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 This device has been largely superseded by the electronic calculator, which has a greater precision than the slide rule.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

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.

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.