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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Slur

Slur, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SLURRED; p. pr. & vb. n. SLURRING.] [Prov. Ger. schlüren, schlören, schlurren, L. Ger. slüren, slören, slarren, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, O. D. sloore, sloorken, a sluttish girl, sloorig, sloordig, mean.]

Sense 1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

Sense 2. To pass lightly; to conceal.

With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.

Sense 3. To cheat; to trick. [Rare.] “To slur men of what they fought for.” Hudibras.

Sense 4. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes. Busby.

Sense 5. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Slŭr, n.

noun

n. 1. A mark or stain; hence, slight reproach or disgrace; stigma; also, a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. “Gaining to his name a lasting slur.” South.

  1. A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
  2. (Mus.) A mark, thus [⌒ or ⏜], 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 stringed instrument; a tie.