Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 100
Slur (n.) (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Slur (n.) (Music) A curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato.
Slur (n.) A disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility" [syn: aspersion, slur].
Slur (n.) A blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
Slur (v.) Play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata".
Slur (v.) Speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers".
Slur (v.) Utter indistinctly.
Slur (v.) Become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" [syn: blur, dim, slur] [ant: focalise, focalize, focus].
Slurred (a.) (Mus.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
Slurred (a.) Spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred" [syn: slurred, thick].
Slush (n.) Soft mud.
Slush (n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
Slush (n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
Slush (n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
Slush (n.) (Mach.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
Slushed (imp. & p. p.) of Slush.
Slushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slush.
Slush (v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
Slush (v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Slush (n.) Partially melted snow.
Slush (v.) Make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor" [syn: splash, splosh, slosh, slush].
Slush (v.) Spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" [syn: slosh, slush, slosh around, slush around].
Slushy (a.) Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. "A dark, drizzling, slushy day." -- Blackw. Mag.
Slushy (a.) Being or resembling melting snow; "slushy snow"; "deep slushy mud".
Slushy (a.) Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy].
Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. -- Old Proverb.
Slut (n.) An untidy woman; a slattern.
Slut (n.) A servant girl; a drudge. [Obs.]
Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others. -- Pepys.
Slut (n.) A female dog; a bitch.
Slut (n.) A dirty untidy woman [syn: slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop].
Slut (n.) A woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop].
Slutch (n.) Slush. [Prov. Eng.]
Slutchy (a.) Slushy. [Prov. Eng.] --Pennant.
Compare: Sleuthhound
Sleuthhound, (n.) [See Sleuth, and cf. Slothound.] (Zool.) A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]
Sluthhound (n.) Sleuthhound.
Sluttery (n.) The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. -- Drayton.
Sluttish (a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.
Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. -- Chaucer.
An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. -- Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly, adv. -- Slut"tish*ness, n.
Sluttish (a.) Characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women [syn: blowsy, blowzy, slatternly, sluttish].
Sluttish (a.) Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton].
Sly (a.) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.
Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. -- Wyclif (Matt. x. 16).
Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly. -- Fairfax.
Sly (a.) Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess. -- Spenser.
Sly (a.) Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. -- I. Watts.
Sly (a.) Light or delicate; slight; thin. [Obs.]
By the sly, or On the sly, In a sly or secret manner. [Colloq.] "Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly." -- G. Eliot.
Sly goose (Zool.), The common sheldrake; -- so named from its craftiness.
Syn: Cunning; crafty; subtile; wily. See Cunning.
Sly (adv.) Slyly. [Obs. or Poetic] --Spenser.
Sly (a.) Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily].
Slyboots (n.) A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. -- Goldsmith.
Slyboots (n.) A shifty deceptive person [syn: dodger, fox, slyboots].
Slyly (adv.) In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Honestly and slyly he it spent. -- Chaucer.
Slyly (adv.) In an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully].
Slyness (n.) The quality or state of being sly.
Slyness (n.) Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness].
Slype (n.) (Arch.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery. [Eng.]
Smack (n.) (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
Smack (n.) Same as heroin; -- a slang term. [slang]
Smack (n.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
They felt the smack of this world. -- Latimer.
Smack (n.) A small quantity; a taste. -- Dryden.
Smack (n.) A loud kiss; a buss. "A clamorous smack." -- Shak.
Smack (n.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Smack (n.) A quick, smart blow; a slap. -- Johnson.
Smack (adv.) As if with a smack or slap. [Colloq.]
Smacked (imp. & p. p.) of Smack.
Smacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smack.
Smack (v. i.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
Smack (v. i.) To have or exhibit and indication or suggestion of the presence of any character or quality; to have a taste, or flavor; -- used with of; as, a remark smacking of contempt.
All sects, all ages, smack of this vice. -- Shak.
Smack (v. i.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Smack (v. i.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
Smack (v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Smack (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish. -- Sir W. Scott.
Smack (v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. "She smacks the silken thong." -- Young.
Smack (adv.) Directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her" [syn: bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt].
Smack (n.) A blow from a flat object (as an open hand) [syn: slap, smack].
Smack (n.) The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth [syn: relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang].
Smack (n.) A sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast.
Smack (n.) Street names for heroin [syn: big H, hell dust, nose drops, smack, thunder, skag, scag].
Smack (n.) An enthusiastic kiss [syn: smack, smooch].
Smack (n.) The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand [syn: smack, smacking, slap].
Smack (v.) Deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" [syn: smack, thwack].
Smack (v.) Have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" [syn: smack, reek, smell].
Smack (v.) Have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg" [syn: smack, taste].
Smack (v.) Kiss lightly [syn: smack, peck].
Smack (v.) Press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in Eating.
Smacking (n.) A sharp, quick noise; a smack.
Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. -- Dryden.
Smacking (a.) Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.
Smacking (n.) The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand [syn: smack, smacking, slap].
Small (a.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
To compare Great things with small. -- Milton.
Small (a.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
Small (a.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. -- Carlyle.
Small (a.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space. -- Shak.
Small (a.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. "A still, small voice." -- 1 Kings xix. 12.
Great and small, Of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially of persons. "His quests, great and small." -- Chaucer.
Small arms, Muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction from cannon.
Small beer. See under Beer.
Small coal. (a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires. -- Gay.
Small coal. (b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening.
Small craft (Naut.), A vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size.
Small fruits. See under Fruit.
Small hand, A certain size of paper. See under Paper.
Small hours. See under Hour.
Small letter. (Print.), A lower-case letter. See Lower-case, and Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Small piece, () A Scotch coin worth about 21/4d. sterling, or about 41/2cents.
Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7.
Small stuff (Naut.), Spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat.
Small wares (Com.), Various small textile articles, as tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. -- M`Culloch.
Small (adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly. [Obs.] "I wept but small." -- Chaucer. "It small avails my mood." -- Shak.
Small (adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous]
You may speak as small as you will. -- Shak.
Small (n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
Small (n.) pl. Smallclothes. [Colloq.] -- Hood. Dickens.
Small (n.) pl. Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
Small (v. t.) To make little or less. [Obs.]
Small (adv.) On a small scale; "think small" [ant: big].
Small (a.) Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: small, little] [ant: big, large].
Small (a.) Limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized].
Small (a.) (Of children and animals) Young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small].
Small (a.) Slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between".
Small (a.) Low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small].
Small (a.) Lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule, small].
Small (a.) (Of a voice) Faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: little, small].
Small (a.) Have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain".
Small (a.) Not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" [syn: modest, small].
Small (a.) Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished, small].
Small (n.) The slender part of the back.
Small (n.) A garment size for a small person.
Small, () Functional, lazy, untyped.
["SMALL - A Small Interactive Functional System", L. Augustsson, TR 28, U Goteborg and Chalmers U, 1986].
Small, () A toy language used to illustrate denotational semantics.
["The Denotational Description of Programming Languages", M.J.C. Gordon, Springer 1979].
Smallage (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Smallclothes (n. pl.) A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
Smallish (a.) Somewhat small. -- G. W. Cable.
Smallish (a.) Rather small.
Smallness (n.) The quality or state of being small.
Smallness (n.) The property of having a relatively small size [syn: smallness, littleness] [ant: bigness, largeness].
Smallness (n.) The property of being a relatively small amount; "he was attracted by the smallness of the taxes."
Smallness (n.) The property of having relatively little strength or vigor; "the smallness of her voice" [syn: smallness, littleness].
Smallness (n.) Lack of generosity in trifling matters [syn: pettiness, littleness, smallness].
Smallpox (n.) (Med.) 【醫】天花 [U] 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.
Smallpox (n.) A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars [syn: smallpox, variola, variola major].
Smalls (n. pl.) See Small, n., 2, 3.
Smallsword (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
Smally (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.
Smalt (v. t.) 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.
Smalt-blue (a.) Deep blue, like smalt.
Smaltine (n.) Alt. of Smaltite.
Smaltite (n.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.
Smaragd (n.) The emerald.
Smaragdine (a.) Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.
Smaragdite (n.) A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.
Smarted (imp. & p. p.) of Smart.
Smarting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smart.
Smart (v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. -- Chaucer. -- Shak.
Smart (v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil ; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship.
No creature smarts so little as a fool. -- Pope.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. -- Prov. xi. 15.
Smart (v. t.) To cause a smart in. "A goad that . . . smarts the flesh." -- T. Adams.
Smart (n.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
Smart (n.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. -- Milton.
Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. -- Spenser.
Smart (n.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] -- Fielding.
Smart (n.) Smart money (see below). [Canf]
Smart (a.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience. -- Shak.
Smart (a.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
Smart (a.) Vigorous; sharp; severe. "Smart skirmishes, in which many fell." -- Clarendon.
Smart (a.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]
Smart (a.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. "The stars shine smarter". -- Dryden.
Smart (a.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? -- Young.
A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart. -- Addison.
Smart (a.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
Smart (a.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Smart money. (a) Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
Smart money. (b) (Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.
Smart money. (c) (Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done. -- Burrill. -- Greenleaf.
Smart ticket, A certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] -- Brande & C.
Syn: Pungent; poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively; brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy.
Usage: Smart, Clever. Smart has been much used in New England to describe a person who is intelligent, vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this in England is in such expressions as, he was smart (pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown, etc.
Smart (a.) Showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness [ant: stupid].
Smart (a.) Elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut" [syn: chic, smart, voguish].
Smart (a.) Characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average" [syn: bright, smart].
Smart (a.) Improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" [syn: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise].
Smart (a.) Painfully severe; "he gave the dog a smart blow".
Smart (a.) Quick and brisk; "I gave him a smart salute"; "we walked at a smart pace".
Smart (a.) Capable of independent and apparently intelligent action; "smart weapons".
Smart (n.) A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore [syn: smart, smarting, smartness].
Smart (v.) Be the source of pain [syn: ache, smart, hurt].
SMART, () Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (HDD, IDE, Conner, IBM, Quantum, Seagate, WD), "S.M.A.R.T."
Smart (a.) Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (yet ? see AI-complete). Compare robust (smart programs can be brittle).
SMART, () For MS-DOS? [{Jargon File]
Smart, () Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (yet - see AI-complete).
Compare robust (smart programs can be brittle).
Smart, () Incorporating some kind of digital electronics. (1995-03-28)
Smarten (v. t.) To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up. [Colloq.]
She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat. -- W. Black.
Smartle (v. i.) To waste away. [Prov. Eng.]
Smartly (adv.) In a smart manner.
Smartly (adv.) In a clever manner; "they were cleverly arranged"; "a smartly managed business" [syn: cleverly, smartly].
Smartly (adv.) With vigor; in a vigorous manner; "he defended his ideas vigorously" [syn: vigorously, smartly].
Smartly (adv.) In a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed" [syn: smartly, modishly, sprucely].
Smartness (n.) The quality or state of being smart.
Smartness (n.) A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore [syn: smart, smarting, smartness].
Smartness (n.) Intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty [syn: brightness, cleverness, smartness].
Smartness (n.) Elegance by virtue of being fashionable [syn: chic, chicness, chichi, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank, last word].
Smartness (n.) Liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him" [syn: alacrity, briskness, smartness].
Smartweed (n.) (Bot.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum ({Polygonum Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
Smashed (imp. & p. p.) of Smash.
Smashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smash.
Smash (v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. -- Burke.
Smash (v. t.) (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.
Smash (v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.