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.

To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.

a. n. from Slock.

A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.

to walk heavily; to plod; to walk through resisting terrain, as in mud.

The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland.

A hard hitter; a slugger.

Sluggish.

See sloakan.

Slumber.

Sluggish; slow.

A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.

Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

State of being slope.

Obliquely.

Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.

The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.

A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.

The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind.

Sloping; inclined.

The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind.

To be idle.

Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.

See Sleuthhound.

Having a slot.

The act or process of making slots, or mortises.

To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.

Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.

Slouching.

To cast off; to discard as refuse.

The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.

Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.

The quality or state of being slovenly.

a slovenly manner.

Slovenliness.

Slovenliness.

A moth.

Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.

A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.

imp. of Slee,to slay.

A sleuthhound.

In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

The quality or state of being slow.

A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

Lit., skilled mechanical work, such as that required in wood carving; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the sloyd system) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work. The sloyd system derives its name from the fact that it was adopted or largely developed from a similar Swedish system, in which wood carving was a chief feature. Its purpose is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.

To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.

A slubbing machine.

A mean, dirty wretch.

In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner.

a. n. from Slub.

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.

Miry; slushy.

See Sloough, 2.

A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

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.

An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.

One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.

Sluggish; lazy.

To make lazy.

The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.

One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

Sluggish.

Half-roasted ore.

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.

To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

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.

Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.

To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming.

Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

In a slumbering manner.

Without slumber; sleepless.

Inviting slumber; soporiferous.

Sleepy.

Slumberous.

The impure residue, consisting of cocoons, propolis, etc., remaining after the wax is extracted from honeycombs.

Visiting slums. Sometimes used humorously, in reference to the appearance of a dignified person in a situation generally thought of as low-class.

A boggy place.

Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.

imp. p. p. of Sling.

imp. p. p. of Slink.

A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.

To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.

Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.

An untidy woman; a slattern.

Slush.

Slushy.

Sleuthhound.

The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.

Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

Slyly.

A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.

In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.

The quality or state of being sly.

A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.

Same as heroin; -- a slang term.

Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.

To make little or less.

A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.