The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing.

A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

An aeronaut.

To rise rapidly; -- usually used figuratively, as of prices.

The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

A skysail of a triangular form. A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building, especially one over 20 stories high. Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive.

Toward the sky.

That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.

Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.

A saw for cutting slabs from logs. A slabbing machine.

One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.

Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

Quality of being slabby.

Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces.

Thick; viscous.

The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.

A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.

In a slack manner.

The quality or state of being slack.

A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.

To form, or form into, a slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy cobalt.

A weaver's reed; a sley.

To go out; to become extinct.

Not capable of being slaked.

Slacken.

The act of one who, or that which, slams.

With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.

A slut; a slatternly woman.

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.

One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.

Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.

To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan.

Quality of being slangy.

Slangy.

Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.

imp. p. p. of Slink.

Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.

Oblique; sloping.

In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.

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.

Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.

A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite.

A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.

One who, or that which, slaps.

Very large; monstrous; big.

A long cut; a cut made at random.

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.

A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

Wet and dirty; slushy.

To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.

The period of a transitory breeze. An interval of fair weather. The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.

Of a dark gray, like slate.

Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.

A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. In a slatternly manner.

A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.

The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.

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.

To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.

One who slaughters.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

One employed in slaughtering.

Destructive; murderous.

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.

To enslave.

Born in slavery.

One who holds slaves.

Holding persons in slavery.

See Slavocracy.

Saliva driveling from the mouth.

A driveler; an idiot.

Drooling; defiling with saliva.

The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.

A maidservant.

Slavonic. The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.

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.

The common feeling and interest of the Slavonic race.

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

A native or inhabitant of Slavonia; ethnologically, a Slav.

Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.

One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race.

Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.

p. p. of Slee, to slay.

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

One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destroyer of life.

See Sleazy.

To slay.

To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.

Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk.

Quality of being sleazy.

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

To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.

The act of transporting or riding on a sled.

A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.

To slay.

To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.

In a sleek manner; smoothly.

The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.

Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.

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.

A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.

Heavy with sleep.

Something lying in a reclining posture or position.

Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.

In a sleepy manner; drowsily.

The quality or state of being sleepy.

a. n. from Sleep.

Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

Having no sleep; wakeful.

See 1st Hag, 4.

On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.

The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.