Very large; monstrous; big.
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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 be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.
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.
One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
Walking in one's sleep.
Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
A sleepy person.
A slayer.
To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers.
The state of being sleety.
Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.
To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.
A squid.
The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband.
Having no sleeves.
To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.
A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.
The act of riding in a sleigh.
Cunning; craft; artful practice.
Cunning; dexterous.
Cinningly.
Cinning; sly.
Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
See Slant.
imp. of Sleep. Slept.
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.
imp. p. p. of Sleep.
The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.
A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
A wet place; a river inlet.
Somewhat drunk.
Sloth; idleness.
To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed; -- a term used by weavers. See Sleave, and Sleid.
Slippery.
To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.
A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.
See Schlich.
Sleek; smooth.
The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
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 waterproof coat.
The act or process of smoothing.
The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.
imp. p. p. of Slide.
p. p. of Slide.
To slide with interruption.
Slippery.
The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
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