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.

Milk sickness.

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.

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.

Somewhat small.

The quality or state of being small.

A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.

See Small, n., 2, 3.

A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.

A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.

Deep blue, like smalt.

A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

The emerald.

Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.

A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.

Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.

To waste away.

In a smart manner.

The quality or state of being smart.

An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (Polygonum Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.

A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

To smack.

Superficial knowledge; a smattering.

One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.

A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism.

A fat, oily substance; oinment.

Cottage cheese.

Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).

Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.

The smew.

A hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.

The pintail duck. The widgeon. The poachard. The smew.

To smooth.

The matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands. The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants. The cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.

Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.