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.

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.

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.

A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze.

The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.

Destitute of smell; having no odor.

One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell.

The act of one who smells.

To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.

One who, or that which, smelts.

A house or place for smelting.

A fish, the bib.

a. n. from Smelt.

See Smirk.

Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a.

A small loach.

small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun. The hooded merganser.

Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.

Amorous glance or inclination.

A woman's under-garment; a smock.

Smugly; finically.

A smithy.

A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

To smite.

See Parrilin.

A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla. A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.

The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown.

Not having a smile.

One who smiles.

A little smile.

In a smiling manner.

Quality or state of being smiling.

An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.

To melt.

Any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family Sminthuridae, -- usually found on flowers. See Illust. under Collembola.

A smutch; a dirty stain.

Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.

With smirking; with a smirk.

Smirk; smirking.

3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite.

The act of smiting; a blow.

One who smites.

To beat into shape; to forge.

The art or occupation of a smith; smithing.

Light, fine rain.

Fragments; atoms; smithers.

The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape.

Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. The Smithsonian Institution.

Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.

The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.