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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Slip

Slĭp, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. SLIPPED (slĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SLIPPING.] [A-S. slīpan, Goth. sliupan, O. Sax. slopian, L. Ger. & D. slippen, Dan. slippe, Sw. slippa, Icel. sleppa, O. H. Ger. sliofan, sliphan, sliupan, N. H. Ger. schleifen, schlipfen, schlüpfen.]

Sense 1. To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

Sense 2. To slide; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip.

Sense 3. To move or fly out of place;—usually with out; as, a bone may slip out of its place.

Sense 4. To sneak; to slink; to depart or withdraw secretly;—with away.

Thus one tradesman slips away, To give his partner fairer play. Prior.

Sense 5. To err; to fall into error or fault.

One slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart. Ecclus.

Sense 6. To pass unexpectedly or imperceptibly; to glide.

Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away. Dryden.

Sense 7. To enter by oversight; as, an error may slip into a copy, notwithstanding all possible care.

Sense 8. To escape insensibly; to be lost.

Use the most proper methods to retain the ideas you have acquired, for the mind is ready to let many of them slip.

Slip, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To convey secretly. He tried to slip a powder into her drink. Arbuthnot. 2. To omit; to lose by negligence. And slip no advantage That may secure you. B. Jonson. 3. To part from the branches or stem, as a branch of a tree; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of. The branches also may be slipped and planted. Mortimer. 4. To escape from; to leave slyly. Lucentio slipped me like his greyhound. Shak.

  1. To let loose; as, to slip the hounds. Dryden.
  2. To throw off; to disengage one's self from; as, a horse slips his bridle.
  3. To suffer abortion of; to miscarry, as a beast.

To slip a cable (Naut.), to veer out, and let go the end of it.—To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as, to slip on a gown or coat.

Slĭp, n.

noun

n. [A. S. slipe, slip.] 1. The act of slipping. 2. An unintentional error or fault. The good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom. Fuller.

  1. A twig separated from the main stock; as, the slip of a vine. “A native slip to us from foreign seeds.” Shak.
  2. A leash or string by which a dog is held; — so called from its being so made as to slip or become loose by relaxation of the hand.
  3. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip.
  4. A long, narrow piece; as, a slip of paper.
  5. (Print.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
  6. Any thing easily slipped on; as, (a.) A loose garment worn by a female. (b.) A child's pinafore. (c.) An outside covering or case; as, a pillow-slip; the slip or sheath of a sword, and the like. [Rare.]
  7. A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver. [Obs.] Shak.
  8. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge-tools. [Prov. Eng.] Petty.
  9. A clay cream or cement for attaching pieces to crockery ware.
  10. A particular quantity of yarn. [Prov. Eng.]
  11. An opening or space left between wharves or in a dock. [U. S.]
  12. A place having a gradual descent on the bank of a river or harbor, convenient for shipbuilding.
  13. A narrow passage between buildings.
  14. A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without any door. [U. S.]
  15. (Geol.) A mass of strata separated vertically or aslant.
  16. (Engin.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle-wheel, or of any propeller, through the water horizontally. This must be deducted from the speed of the propeller to ascertain the speed of the vessel.