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.
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.
a metal ring on a rotating part of a machine to provide a continuous electrical connection through brushes on stationary contacts
a short road giving access to an expressway
loose stitch catching only a thread or two of fabric, designed to be invisible from the right side.
pliers with a joint adjustable to two positions in order to increase the opening of the jaws.
A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.
A board sliding in grooves.
Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.
The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.
Slippery.
any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden.
Wearing slippers.
In a slippery manner.
The quality of being slippery.
Slipperiness.
See Calceolaria.
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.
Slipperiness.
Slippery.
Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
A slipper.
Evasive.
Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.
One who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal.
A spendthrift.
A cut; as, slish and slash.
A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
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.
To slide; to glide.
One who, or that which, slits.
a. n. from slit.
To cut; to split; to separate.
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 or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment, as of glass; a splinter.
A species of seaweed. See 3d Laver.
A layer of earth between coal seams.
A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.
See Slabber.
One who slobbers.
Wet; sloppy, as land.