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.
Slubbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slubber
Slubbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slubber
Slubber (v. t.) To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
Slubber (v. t.) To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
Slubber (n.) A slubbing machine.
Slubberdegullion (n.) A mean, dirty wretch.
Slubberingly (adv.) In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner.
Slubbing () a. & n. from Slub.
Sludge (n.) Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.
Sludge (n.) See Slime, 4.
Sludger (n.) A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.
Sludy (a.) Miry; slushy.
Slued (imp. & p. p.) of Slue
Sluing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slue
Slue (v. t.) 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.
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.
Slug (n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
Slug (n.) A hindrance; an obstruction.
Slug (n.) 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.) 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.
Slug (n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
Slug (n.) 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.
Slug (v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle.
Slug (v. t.) To make sluggish.
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.
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.
Slugabed (n.) One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
Sluggard (n.) A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
Sluggard (a.) Sluggish; lazy.
Sluggardize (v. t.) To make lazy.
Sluggardy (n.) The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.
Slugger (n.) One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.
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.
Sluggish (a.) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
Sluggy (a.) Sluggish.
Slug-horn (a.) An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
Slugs (n. pl.) Half-roasted ore.
Slugworm (n.) 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.
Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
Sluiced (imp. & p. p.) of Sluice
Sluicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sluice
Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
Sluice (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
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.
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.
Sluicy (a.) Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.
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.
Slum (n.) Same as Slimes.
Slumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slumber
Slumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slumber
Slumber (v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
Slumber (v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.
Slumber (v. t.) To lay to sleep.
Slumber (v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.
Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.
Slumberingly (adv.) In a slumbering manner.
Slumberless (a.) Without slumber; sleepless.
Slumberous (a.) Inviting slumber; soporiferous.
Slumberous (a.) Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.
Slumbery (a.) Sleepy.
Slumbrous (a.) Slumberous.
Slumming (vb. n.) Visiting slums.
Slump (n.) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
Slump (v. t.) To lump; to throw into a mess.
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.
Slump (n.) A boggy place.
Slump (n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
Slumpy (a.) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
Slung () imp. & p. p. of Sling.
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.
Slur (v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.
Slur (v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
Slur (v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
Slur (v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
Slur (v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
Slur (v. t.) 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.
Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.