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.

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.

a thin, flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer piece and a movable middle piece. Both pieces are graduated in such a way (as, by a logarithmic scale) that multiplication, division, and other mathematical functions of an input variable may be rapidly determined by movement of the middle pieces to a location on one scale corresponding to the input value, and reading off the result on another scale. A movable window with a hairline assists in alignment of the scales. This device has been largely superseded by the electronic calculator, which has a greater precision than the slide rule. Also called colloquially slipstick.

The game of shovelboard.

One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.

A way along which something slides.

That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

Slightly.

To slight.

One who slights.

See Sleightful.

Characterized by neglect or disregard.

In a slighting manner.

In a slight manner.

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

Slight.

Such.

Same as Slickensides.

See Slyly.

Worthless; bad.

To smear with slime.

An unusual fungus-like protist of the phylum Myxomycota or the class Myxomycetes, having a stage of growth in which it comprises a naked noncellular multinucleate mass of creeping protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; it also has a propagative phase in which it develops fruiting bodies bearing spores; it is sometimes classified as a protist. It is called also acellular slime mold.

In a slimy manner.

The quality or state of being slimy.

In a state of slimness; in a slim manner; slenderly.

The quality or state of being slim.

Flimsy; frail.

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.

See Slyness.

A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.

One who slings, or uses a sling.

tubular ring around the propeller hub of an airplane through which antifreeze solution is spread over the blades.

The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.

Thin; lank.

The act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice.

a friction clutch that will slip when the torque is too great

a railway car at the end of the train; it can be detached without stopping the train.

an unintentional utterance; a mistake in speaking.