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Sludger (slŭjẽr), n. A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
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Sludy (?), a. Miry; slushy.
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Slue (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slued (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Sluing (�).] [Prov. E. slew to turn round, Scot. to lean or incline to a side; cf. Icel. sn�a to turn, bend.] [Written also slew.] 1. (Naut.) 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.
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2. In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round. [Colloq.]
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They laughed, and slued themselves round. Dickens.
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Slue, v. i. To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.
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Slue, n. See , 2. [Local]
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Slug (?), n. [OE. slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful; cf. LG. slukk low-spirited, sad, E. slack, slouch, D. slak, slek, a snail.] 1. A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Shak.
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2. A hindrance; an obstruction. [Obs.] Bacon.
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3. (Zoöl.) 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.
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4. (Zoöl.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
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5. A ship that sails slowly. [Obs.] Halliwell.
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His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover. Pepys.
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6. [Perhaps a different word.] An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
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7. (Print.) 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.
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Coloq. Sea slug . (Zoöl.) (a) Any nudibranch mollusk. (b) A holothurian. -- Coloq. Slug caterpillar . Same as .
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Slug, v. i. To move slowly; to lie idle. [Obs.]
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To slug in sloth and sensual delight. Spenser.
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Slug, v. t. To make sluggish. [Obs.] Milton.
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Slug, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slugged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Slugging (?).] 1. To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
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2. To strike heavily. [Cant or Slang]
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Slug, v. i. 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.
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Slugabed (?), n. One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [R.] “Fie, you slugabed!” Shak.
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Sluggard (?), n. [Slug + -ard.] A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6.
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Sluggard, a. Sluggish; lazy. Dryden.
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Sluggardize (?), v. t. To make lazy. [R.] Shak.
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Sluggardy (?), n. [OE. sloggardye.] The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. Gower.
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Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer.
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Slugger (?), n. One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [Cant or Slang]
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Slugging match. (a) A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. [Cant or Slang] (b) A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball. [Slang, U. S.]
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Slugging average. (Baseball) a measure of the effectiveness of a batter at reaching base and advancing other runners, calculated as the sum of the number of bases reached on each hit, divided by the total number of times at bat. A double counts two bases, a triple three, a home run four. Thus a batter with four singles, two doubles and a triple in 20 official times at bat would have a slugging average of 0.550, and a of 0.350. Also called slugging percentage. Compare .
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Sluggish (?), a. 1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
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2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
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3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
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Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward.
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And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow.
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4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] “So sluggish a conceit.” Milton.
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Syn. -- Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See .
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-- Sluggishly, adv. -- Sluggishness, n.
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Sluggy (?), a. Sluggish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Slug-horn (?), a. An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
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Slugs (?), n. pl. (Mining) Half-roasted ore.
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Slugworm (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.
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Sluice (?), n. [OF. escluse, F. écluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See .] 1. 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.
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2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte.
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This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor.
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3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
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Coloq. Sluice gate , the sliding gate of a sluice.
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Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing (?).] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton.
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2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
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He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.
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3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
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Sluiceway (?), n. 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.
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Sluicy (?), a. Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.
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And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.
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Slum (slŭm), n. [CF. , n.] 1. 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. Dickens.
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2. pl. (Mining) Same as .
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Slum (slŭm), v. i. To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming. [Colloq.]
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Slumber (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slumbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Slumbering.] [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent.] 1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman.
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He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.
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2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. “Why slumbers Pope?” Young.
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Slumber, v. t. 1. To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton.
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2. To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Slumber, n. Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
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He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. Bunyan.
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Fast asleep? It is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak.
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Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden.
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Slumberer (?), n. One who slumbers; a sleeper.
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Slumberingly, adv. In a slumbering manner.
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Slumberless, a. Without slumber; sleepless.
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Slumberous (?), a. 1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous. “Pensive in the slumberous shade.” Pope.
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2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.
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His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne.
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Slumbery (?), a. Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Slumbrous (?), a. Slumberous. Keats.
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Slumgum (?), n. The impure residue, consisting of cocoons, propolis, etc., remaining after the wax is extracted from honeycombs.
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Slumming, vb. n. Visiting slums. Sometimes used humorously, in reference to the appearance of a dignified person in a situation generally thought of as low-class.
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Slump (?), n. [Cf. D. slomp a mass, heap, Dan. slump a quantity, and E. slump, v.t.] The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]
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Slump, v. t. [Cf. ; also Sw. slumpa to bargain for the lump.] To lump; to throw into a mess.
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These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Slump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Slumping.] [Scot. slump a dull noise produced by something falling into a hole, a marsh, a swamp.] 1. 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.
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The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. Barrow.
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2. To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; -- said of masses of earth or rock.
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3. To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points. [Colloq.]
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Slump, n. 1. A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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2. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]
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3. A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc. [Colloq.]
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Slumpy (?), a. Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.
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Slung (?), imp. & p. p. of .
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Coloq. Slung shot , a metal ball of small size, with a string attached, used by ruffians for striking.
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Slunk (slŭṉk), imp. & p. p. of .
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Slur (slûr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slurred (slûrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring (slûrrĭng).] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. slōra, sloðra, to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish girl.] 1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Cudworth.
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2. To disparage; to traduce. Tennyson.
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3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
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With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.
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4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
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To slur men of what they fought for. Hudibras.
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5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words.
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6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. Busby.
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7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
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Slur, n. 1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. “Gaining to his name a lasting slur.” South.
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2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
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3. (Mus.) 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.
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4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
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Slurred (slûrd), a. (Mus.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
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Slush (slŭsh), n. [Cf. Sw. slaska to paddle in water, slask wet, filth.] [Written also slosh.] 1. Soft mud.
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2. A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
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3. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
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4. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
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5. (Mach.) 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.
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Slush (slŭsh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slushed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Slushing.] 1. To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
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2. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
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Slushy (slŭsh�), a. Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. “A dark, drizzling, slushy day.” Blackw. Mag.
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Slut (slŭt), n. [OE. slutte; cf. OD. slodde a slut, Icel. slöttr a heavy, loglike fellow, slota to droop.] 1. An untidy woman; a slattern.
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Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. Old Proverb.
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2. A servant girl; a drudge. [Obs.]
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Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others. Pepys.
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3. A female dog; a bitch.
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Slutch (?), n. [CF. .] Slush. [Prov. Eng.]
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Slutchy (?), a. Slushy. [Prov. Eng.] Pennant.
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Sluthhound (?), n. Sleuthhound.
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Sluttery (?), n. The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.
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Sluttish (?), a. Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.
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Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer.
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An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott.
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-- Sluttishly, adv. -- Sluttishness, n.
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Sly (?), a. [Compar. Slier (?) or Slyer; superl. Sliest or Slyest.] [OE. sli, slegh, sleih, Icel. sl�gr, for sl�gr; akin to Sw. slug, Dan. slu, LG. slou, G. schlau; probably to E. slay, v.t.; cf. G. verschlagen sly. See , v. t., and cf. .] 1. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.
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Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. Wyclif (Matt. x. 16).
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Whom graver age
And long experience hath made wise and sly. Fairfax.
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2. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
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For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness,
The litle of the kingdom I possess. Spenser.
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3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
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Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. I. Watts.
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4. Light or delicate; slight; thin. [Obs.]
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Coloq. By the sly , or Coloq. On the sly , in a sly or secret manner. [Colloq.] “Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly.” G. Eliot. -- Coloq. Sly goose (Zoöl.), the common sheldrake; -- so named from its craftiness.
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Syn. -- Cunning; crafty; subtile; wily. See .
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Sly, adv. Slyly. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.
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Slyboots (?), n. A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
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Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.
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Slyly, adv. In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
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Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.
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Slyness, n. The quality or state of being sly.
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Slype (?), n. [Cf. D. sluipen to sneak.] (Arch.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery. [Eng.]
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Smack (?), n. [D. smak; akin to LG. smack, smak, Dan. smakke, G. schmacke, F. semaque.] (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
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Smack, n. [OE. smak, AS. ssm�c taste, savor; akin to D. smaak, G. geschmack, OHG. smac; cf. Lith. smagus pleasant. Cf. , v. i.] 1. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
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So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. Robynson (More's Utopia).
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They felt the smack of this world. Latimer.
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2. A small quantity; a taste. Dryden.
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3. A loud kiss; a buss. “A clamorous smack.” Shak.
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4. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
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5. A quick, smart blow; a slap. Johnson.
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Smack, adv. As if with a smack or slap. [Colloq.]
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Smack, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smacked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Smacking.] [OE. smaken to taste, have a taste, -- from the noun; cf. AS. smecan taste; akin to D. smaken, G. schmecken, OHG. smechen to taste, smach�n to have a taste (and, derived from the same source, G. schmatzen to smack the lips, to kiss with a sharp noise, MHG. smatzen, smackzeen), Icel. smakka to taste, Sw. smaka, Dan. smage. See 2d , n.] 1. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
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2. To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
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All sects, all ages, smack of this vice. Shak.
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3. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
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4. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
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Smack, v. t. 1. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
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2. To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
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Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish. Sir W. Scott.
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3. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. “She smacks the silken thong.” Young.
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Smack, n. a slang term for . [slang]
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Smacking, n. A sharp, quick noise; a smack.
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Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. Dryden.
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