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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Slōt'ted, a.p. 1244Having a slot.
  2. Slōt'ter-y, a.p. 1244Squalid; dirty; sluttish; untrimmed. Chaucer. 2. Foul; wet. Pryce.
  3. Slŏt'ting-ma-chīne', n.p. 1244(Mach.) A machine-tool for making mortises, and the like;—a modification of the shaping-machine.
  4. Slouch, n.p. 1244A hanging down; a depression of the head or of some other part of the body; an ungainly, clownish gait. 2. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
  5. Slouch, v. i.p. 1244To hang down; to have a downcast, clownish look, gait, or manner.
  6. Slouch, v. t.p. 1244To depress; to cause to hang down; as, to slouch the hat.
  7. Slouch'ing, p. a.p. 1244Hanging down; walking heavily and awkwardly.
  8. Slough, n.p. 1244A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. “He's here stuck in a slough.” Milton.
  9. Slough, n.p. 1244The cast skin of a serpent. 2. (Med.) The part that separates from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living in mortification.
  10. Slough, v. i.p. 1244(Surg.) To separate from the sound flesh; to come off, as the matter formed over a sore. To slough off, to separate from the living parts, as the dead part in mortification.
  11. Slough'y, a.p. 1244Full of sloughs; miry.
  12. Slough'y, a.p. 1244Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from flesh.
  13. Slōv'en, n.p. 1244A man careless of his dress, or negligent of cleanliness; a man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order. He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.
  14. Slŏv'en-li-ness, n.p. 1244The state or quality of being slovenly; negligence of dress; habitual want of cleanliness; neglect of order and neatness.
  15. Slōv'en-ly, a.p. 1244Negligent of dress or neatness; as, a slovenly man. 2. Loose; disorderly; not neat; as, a slovenly dress.
  16. Slŏv'en-ly, adv.p. 1245In a slovenly manner.
  17. Slōv'en-ness, n.p. 1245Slovenliness. [Obs.] Is slovenness any advantage to sanctity? Fuller.
  18. Slōv'en-ry, n.p. 1245Negligence of order or neatness; dirtiness. [Obs.] Shak.
  19. Slōw, a.p. 1245Moving a small distance in a given time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion. 2. Not happening in a short time; late. These changes in…
  20. Slōw, v. t.p. 1245To render slow; to retard; as, to slow a steamer.
  21. Slōw, n.p. 1245A moth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  22. Slōw'băck, n.p. 1245A lubber; an idle fellow; a loi-terer. [Obs.]
  23. Slōw'-hound, n.p. 1245A sleuth-hound. W. Scott.
  24. Slōw'ly, adv.p. 1245In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readily; tardily.
  25. Slōw'ness, n.p. 1245The state or quality of being slow; moderate motion; want of speed or velocity; tardy advance; want of readiness or promptness; dullness; deliberation; dilatoriness; tardiness.
  26. Slōw's, n.p. 1245(Med.) Milk-sickness. See MILK-SICKNESS. Dunglison.
  27. Slōw'-worm, n.p. 1245(Zoöl.) A harmless reptile of the genus Anguis (A. fragilis), having a very brittle body; the blind-worm. Baird.
  28. Slŭb, n.p. 1245A roll of wool slightly twisted; — a term corresponding to rove and roving, in the manufacture of cotton; — called also slubbing.
  29. Slūb, v. t.p. 1245To draw out and slightly twist;— applied to wool.
  30. Slŭb'ber, v. t.p. 1245To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slobber not business for my sake. Shak. 2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. There is no art that hath been more . . . slobbered with spleenizing…
  31. Slŭb'ber-de-gŭll'ion, n.p. 1245A mean, dirty, sorry wretch. [Low.] Hudibras.
  32. Slăb'ber-ing-ly, adv.p. 1245In a slovenly, or a hurried and imperfect manner. [Vulgar.] Drayton.
  33. Slŭb'bing, n.p. 1245See SLUB.
  34. Slŭb’bing-bĭl’ly or Slŭb’bing-ma-chĭne, n.p. 1245The machine by which slubs are formed.
  35. Slŭdge, n.p. 1245Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. Mortimer. 2. Small floating pieces of ice or snow. Kane.
  36. Slŭdge'-hōle, n.p. 1245The mud-hole in boilers of steam-engines by means of which the sediment, &c., can be removed.
  37. Slŭdg'er, n.p. 1245An instrument for boring in sludge or quicksand.
  38. Slūdg'y, a.p. 1245Miry; slushy. Partington.
  39. Slūe, v. t.p. 1245(Naut.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn;—used also of any heavy body. 2. To turn about; to twist;—often followed by round. They laughed, and…
  40. Slūe, v. i.p. 1245To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course;—often followed by round.
  41. Slŭg, n.p. 1245A drone; a slow, heavy, lazy fellow. Shak. 2. A hindrance; obstruction. [Obs.] Bacon. 3. (Zoöl.) A kind of snail, of the genus Limax, very destructive to plants. ☞ Slugs are naked snails, or snails…
  42. Slŭg, n.p. 1245A cylindrical or oval piece of metal, used for the charge of a gun.
  43. Slŭg, v. i.p. 1245To move slowly; to lie idle. [Obs.] “To slug in sloth and sensual delight.” Spenser.
  44. Slŭg, v. t.p. 1245To make sluggish. [Obs.] Milton.
  45. Slŭg, v. t.p. 1245To load with a slug; as, to slug a gun.
  46. Slŭg'a-bĕd, n.p. 1245One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [Obs.] Shak.
  47. Slŭg'gard, n.p. 1245A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6.
  48. Slŭg'gard, a.p. 1245Sluggish; lazy. Dryden.
  49. Slūg'gard-ize, v. t.p. 1245To make lazy. [Obs.] Shak.
  50. Slŭg'gard-y, n.p. 1245The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness. [Obs.] Trower.
  51. Slŭg'gish, a.p. 1245Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish river or stream. 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert…
  52. Slŭg'gish-ly, adv.p. 1245In a sluggish manner; lazily; slothfully; drowsily; idly; slowly. Milton.
  53. Slŭg'gish-ness, n.p. 1245The state of being sluggish; natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dullness;— applied to persons. 2. Inertness; want of power to move;—used with reference to inanimate matter. 3.…
  54. Slŭg'gy, a.p. 1245Sluggish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  55. Slūgs, n. pl.p. 1245(Mining.) Half-roasted ore.
  56. Sluice, n.p. 1245An artificial passage for water fitted with a sliding valve or gate, as in a mill-stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. 2. Hence, any opening; that from which any thing flows; a source of…
  57. Slūice, v. t.p. 1245To emit by floodgates. [Rare.] Milton. 2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; to overwhelm; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold…
  58. Slūice'-gāte, n.p. 1245Same as SLUICE.
  59. Slūi'cy, a.p. 1245Falling in streams, as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.
  60. Slŭm, n.p. 1245A back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, and vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; as, Westminster slums, which are favorite haunts for thieves.…