Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 99
Slub (n.) A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.
Slubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Slub.
Slubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slub.
Slub (v. t.) To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.
Slub (n.) Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design [syn: slub, knot, burl].
Slubber (n.) A slubbing machine.
Slubbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slubber.
Slubbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slubber.
Slubber (v. t.) To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
Slubber not business for my sake. -- Shak.
Slubber (v. t.) To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. -- Milton.
Slubberdegullion (n.) A mean, dirty wretch. [Low]
Slubberingly (adv.) In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. [Low] -- Drayton.
Slubbing () a. & n. from Slub.
Slubbing billy, or Slubbing machine, The machine by which slubs are formed.
Sludge (n.) Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. -- Mortimer. Tennyson.
Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow. -- Kane.
Sludge (n.) (Mining) See Slime, 4.
Sludge (n.) Anything resembling mud or slush; as:
Sludge (n.) A muddy or slimy deposit from sweage.
Sludge (n.) Mud from a drill hole in boring.
Sludge (n.) Muddy sediment in a steam boiler.
Sludge (n.) Settling of cottonseed oil, used in making soap, etc.
Sludge (n.) A residuum of crude paraffin-oil distillation.
Sludge hole, The hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.
Sludge (n.) The precipitate produced by sewage treatment
Sludge (n.) Any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze].
Sludger (n.) A shovel for sludging out drains, etc.
Sludger (n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
Sludy (a.) Miry; slushy.
Sloo, or slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
Slough (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. -- Chaucer.
He's here stuck in a slough. -- Milton.
Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]
Slough grass (Bot.), A name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.
Slued (imp. & p. p.) of Slue.
Sluing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slue.
Slue (v. t.) (Naut.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.
Slue (v. t.) In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round. [Colloq.]
They laughed, and slued themselves round. -- Dickens.
Slue (v. i.) To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.
Slue (n.) See Sloough, 2. [Local].
Slue (v.) Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut].
Slue (v.) Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: skid, slip, slue, slew, slide].
Slug (n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. -- Shak.
Slug (n.) A hindrance; an obstruction. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Slug (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
Slug (n.) (Zool.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
Slug (n.) A ship that sails slowly. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover. -- Pepys.
Slug (n.) [Perhaps a different word.] An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
Slug (n.) (Print.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
Sea slug. (Zool.) (a) Any nudibranch mollusk.
Sea slug. (Zool.) (b) A holothurian.
Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm.
Slug (v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle. [Obs.]
To slug in sloth and sensual delight. -- Spenser.
Slug (v. t.) To make sluggish. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Slugged (imp. & p. p.) of Slug.
Slugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slug.
Slug (v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
Slug (v. t.) To strike heavily. [Cant or Slang]
Slug (v. i.) 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.
Slug (n.) A projectile that is fired from a gun [syn: bullet, slug].
Slug (n.) A unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/ sec/ sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms.
Slug (n.) A counterfeit coin.
Slug (n.) An idle slothful person [syn: sluggard, slug].
Slug (n.) An amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped; "he took a slug of hard liquor."
Slug (n.) A strip of type metal used for spacing [syn: type slug, slug].
Slug (n.) Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell.
Slug (n.) (Boxing) A blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose" [syn: punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slug].
Slug (v.) Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" [syn: slug, slog, swig].
Slug (v.) Be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" [syn: idle, laze, slug, stagnate] [ant: work].
Slugabed (n.) One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [R.] "Fie, you slugabed!" -- Shak.
Slugabed (n.) A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour [syn: lie-abed, slugabed].
Sluggard (n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. -- Prov. vi. 6.
Sluggard (a.) Sluggish; lazy. -- Dryden.
Sluggard (n.) 1: An idle slothful person [syn: sluggard, slug].
Sluggardize (v. t.) To make lazy. [R.] -- Shak.
Sluggardy (n.) The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. -- Gower.
Idleness is rotten sluggardy. -- Chaucer.
Slugger (n.) One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [Cant or Slang]
Slugger (n.) (Baseball) A ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, hitter, slugger, batsman].
Slugger (n.) A boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches [syn: slugger, slogger].
Sluggish (a.) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
Sluggish (a.) Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
Sluggish (a.) Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. -- Woodward.
And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. -- Longfellow.
Sluggish (a.) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." -- Milton.
Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. -- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n.
Sluggish (a.) Moving slowly; "a sluggish stream" [syn: sluggish, sulky].
Sluggish (a.) (Of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish].
Sluggish (a.) Slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert, sluggish, soggy, torpid].
Sluggy (a.) Sluggish. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Slug-horn (a.) An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
Slugs (n. pl.) (Mining) Half-roasted ore.
Slugworm (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. -- Harte.
This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. -- I. Taylor.
Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
Sluice (n.) (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
Sluice gate, The sliding gate of a sluice.
Sluiced (imp. & p. p.) of Sluice.
Sluicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sluice.
Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] -- Milton.
Sluice (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. -- Howitt.
He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -- De Quincey.
Sluice (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Sluice (n.) Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate [syn: sluice, sluiceway, penstock].
Sluice (v.) Pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice, sluice down].
Sluice (v.) Irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn: sluice, flush].
Sluice (v.) Transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs."
Sluice (v.) Draw through a sluice; "sluice water."
Sluiceway (n.) 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.
Sluiceway (n.) Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate [syn: sluice, sluiceway, penstock].
Sluicy (a.) Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.
And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. -- Dryden.
Slum (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives. -- Dickens.
Slum (n.) pl. (Mining) Same as Slimes.
Slum (v. i.) To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming. [Colloq.]
Slum (n.) A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions [syn: slum, slum area].
Slum (v.) Spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century."
Slumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slumber.
Slumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slumber.
Slumber
(v. i.)
To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. -- Piers Plowman.
He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. -- Ps. cxxi. 4.
Slumber (v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope?" -- Young.
Slumber (v. t.) To lay to sleep. [R.] -- Wotton.
Slumber (v. t.) To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. -- Bunyan.
Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. -- Shak.
Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. -- Dryden.
Slumber (n.) A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber" [syn: sleep, slumber].
Slumber (n.) A dormant or quiescent state.
Slumber (v.) Be asleep [syn: sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's] [ant: wake].
Slumber (n.) [ C or U ] (Literary) 睡覺，睡眠 Sleep.
// I fell into a gentle slumber.
// I didn't want to rouse you from your slumbers.
// (Figurative) Sharp cuts in interest rates have failed to bring the economy out of its slumber.
Slumber (v.) [ I ] (Literary) 睡，睡覺 To sleep.
Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.
Slumberer (n.) A rester who is sleeping [syn: sleeper, slumberer].
Slumberingly (adv.) In a slumbering manner.
Slumberless (a.) Without slumber; sleepless.
Slumberous (a.) 催眠的 Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade." -- Pope.
Slumberous (a.) 昏昏欲睡的 Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.
His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. -- Hawthorne.
Slumberous (a.) Quiet and tranquil; "a slumberous June morning" [syn: slumberous, slumbrous].
Slumberous (a.) Inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect" [syn: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent].
Slumbery (a.) Sleepy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Slumbery (a.) Inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect" [syn: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent].
Slumbrous (a.) Slumberous. -- Keats.
Slumbrous (a.) Quiet and tranquil; "a slumberous June morning" [syn: slumberous, slumbrous].
Slumbrous (a.) Inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect" [syn: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent].
Slumming (vb. n.) Visiting slums. Sometimes used humorously, in reference to the appearance of a dignified person in a situation generally thought of as low-class.
Slump (n.) The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]
Slump (v. t.) To lump; to throw into a mess.
These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Slumped (imp. & p. p.) of Slump.
Slumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slump.
Slump (v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. -- Barrow.
Slump (v. i.) To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; -- said of masses of earth or rock.
Slump (v. i.) To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points. [Colloq.
Slump (n.) A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Slump (n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]
Slump (n.) A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc. [Colloq.]
Slump (n.) A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling off].
Slump (n.) A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [syn: depression, slump, economic crisis].
Slump (v.) Assume a drooping posture or carriage [syn: slump, slouch].
Slump (v.) Fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" [syn: slump, slide down, sink].
Slump (v.) Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" [syn: slump, fall off, sink].
Slump (v.) Go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct].
Slumpy (a.) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Compare: Sling
Sling (v. t.) [imp. Slung, Archaic Slang; p. p. Slung; p. pr. & vb. n. Slinging.] To throw with a sling. "Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss." -- Judg. xx. 16.
Sling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to cast. -- Addison.
Sling (v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
Sling (v. t.) (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
Slung
() imp. &
p. p. of Sling.
Slung shot, A metal ball of small size, with a string attached,
used by ruffians for striking.
Compare: Slink
Slink (v. t.) [imp. Slunk, Archaic Slank; p. p. Slunk; p. pr. & vb. n. Slinking.] To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. "To slink away and hide." -- Tale of Beryn.
Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent. -- Milton.
There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed. -- Landor.
Slink (v. t.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
Slunk () imp. & p. p. of Slink.
Slurred (imp. & p. p.) of Slur.
Slurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slur.
Slur (v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. -- Cudworth.
Slur (v. t.) To disparage; to traduce. -- Tennyson.
Slur (v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. -- Dryden.
Slur (v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
To slur men of what they fought for. -- Hudibras.
Slur (v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables ; to slur one's words.
Slur (v. t.) (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. -- Busby.
Slur (v. t.) (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Slur (n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to his name a lasting slur." -- South.
Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]