt. of slacken

slacked
-of slacken

slacken
-to become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
-to be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
-to lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
-to abate; to become less violent.
-to lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
-to languish; to fail; to flag.
-to end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
-to render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
-to neglect; to be remiss in.
-to deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
-to cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
-to cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
-a spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

slackened
-of slacken

slackening
-of slacken

slacking
-of slacken

slackly
-in a slack manner.

slackness
-the quality or state of being slack.

slade
-a little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.
-the sole of a plow.

slag
-the dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.
-the scoria of a volcano.

slaggy
-of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.

slaie
-a weaver's reed; a sley.

slain
-of slay

slake
-to allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
-to mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.
-to go out; to become extinct.
-to abate; to become less decided.
-to slacken; to become relaxed.
-to become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.

slaked
-of slake

slakeless
-not capable of being slaked.

slakin
-slacken.

slaking
-of slake

slam
-to shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
-to put in or on some place with force and loud noise;
-- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.
-to strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.
-to strike down; to slaughter.
-to defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
-to come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.
-the act of one who, or that which, slams.
-the shock and noise produced in slamming.
-winning all the tricks of a deal.
-the refuse of alum works.

slam
-bang
-with great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.

slamkin
-alt. of slammerkin

slammed
-of slam

slammerkin
-a slut; a slatternly woman.

slamming
-of slam

slander
-a false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another.
-disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.
-formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. see the note under defamation.
-to defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
-to bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.

slandered
-of slander

slanderer
-one who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.

slandering
-of slander

slanderous
-given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.
-embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports.

slang
-imp. of sling. slung.
-any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
-a fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
-low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
-to address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
-of sling

slang
-whanger
-one who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan.

slanged
-of slang

slanginess
-quality of being slangy.

slanging
-of slang

slangous
-slangy.

slangy
-of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.

slank
-imp. & p. p. of slink.
-of slink

slant
-to be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
-to turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
-a slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
-an oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
-inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.

slanted
-of slant

slanting
-of slant
-oblique; sloping.

slantly
-in an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

slantwise
-alt. of slantly

slap
-a blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.
-to strike with the open hand, or with something broad.
-with a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.

slapdash
-in a bold, careless manner; at random.
-with a slap; all at once; slap.
-to apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall.

slape
-slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.

slapeface
-a soft
-spoken, crafty hypocrite.

slapjack
-a flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.

slapped
-of slap

slapper
-one who, or that which, slaps.
-anything monstrous; a whopper.
-alt. of slapping

slapping
-of slap
-very large; monstrous; big.

slash
-to cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
-to lash; to ply the whip to.
-to crack or snap, as a whip.
-to strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
-a long cut; a cut made at random.
-a large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
-swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

slash pine
-a kind of pine tree (pinus cubensis) found in southern florida and the west indies;
-- so called because it grows in "slashes."

slashed
-of slash
-marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.
-divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.

slasher
-a machine for applying size to warp yarns.

slashing
-of slash

slashy
-wet and dirty; slushy.

slat
-a thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
-to slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
-to split; to crack.
-to set on; to incite. see 3d slate.

slatch
-the period of a transitory breeze.
-an interval of fair weather.
-the loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

slate
-an argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
-any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
-a prepared piece of such stone.
-a thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
-a tablet for writing upon.
-an artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
-a thin plate of any material; a flake.
-a list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
-to cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
-to register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
-to set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. see 2d slat, 3.

slate
-color
-a dark bluish gray color.

slate
-gray
-of a dark gray, like slate.

slated
-of slate

slater
-one who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
-any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

slating
-of slate
-the act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.
-slates, collectively; also, material for slating.

slatt
-a slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

slatted
-of slat

slatter
-to be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.

slattern
-a woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
-resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.
-to consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste;
-- with away.

slatternliness
-the quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

slatternly
-resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.
-in a slatternly manner.

slatterpouch
-a dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.

slatting
-of slat
-slats, collectively.
-the violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.

slaty
-resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture.

slaughter
-the act of killing.
-the extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
-the act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
-to visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
-to butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.

slaughtered
-of slaughter

slaughterer
-one who slaughters.

slaughterhouse
-a house where beasts are butchered for the market.

slaughtering
-of slaughter

slaughterman
-one employed in slaughtering.

slaughtermen
-of slaughterman

slaughterous
-destructive; murderous.

slav
-one of a race of people occupying a large part of eastern and northern europe, including the russians, bulgarians, roumanians, servo
-croats, slovenes, poles, czechs, wends or sorbs, slovaks, etc.

slave
-see slav.
-a person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
-one who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
-a drudge; one who labors like a slave.
-an abject person; a wretch.
-to drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
-to enslave.

slaveborn
-born in slavery.

slaved
-of slave

slaveholder
-one who holds slaves.

slaveholding
-holding persons in slavery.

slaveocracy
-see slavocracy.

slaver
-a vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
-a person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
-to suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
-to be besmeared with saliva.
-to smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
-saliva driveling from the mouth.

slavered
-of slaver

slaverer
-a driveler; an idiot.

slaveries
-of slavery

slavering
-of slaver
-drooling; defiling with saliva.

slavery
-the condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
-a condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
-the holding of slaves.

slavey
-a maidservant.

slavic
-slavonic.
-the group of allied languages spoken by the slavs.

slaving
-of slave

slavish
-of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.

slavism
-the common feeling and interest of the slavonic race.

slavocracy
-the persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.

slavonian
-alt. of slavonic
-a native or inhabitant of slavonia; ethnologically, a slav.

slavonic
-of or pertaining to slavonia, or its inhabitants.
-of or pertaining to the slavs, or their language.

slavophil
-alt. of slavophile

slavophile
-one, not being a slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.

slavs
-of slav

slaw
-sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.
-alt. of slawen

slawen
-p. p. of slee, to slay.

slay
-to put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

slayer
-one who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

slaying
-of slay

slazy
-see sleazy.

sle
-to slay.

sleave
-the knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
-silk not yet twisted; floss;
-- called also sleave silk.
-to separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley;
-- a weaver's term.

sleaved
-of sleave
-raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk.

sleaving
-of sleave

sleaziness
-quality of being sleazy.

sleazy
-wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.

sled
-a vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice;
-- in england called sledge.
-a small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
-to convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.

sledded
-of sled

sledding
-of sled
-the act of transporting or riding on a sled.
-the state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.

sledge
-a strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
-a hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
-a sleigh.
-a game at cards;
-- called also old sledge, and all fours.
-to travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
-a large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands;
-- called also sledge hammer.

sledged
-of sledge

sledging
-of sledge

slee
-to slay.

sleek
-having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.
-not rough or harsh.
-with ease and dexterity.
-that which makes smooth; varnish.
-to make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.

sleeked
-of sleek

sleeking
-of sleek

sleekly
-in a sleek manner; smoothly.

sleekness
-the quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.

sleeky
-of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.
-fawning and deceitful; sly.

sleep
-imp. of sleep. slept.
-to take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
-to be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
-to be dead; to lie in the grave.
-to be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
-to be slumbering in;
-- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
-to give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
-a natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

sleep
-at
-noon
-a plant (tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.

sleep
-charged
-heavy with sleep.

sleeper
-one who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
-that which lies dormant, as a law.
-a sleeping car.
-an animal that hibernates, as the bear.
-a large fresh
-water gobioid fish (eleotris dormatrix).
-a nurse shark. see under nurse.
-something lying in a reclining posture or position.
-one of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
-one of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
-one of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
-the lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

sleepful
-strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.

sleepily
-in a sleepy manner; drowsily.

sleepiness
-the quality or state of being sleepy.

sleeping
-of sleep
-a. & n. from sleep.

sleepish
-disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

sleepless
-having no sleep; wakeful.
-having no rest; perpetually agitated.

sleepmarken
-see 1st hag, 4.

sleepwaker
-on in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.

sleepwaking
-the state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.

sleepwalker
-one who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.

sleepwalking
-walking in one's sleep.

sleepy
-drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
-tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
-dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
-characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.

sleepyhead
-a sleepy person.
-the ruddy duck.

sleer
-a slayer.

sleet
-the part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
-hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
-to snow or hail with a mixture of rain.

sleetch
-mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers.

sleeted
-of sleet

sleetiness
-the state of being sleety.

sleeting
-of sleet

sleety
-of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.

sleeve
-see sleave, untwisted thread.
-the part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown.
-a narrow channel of water.
-a tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.
-a long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.
-a short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
-to furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.

sleeved
-of sleeve
-having sleeves; furnished with sleeves;
-- often in composition; as, long
-sleeved.

sleevefish
-a squid.

sleevehand
-the part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband.

sleeveless
-having no sleeves.
-wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless.

sleeving
-of sleeve

sleid
-to sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.

sleided
-of sleid

sleiding
-of sleid

sleigh
-sly.
-a vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice;
-- in england commonly called a sledge.

sleighing
-the act of riding in a sleigh.
-the state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.

sleight
-cunning; craft; artful practice.
-an artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
-dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

sleightful
-cunning; dexterous.

sleightly
-cinningly.

sleighty
-cinning; sly.

slender
-small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
-weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
-moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
-small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
-spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
-uttered with a thin tone;
-- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

slent
-see slant.

slep
-imp. of sleep. slept.

slepez
-a burrowing rodent (spalax typhlus), native of russia and asia minor. it has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. called also mole rat.

slept
-of sleep
-imp. & p. p. of sleep.

sleuth
-the track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

sleuthhound
-a hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.

slew
-of slay
-imp. of slay.
-see slue.

slewed
-somewhat drunk.

slewth
-sloth; idleness.

sley
-a weaver's reed.
-a guideway in a knitting machine.
-to separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed;
-- a term used by weavers. see sleave, and sleid.

slibber
-slippery.

slice
-a thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
-that which is thin and broad, like a slice.
-a broad, thin piece of plaster.
-a salver, platter, or tray.
-a knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
-a plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
-one of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
-a removable sliding bottom to galley.
-to cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
-to cut into parts; to divide.
-to clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

sliced
-of slice

slicer
-one who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.

slich
-alt. of slick

slicing
-of slice

slick
-see schlich.
-sleek; smooth.
-to make sleek or smoth.
-a wide paring chisel.

slicken
-sleek; smooth.

slickens
-the pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

slickensides
-the smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.
-a variety of galena found in derbyshire, england.

slicker
-that which makes smooth or sleek.
-a kind of burnisher for leather.
-a curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
-a waterproof coat.

slicking
-the act or process of smoothing.
-narrow veins of ore.

slickness
-the state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

slid
-imp. & p. p. of slide.
-of slide
-of slide

slidden
-p. p. of slide.
-of slide

slidder
-to slide with interruption.
-alt. of sliddery

slidderly
-alt. of sliddery

sliddery
-slippery.

slidding
-of slide

slide
-to move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
-especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
-to pass inadvertently.
-to pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
-to slip when walking or standing; to fall.
-to pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
-to pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
-to cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
-to pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
-the act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
-smooth, even passage or progress.
-that on which anything moves by sliding.
-an inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
-a surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
-that which operates by sliding.
-a cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
-a moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
-a clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
-a plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
-the descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
-a small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
-a grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
-an apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
-a sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
-same as guide bar, under guide.
-a slide valve.

slidegroat
-the game of shovelboard.

slider
-see slidder.
-one who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
-the red
-bellied terrapin (pseudemys rugosa).

sliding
-that slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.
-slippery; elusory.

slidometer
-an instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

slight
-sleight.
-to overthrow; to demolish.
-to make even or level.
-to throw heedlessly.
-not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle;
-- applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.
-not stout or heavy; slender.
-foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
-to disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.
-the act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
-slightly.

slighted
-of slight

slighten
-to slight.

slighter
-one who slights.

slightful
-see sleightful.

slighting
-of slight
-characterized by neglect or disregard.

slightingly
-in a slighting manner.

slightly
-in a slight manner.
-slightingly; negligently.

slightness
-the quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.

slighty
-slight.

slik
-such.

slily
-see slyly.

slim
-worthless; bad.
-weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
-of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.

slime
-soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
-any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
-bitumen.
-mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
-a mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
-to smear with slime.

slimed
-of slime

slimily
-in a slimy manner.

sliminess
-the quality or state of being slimy.

sliming
-of slime

slimly
-in a state of slimness; in a slim manner; slenderly.

slimness
-the quality or state of being slim.

slimsy
-flimsy; frail.

slimy
-of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.

sliness
-see slyness.

sling
-an instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. the missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.
-the act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
-a contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension
-a kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
-a loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
-a strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
-a band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast;
-- chiefly in the plural.
-to throw with a sling.
-to throw; to hurl; to cast.
-to hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
-to pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
-a drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.

slinger
-one who slings, or uses a sling.

slinging
-of sling

slink
-to creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
-to miscarry;
-- said of female beasts.
-to cast prematurely;
-- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.
-produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.
-thin; lean.
-the young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
-a thievish fellow; a sneak.

slinking
-of slink

slinky
-thin; lank.

slip
-to move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
-to slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip.
-to move or fly (out of place); to shoot;
-- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.
-to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work.
-to err; to fall into error or fault.
-to cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
-to omit; to loose by negligence.
-to cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper.
-to let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound.
-to cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
-to bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
-the act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice.
-an unintentional error or fault; a false step.
-a twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine.
-a slender piece; a strip; as, a slip of paper.
-a leash or string by which a dog is held;
-- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
-an escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip.
-a portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
-any covering easily slipped on.
-a loose garment worn by a woman.
-a child's pinafore.
-an outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip.
-the slip or sheath of a sword, and the like.
-a counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver.
-matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
-potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handles and other applied parts.
-a particular quantity of yarn.
-an inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair.
-an opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, peck slip.
-a narrow passage between buildings.
-a long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
-a dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
-the motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
-a fish, the sole.
-a fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. there are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip.

slip
-on
-a kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.

slipboard
-a board sliding in grooves.

slipcoat cheese
-a rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white.

slipes
-sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

slipknot
-knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.

slippage
-the act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

slipped
-of slip

slipper
-one who, or that which, slips.
-a kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
-a kind of apron or pinafore for children.
-a kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
-a piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment;
-- also called shoe, and gib.
-slippery.

slippered
-wearing slippers.

slipperily
-in a slippery manner.

slipperiness
-the quality of being slippery.

slipperness
-slipperiness.

slipperwort
-see calceolaria.

slippery
-having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
-not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
-not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
-liable to slip; not standing firm.
-unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
-uncertain in effect.
-wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

slippiness
-slipperiness.

slipping
-of slip

slippy
-slippery.

slipshod
-wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
-figuratively: careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.

slipshoe
-a slipper.

slipskin
-evasive.

slipslop
-weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.

slipstring
-one who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal.

slipthrift
-a spendthrift.

slish
-a cut; as, slish and slash.

slit
-3d. pers. sing. pres. of slide.
-of slit
-to cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
-to cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
-to cut; to sever; to divide.
-a long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.

slit
-shell
-any species of pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.

slither
-to slide; to glide.

slitted
-of slit

slitter
-one who, or that which, slits.

slitting
-of slit
-a. & n. from slit.

slive
-to sneak.
-to cut; to split; to separate.

sliver
-to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
-a long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
-a strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
-bait made of pieces of small fish. cf. kibblings.

slivered
-of sliver

slivering
-of sliver

sloakan
-a species of seaweed. [spelled also slowcawn.] see 3d laver.

sloam
-a layer of earth between coal seams.

sloat
-a narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.

slobber
-see slabber.
-see slabber.
-a jellyfish.
-salivation.

slobberer
-one who slobbers.
-a slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor.

slobbery
-wet; sloppy, as land.

slock
-alt. of slocken

slocken
-to quench; to allay; to slake. see slake.

slocking
-a. & n. from slock.

sloe
-a small, bitter, wild european plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.

slogan
-the war cry, or gathering word, of a highland clan in scotland; hence, any rallying cry.

sloggy
-sluggish.

sloke
-see sloakan.

sloo
-alt. of slue

sloom
-slumber.

sloomy
-sluggish; slow.

sloop
-a vessel having one mast and fore
-and
-aft rig, consisting of a boom
-and
-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. the typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. the sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. the two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. one radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. see cutter, and illustration in appendix.

slop
-water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
-mean and weak drink or liquid food;
-- usually in the plural.
-dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash
-bowls, etc.
-to cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
-to spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
-to overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it;
-- often with over.
-any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
-a loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
-ready
-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.

slope
-an oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
-any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
-sloping.
-in a sloping manner.
-to form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
-to take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
-to depart; to disappear suddenly.

sloped
-of slope

slopeness
-state of being slope.

slopewise
-obliquely.

sloping
-of slope
-inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.

slopped
-of slop

sloppiness
-the quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.

slopping
-of slop

sloppy
-wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

slopseller
-one who sells slops, or ready
-made clothes. see 4th slop, 3.

slopshop
-a shop where slops. or ready
-made clothes, are sold.

slopwork
-the manufacture of slops, or cheap ready
-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.

slopy
-sloping; inclined.

slosh
-alt. of sloshy

sloshy
-see slush, slushy.

slot
-a broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
-a bolt or bar for fastening a door.
-a narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
-to shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door.
-the track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind.

sloth
-slowness; tardiness.
-disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
-any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family bradypodidae, and the suborder tardigrada. they have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. both jaws are furnished with teeth (see illust. of edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. they inhabit south and central america and mexico.
-to be idle.

slothful
-addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.

slothhound
-see sleuthhound.

slotted
-having a slot.

slotting
-the act or process of making slots, or mortises.

slouch
-a hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
-an awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
-to droop, as the head.
-to walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
-to cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.

slouched
-of slouch

slouching
-of slouch
-hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.

slouchy
-slouching.

slough
-slow.
-a place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
-a wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
-imp. of slee, to slay. slew.
-the skin, commonly the cast
-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
-the dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
-to form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues;
-- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
-to cast off; to discard as refuse.

sloughed
-of slough

sloughing
-of slough
-the act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.

sloughy
-full of sloughs, miry.
-resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

sloven
-a man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order;
-- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.

slovenliness
-the quality or state of being slovenly.

slovenly
-a slovenly manner.

slovenness
-slovenliness.

slovenry
-slovenliness.

slow
-imp. of slee, to slay. slew.
-moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
-not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
-not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
-not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
-behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
-not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
-heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
-slowly.
-to render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.
-to go slower;
-- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
-a moth.

slow
-witted
-dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.

slowback
-a lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.

slowed
-of slow

slowenly
-having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress.
-characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.

slowh
-imp. of slee,to slay.

slowhound
-a sleuthhound.

slowing
-of slow

slowly
-in a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

slowness
-the quality or state of being slow.

slows
-milk sickness.

slowworm
-a lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

slub
-a roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove;
-- called also slubbing.
-to draw out and twist slightly;
-- said of slivers of wool.

slubbed
-of slub

slubber
-to do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
-to daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
-a slubbing machine.

slubberdegullion
-a mean, dirty wretch.

slubbered
-of slubber

slubbering
-of slubber

slubberingly
-in a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner.

slubbing
-of slub
-a. & n. from slub.

sludge
-mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
-small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.
-see slime, 4.

sludger
-a bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.

sludy
-miry; slushy.

slue
-a slough; a run or wet place. see 2d slough, 2.
-to turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn;
-- used also of any heavy body.
-in general, to turn about; to twist;
-- often used reflexively and followed by round.
-to turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course;
-- often followed by round.
-see sloough, 2.

slued
-of slue

slug
-a drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
-a hindrance; an obstruction.
-any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. they are closely allied to the land snails.
-any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
-a ship that sails slowly.
-an irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
-a thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page,
-- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
-to move slowly; to lie idle.
-to make sluggish.
-to load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
-to strike heavily.
-to become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel;
-- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

slug
-horn
-an erroneous form of the scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.

slugabed
-one who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.

sluggard
-a person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
-sluggish; lazy.

sluggardize
-to make lazy.

sluggardy
-the state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.

slugged
-of slug

slugger
-one who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.

slugging
-of slug

sluggish
-habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
-slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
-having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
-characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

sluggy
-sluggish.

slugs
-half
-roasted ore.

slugworm
-any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.

sluice
-an artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
-hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
-the stream flowing through a flood gate.
-a long box or trough through which water flows,
-- used for washing auriferous earth.
-to emit by, or as by, flood gates.
-to wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
-to wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

sluiced
-of sluice

sluiceway
-an artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

sluicing
-of sluice

sluicy
-falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.

sluing
-of slue

slum
-a foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat;
-- usually in the plural; as, westminster slums are haunts for theives.
-same as slimes.

slumber
-to sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
-to be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.
-to lay to sleep.
-to stun; to stupefy.
-sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

slumbered
-of slumber

slumberer
-one who slumbers; a sleeper.

slumbering
-of slumber

slumberingly
-in a slumbering manner.

slumberless
-without slumber; sleepless.

slumberous
-inviting slumber; soporiferous.
-being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.

slumbery
-sleepy.

slumbrous
-slumberous.

slumming
-visiting slums.

slump
-the gross amount; the mass; the lump.
-to lump; to throw into a mess.
-to fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
-a boggy place.
-the noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

slumped
-of slump

slumping
-of slump

slumpy
-easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.

slung
-of sling
-of sling
-imp. & p. p. of sling.

slunk
-of slink
-of slink
-imp. & p. p. of slink.

slur
-to soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
-to disparage; to traduce.
-to cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
-to cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
-to pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
-to sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
-to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
-a mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
-a trick played upon a person; an imposition.
-a mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
-in knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

slurred
-of slur
-marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.

slurring
-of slur

slush
-soft mud.
-a mixture of snow and water; half
-melted snow.
-a soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
-the refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
-a mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
-to smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
-to paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

slushed
-of slush

slushing
-of slush

slushy
-abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half
-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.

slut
-an untidy woman; a slattern.
-a servant girl; a drudge.
-a female dog; a bitch.

slutch
-slush.

slutchy
-slushy.

sluthhound
-sleuthhound.

sluttery
-the qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.

sluttish
-like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

sly
-dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing;
-- in a good sense.
-artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
-done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
-light or delicate; slight; thin.
-slyly.

slyboots
-a humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.

slyly
-in a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.

slyness
-the quality or state of being sly.

slype
-a narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.