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Sirup

SIRUP, noun sur'up, [oriental. See Sherbet and Absorb.] The sweet juice of vegetables or fruits, or other juice sweetened; or sugar boiled. with vegetable infusions.

Sirupy

SIR'UPY, adjective Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.

Sise

SISE, for assize. [Not used.]

Siskin

SIS'KIN, noun A bird, the green finch; another name of the aberdavine. The siskin or aberdavine is the Fringilla spinus; the green finch, the Fr. chloris, a different species.

Siss

SISS, verb intransitive To hiss; a legitimate word in universal popular use in New England.

Sister

SIS'TER, noun

1. A female born of the same patents; correlative to brother.

2. A woman of the same faith; a female fellow christian. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food. James 2:15.

3. A female of the same kind.

4. One of the same kind, or of the same condition; as sister-fruits.

5. A female of the same society; as the nuns of a convent.

SIS'TER, verb transitive To resemble closely.

SIS'TER, verb intransitive To be akin; to be near to. [Little used.]

Sister-In-Law

SISTER-IN-LAW, noun A husband's or wife's sister.

Sisterhood

SIS'TERHOOD, noun

1. Sisters collectively, or a society of sisters; or a society of females united in one faith or order.

2. The officer of duty of a sister. [Little used.]

Sisterly

SIS'TERLY, adjective Like a sister; becoming a sister; affectionate; as sisterly kindness.

Sit

SIT, verb intransitive preterit tense sat; old participle passive sitten [Latin sedeo.]

1. To rest upon the buttocks, as animals; as, to sit on a sofa or on the ground.

2. To perch; to rest on the feet; as fowls.

3. To occupy a seat or place in an official capacity. The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Matthew 23:2.

4. To be in a state of rest or idleness. Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Numbers 32:6.

5. To rest, lie or bear on, as a weight or burned; as, grief sits heavy on his heart.

6. To settle; to rest; to abide. Pale horror sat on each Arcadian face.

7. To incubate; to cover and warm eggs for hatching; as a fowl. As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not- Jeremiah 17:1.

8. To be adjusted; to be, with respect to fitness or unfitness; as, a coat sits well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, sits not so easy on me as you think.

9. To be placed in order to be painted; as, to sit for one's picture.

10. To be in any situation or condition. Suppose all the church lands to be thrown up to the laity; would the tenants sit easier in their rents than now?

11. To hold a session; to be officially engaged in public business; as judges, legislators or officers of any kind. The house of commons sometimes sits till late at night. The judges or the courts sit in Westminster hall. The commissioners sit every day.

12. To exercise authority; as, to sit in judgment. One council sits upon life and death.

13. To be in any assembly or council as a member; to have a seat.

14. To be in a local position. The wind sits fair. [Unusual]

To sit at meat, to be at table for eating.

To sit down,

1. to place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down at a meal.

2. To begin a siege. The enemy sat down before the town.

3. To settle; to fix a permanent abode.

4. To rest; to cease as satisfied. Here we cannot sit down, but still proceed in our search.

To sit out, to be without engagement or employment. [Little used.]

To sit up,

1. To rise or be raised from a recumbent posture. He that was dead sat up, and began to speak. Luke 7:1.

2. Not to go to bed; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person.

SIT, verb transitive

1. To keep the seat upon. He sits a horse well. [This phrase is elliptical.]

2. To sit me down, To sit him down, to sit them down, equivalent to I seated myself, _ c. are familiar phrases used by good writers, though deviation from strict propriety. They sat them down to weep.

3. 'The court was sat, ' an expression of Addison, is a gross impropriety.

Site

SITE, noun [Latin silus.]

1. Situation; local position; as the site of a city or of a house.

2. A seat or ground-plot; as a mill-site. But we usually say, mill-seat, by which we understand the place where a mill stands, or a place convenient for a mill.

3. The posture of a thing with respect of itself. The semblance of a lover fix'd in melancholy site [This is improper.]

Sited

SI'TED, adjective Placed; situated. [Not in use.]

Sitfast

SIT'FAST, noun A hard knob growing on a horse's back under the saddle.

Sith

SITH, adverb Since; in later times.

Sithe

SITHE, noun Time.

SITHE, [See Sythe.]

Sithence

SITH'ENCE, SITH'ES, adverb Since; in later times.

Sithes

SITH'ENCE, SITH'ES, adverb Since; in later times.

Sitter

SIT'TER, noun [from sit.]

1. One that sits. The Turks are great sitters.

2. A bird that sits or incubates.

Sitting

SIT'TING, participle present tense

1. Resting on the buttocks, or on the feet, as fowls; incubating; brooding; being in the actual exercise of authority, or being assembled for that purpose.

2. adjective In botany, sessile.

SIT'TING, noun

1. The posture of being on a seat.

2. The act of placing one's self on a seat; as a sitting down.

3. The act or time of resting in a posture for a painter or take the likeness. For a portrait, six or seven sittings may be required.

4. A session; the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; as a sitting of the judges of the king's bench; a sitting of the house of commons; during the sitting of the supreme court.

5. An uninterrupted application to business or study for a time; course of study unintermitted. For the understanding of any one of Paul's epistles, I read it through at one sitting

6. A time for which one sits, as at play, at work or on a visit.

7. Incubation; a resting on eggs for hatching; as fowls. The male bird amuses the female with his songs, during the whole time of her sitting

Situate

SIT'UATE, adjective [Latin situs, sedeo.]

1. Placed, with respect to any other object; as a town situate on a hill or on the sea shore.

2. Placed; consisting. Pleasure situate in hill and dale

[Note. In the United States, this word is less used than situated, but both are well authorized.]

Situated

SIT'UATED, adjective [See Situate.]

1. Seated, placed or standing with respect to any other object; as a city situated on a declivity, or in front of a lake; a town well situated for trade or manufactures; an observatory well situated for observation of the stars. New York is situated in the forty first degree of noun latitude.

2. Placed or being in any state or condition with regard to men or things. Observe how the executor is situated with respect to the heirs.

Situation

SITUA'TION, noun

1. Position; seat; location in respect to something else. The situation of London is more favorable for foreign commerce than that of Paris. The situation of a stranger among people of habits differing from his own, cannot be pleasant.

2. State; condition. He enjoys a situation of ease and tranquility.

3. Circumstances; temporary state; used of persons in a dramatic scene.

4. Place; office. He has a situation in the war department, or under government.

Sivan

SIV'AN, noun The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to part of our May and part of June.

Six

SIX, adjective [Latin sex; ] Twice three; one more than five.

SIX, noun The number of six or twice three. To be at six and seven, or as more generally used, at sixes and sevens, is to be in disorder.

Six-Penny

SIX'-PENNY, adjective Worth sixpence; as a six-penny loaf.

SIX'-PETALED, adjective In botany, having six distinct petals or flower leaves.

Sixfold

SIX'FOLD, adjective [six and fold.] Six times repeated; six double; six times as much.

Sixpence

SIX'PENCE, noun [six and pence.]

1. An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling.

2. The value of six pennies or half a shilling.

Sixscore

SIX'SCORE, adjective [six and score.] Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

Sixteen

SIX'TEEN, adjective Six and ten; noting the sum of six and ten.

Sixth

SIXTH, adjective The first after the fifth; the ordinal of six.

SIXTH, noun

1. The sixth part.

2. In music, a hexachord, as interval of two kinds; the minor sixth consisting of three tones and two semitones major, and the major sixth composed of four tones and a major semitone.

Sixthly

SIXTH'LY, adverb In the sixth place.

Sixtieth

SIXTIETH, adjective The ordinal of sixty.

Sixty

SIX'TY, adjective Ten times six.

SIX'TY, noun The number of six times ten.

Sizable

SIZABLE, adjective [from size.]

1. Of considerable bulk.

2. Being of reasonable of suitable size; as sizable timber.

Size

SIZE, noun [either contracted from assize, or from the Latin scissus. I take it to be from the former, and from the sense of setting, as we apply the word to the assize of bread.]

1. Bulk; bigness; magnitude; extent of superficies. size particularly expresses thickness; as the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. A man may be tall, with little size of body.

2. A settled quantity of allowance. [contracted from assize.]

3. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank and character; as men of less size and quality. [Not much used.]

SIZE, verb transitive

1. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

2. To settle; to fix the standard of; as, to size weights and measures. [Now little used.]

3. To cover with size; to prepare with size

4. To swell; to increase the bulk or.

5. Among Cornish miners, to separate the finer firm the coarser parts of a metal by sifting them through a wire sieve.

Sized

SI'ZED, participle passive

1. Adjusted according to size; prepared with size.

2. adjective Having a particular magnitude. And as my love is siz'd my fear is so. [Note. This word is used in compounds; as large-sized, common-sized, middle-sized, _ c.]

Sizel

SIZ'EL, noun In coining, the residue of bars of silver, after pieces are cut out for coins.

Sizier

SI'ZIER, noun In the university of Cambridge, a student of the rank nest below that of a pensioner.

Siziness

SI'ZINESS, noun [from sizy.] Glutinousness; viscousness; the quality of size; as the siziness of blood.

Sizy

SI'ZY, adjective [from size.] Glutinous; thick and viscous; ropy; having the adhesiveness of size; as sizy blood.

Skaddle

SKAD'DLE, noun Hurt; damage. [Not in use.]

SKAD'DLE, adjective Hurtful; mischievous. [Not in use.]

Skaddons

SKAD'DONS, noun The embryos of bees. [Not in use.]

Skain

SKAIN, noun A knot of thread, yarn or silk, or a number of knots collected.

Skainsmate

SKA'INSMATE, noun A messmate; a companion.

Skald

SKALD, noun An ancient Scandinavian poet or bard.

Skate

SKATE, noun A sort or shoe furnished with a smooth iron for sliding on ice.

SKATE, verb intransitive To slide or move on skates.

SKATE, noun [Latin squatus, squatina.] A fish of the ray kind, (Raia Batis; ) called the variegated ray-fish, It is a flat fish, the largest and thinnest of the genus, some of them weighing nearly two hundred pounds.

Skater

SKATER, noun One who skates on ice.

Skean

SKEAN, noun A short sword, or a knife. [Not in use.]

Skeed

SKEED. [See Skid.]

Skeel

SKEEL, noun A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.

Skeet

SKEET, noun A long scoop used to wet the sides of ships or the sails.

Skeg

SKEG, noun A little salmon.

Skeleton

SKEL'ETON, noun [Latin calleo, callus.]

1. The bones of an animal body, separated from the flesh and retained in their natural position or connections. When the bones are connected by the natural ligaments, it is called a natural skeleton; when by wires, or any foreign substance, an artificial skeleton

2. The compages, general structure or frame of any thing; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.

3. A very thin or lean person.

Skellum

SKEL'LUM, noun A scoundrel. [Not in use.]

Skep

SKEP, noun A sort of basket, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. [Not used in America.]

Skeptic

SKEPTIC. [See Sceptic.]

Sketch

SKETCH, noun [Latin scateo.] An outline or general delineation of any thing; a first rough or incomplete draught of a plan or any design; as the sketch of a building; the sketch of an essay.

SKETCH, verb transitive

1. To draw the outline or general figure of a thing; to make a rough draught.

2. To plan by giving the principal points or ideas.

Sketched

SKETCH'ED, participle passive Having the outline drawn.

Sketching

SKETCH'ING, participle present tense Drawing the outline.

Skew

SKEW, adverb Awry; obliquely. [See Askew.]

SKEW, verb transitive

1. To look obliquely upon; to notice slightly. [Not in use.]

2. To shape or form in an oblique way. [Not in use.]

SKEW, verb intransitive To walk obliquely.

Skewer

SKEW'ER, noun A pin of wood or iron for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.

SKEW'ER, verb transitive To fasten with skewers.

Skid

SKID, noun

1. A curving timber to preserve a ship's side from injury by heavy bodies hoisted or lowered against it; a slider.

2. A chain used for fastening the wheel of a wagon, to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.

Skiff

SKIFF, noun [Latin schapha; ] A small light boar resembling a yawl.

SKIFF, verb transitive To pass over in a light boat.

Skill

SKILL, noun Calleo, that is to strain, stretch, reach, and with to perfect, that is, to make sound, or to reach the utmost limit. The sense of folly, error, sin, preverseness, is from wandering, deviation.

1. The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes. Thus we speak of the skill of a mathematician, of a surveyor, of a physician or surgeon, of a mechanic or seaman. So we speak of skill in management or negotiation.

2. Any particular art.

SKILL, verb transitive To know; to understand.

SKILL, verb intransitive

1. To be knowing in; to be dextrous in performance.

2. To differ; to make difference; to matter or be of interest.

Skilled

SKILL'ED, adjective Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in the application of it; familiarly acquainted with; followed by in; as a professor skilled in logic or geometry; one skilled in the art of engraving.

Skilless

SKIL'LESS, adjective Wanting skill; artless.

Skillful

SKILL'FUL, adjective

1. Knowing; well versed in any art; hence, dextrous; able in management; able to perform nicely any manual operation in the arts or professions; as a skillful mechanic; a skillful operator in surgery.

2. Well versed in practice; as a skillful physician.

It is followed by at or in; as skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.

Skillfully

SKILL'FULLY, adverb With skill; with nice art; dextrously; as a machine skillfully made; a ship skillfully managed.

Skillfulness

SKILL'FULNESS, noun The quality of possessing skill; dextrousness; ability to perform well in any art or business, or to manage affairs with judgement and exactness, or according to good taste or just rules; knowledge and ability derived from experience.

Skilling

SKIL'LING, noun An isle or bay of a barn; also, a skight addition to a cottage

Skilt

SKILT, noun (See Skill) Difference.

Skim

SKIM, noun (a different orthography of scum;

Scum; the thich matter that forms on the surface of a liquor.

SKIM, verb transitive

1. To take off the thick gross matter which separates from any liquid substance and collects on the surface; as, to skim milk by taking off the cream.

2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

3. To pass near the surface; to brush the surface slightly.

SKIM, verb intransitive

1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even smooth course, or without flapping; as, an eagle or hawk skims along the etherial regions.

2. To glide along near the surface; to pass lightly.

3. To hasten over superficially or with slight attention.

They skim over a science in a superficial survey.

Skim-Coulter

SKIM-COULTER, noun A coulter for paring off the surface of land.

Skim-Milk

SKIM-MILK, noun Milk from which the cream has been taken.

Skimble-Scamble

SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE, adjective (a duplication of scamble). Wandering; disorderly.

Skimmer

SKIM'MER, noun

1. An utensil in the form of a scoop; used for skimming liquors.

2. One that skims over a subject.

3. A sea fowl, the cut-water.

Skimmings

SKIM'MINGS, noun plural Matter skimmed from the surface of liquors.

Skin

SKIN, noun

1. The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide. The cuticle is very thin and insensible; the cutis is thicker and very sensible.

2. A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.

3. The body; the person; in ludicrous language

4. The bark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

SKIN, verb transitive

1. To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel.

2. To cover with skin

3. to cover superficially.

SKIN, verb intransitive To be covered with skin; as a wound skins over.

Skindeep

SKIN'DEEP, adjective Superficial; not deep; slight.

Skinflint

SKIN'FLINT, noun (skin and flint) A very niggardly person.

Skink

SKINK, noun

1. Drink; pottage.

2. (Latin scincus) A small lizard of Egypt; also, the common name of a genus of lizards, with a long body entirely covered with rounded imbricate scales, all natives of warm climates.

SKINK, verb intransitive To bestow, to make a present. To serve drink.

Skinker

SKINK'ER, noun One that serves liquors.

Skinless

SKIN'LESS, adjective (from skin) Having a thin skin; as skinless fruit.

Skinned

SKIN'NED, participle passive

1. Stripped of the skin; flayed

2. Covered with skin.

Skinner

SKIN'NER, noun

1. One that skins.

2. One that deals in skins, plets or hides.

Skinniness

SKIN'NINESS, noun The quality of being skinny.

Skinny

SKIN'NY, adjective Consisting of skin, or of skin only; wanting flesh.

Skip

SKIP, verb intransitive To leap; to bound; to spring; as a goat or lamb.

To skip over, to pass without notice; to omit.

SKIP, verb transitive To pass over or by; to omit; to miss.

SKIP, noun A leap; a bound; a spring.

SKIP'-JACK, noun An upstart.

SKIP'-KENNEL, noun A lackey; a footboy.

Skipper

SKIP'PER, noun

1. The master of a small trading vessel.

2. (from skip.) A dancer.

3. A youngling; a young thoughtless person.

4. The hornfish, so called.

5. The cheese maggot.

Skippet

SKIP'PET, noun (See Ship and Skiff.) A small boat.

Skipping

SKIP'PING, participle present tense Leaping; bounding. skipping notes, in music, are notes that are not in regular course, but separate.

Skippingly

SKIP'PINGLY, adverb by leaps.

Skirmish

SKIRMISH, noun

1. A slight fight in war; a light combat by armies at a great distance from each other, or between detachments and small parties.

2. A contest; a contention.

They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit.

SKIRM'ISH, verb intransitive To fight slightly or in small parties.

Skirmisher

SKIRM'ISHER, noun One that skirmishes.

Skirmishing

SKIRM'ISHING, participle present tense Fighting slightly or in detached parties.

SKIRM'ISHING, noun The act of fighting in a loose or slight encounter.

Skirr

SKIRR, verb transitive To scour; to ramble over in order to clear.

SKIRR, verb intransitive To scour; to scud; to run hastily.

Skirret

SKIR'RET, noun A plant of the genus Sium.

Skirrus

SKIR'RUS. (See Scirrhus.)

Skirt

SKIRT, noun

1. The lower and loose part of a coat or other garment; the part below the waist; as the skirt of a coat or mantle. 1 Samuel 15:27.

2. The edge of any part of dress.

3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part; as the skirt of a forest; the skirt of a town.

4. A woman's garment like a petticoat.

5. The diaphragm or midriff in animals.

To spread the skirt over, in Scripture, to take under one's care and protection Ruth 3:9.

SKIRT, verb transitive To border; to form the border or edge; or to run along the edge; as a plain skirted by rows of trees; a circuit skirted round with wood.

SKIRT, verb intransitive To be on the border; to live near the extremity.

Savages--who skirt along our western frontiers.

Skirted

SKIRT'ED, participle passive Bordered.

Skirting

SKIRT'ING, participle present tense Bordering; forming a border.

Skit

SKIT, noun A wanton girl; a reflection; a jeer or jibe; a whim.

SKIT, verb transitive To cast reflections.

Skittish

SKIT'TISH, adjective

1. Shy; easily frightened; shunning familiarity; timorous; as a restif skittish jade. L'Estrange.

2. Wanton; volatile; hasty.

3. Changeable; fickle; as skittish fortune.

Skittishly

SKIT'TISHLY, adverb Shyly; wantonly; changeably.

Skittishness

SKIT'TISHNESS, noun

1. Shyness; aptness to fear approach; timidity.

2. Fickleness; wantonness.

Skittles

SKIT'TLES, noun Nine pins.

Skolezite

SKOL'EZITE, noun A mineral allied to Thomsonite, occurring crystallized and massive, colorless and nearly transparent. When a small portion of it is placed in the exterior flame of the blowpipe, it twists like a worm, becomes opake, and is converted into a blebby colorless glass.

Skonce

SKONCE, [See Sconce.]

Skoradite

SKOR'ADITE, noun A mineral of a greenish color of different shades or brown and nearly black, resembling the martial arseniate of copper. It occurs massive, but generally crystallized in rectangular prisms.

Skreen

SKREEN. (See Screen).

Skringe

SKRINGE, properly scringe; a vulgar corruption of cringe.

Skue

SKUE. (See Skew.)

Skug

SKUG, verb transitive To hide.

Skulk

SKULK, verb intransitive To lurk; to withdraw into a corner or into a close place for concealment (See Sculk).

Skull

SKULL, noun

1. The bone that forms the exterior of the head, and incloses the brain; the brain-pan. It is composed of several parts united at the sutures.

2. A person.

SKULLs that cannot teach and will not learn.

3. skull for skeal or school, of fish

Skull-Cap

SKULL'-CAP, noun

1. A head piece.

2. A plant of the genus Scutellaria.

Skunk

SKUNK, noun In America, the popular name of a fetid animal of the weasel kind; the Viverra Mephitis of Linne.

SKUNK'-CABBAGE,

SKUNK'-WEED, noun A plant vulgarly so called, the Tetodes fatidus, so named from its smell.

Skute

SKUTE, noun A boat. [See Scow.]

Sky

SKY, noun

1. The aerial region which surrounds the earth; the apparent arch or vault of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color.

2. The heavens.

3. The weather; the climate.

4. A cloud; a shadow.

Sky-Colored

SKY'-COLORED, adjective Like the sky in color; blue; azure.

SKY'-DYED, adjective Colored like the sky.

Skyey

SKY'EY, adjective Like the sky; etherial.

Skyish

SKY'ISH, adjective Like the sky, or approaching the sky. The skyish head of blue Olympus.

Skylark

SKY'LARK, noun A lark that mounts and sings as it flies.

SKY'-LIGHT, noun A window placed in the top of a house or ceiling of a room for admission of light.

SKY'-ROCKET, noun A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fire works.

Slab

SLAB, adjective Thick; viscous. [Not used.]

SLAB, noun

1. A plane or table of stone; as a marble slab

2. An outside piece taken from timber in sawing it into boards, planks, _ c.

3. A puddle. [See Slop.]

SLABS OF TIN, the lesser masses which the workers cast the metal into. These are run into molds of stone.

Slabber

SLAB'BER, verb intransitive To let the saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; to drivel. It is also written slaver.

SLAB'BER, verb transitive

1. To sup up hastily, as liquid food.

2. To wet and foul by liquids suffered to fall carelessly from the mouth.

3. To shed; to spill.

Slabbering

SLAB'BERING, participle present tense Driveling.

Slabby

SLAB'BY, adjective

1. Thick; viscous. [Not much used.]

2. Wet. [See Sloppy.]

SLAB'-LINE, noun A line or small rope by which seamen truss up the main-sail or fore-sail.

Slack

SLACK, adjective

1. Not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as a slack rope; slack rigging; slack shrouds.

2. Weak; remiss; not holding fast; as a slack hand.

3. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence; not earnest or eager; as slack in duty or service; slack in business.

4. Not violent; not rapid; slow; as a slack pace.

SLACK IN STAYS, in seamen's language, slow in going about; as a ship.

SLACK WATER, in seamen's language, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.

SLACK, adverb Partially; insufficiently; not intensely; as slack dried hops; bread slack baked.

SLACK, noun The part of a rope that hangs loose, having no stress upon it.

SLACK, SLACK'EN, verb intransitive

1. To become less tense, firm or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

2. To be remiss or backward; to neglect. Deuteronomy 23:21.

3. To lose cohesion or the quality of adhesion; as, lime slacks and crumbles into power.

4. To abate; to become less violent. Whence these raging fires will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.

5. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens; the tide slackens.

6.To languish; to fail; to flag.

SLACK, SLACK'EN, verb transitive

1. To lessen tension; to make less tense or tight; as, to slacken a rope or a bandage.

2. To relax; to remit; as, to slacken exertion or labor.

3. To mitigate; to diminish in severity; as, to slacken pain.

4. To become more slow; to lessen rapidity; as, to slacken one's pace.

5. To abate; to lower; as, to slacken the heat of a fire.

6. To relieve; to unbend; to remit; as, to slacken cares.

7. To withhold; to use less liberally.

8. To deprive or cohesion; as, to slack lime.

9. To repress; to check. I should be griev'd young prince, to think my presence unbent you thoughts and slacken'd 'em to arms.

10. To neglect. slack not the good presage.

11. To repress, or make less quick or active.

SLACK, noun Small coal; coal broken into small parts.

SLACK, noun A valley or small shallow dell.

Slacken

SLACK'EN, noun Among miners, a spungy semi-vitrified substance which they mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

Slackly

SLACK'LY, adverb

1. Not tightly; loosely.

2. Negligently; remissly.

Slackness

SLACK'NESS, noun

1. Looseness; the state opposite to tension; not tightness or rigidness; as the slackness of a cord or rope.

2. Remissness; negligence; inattention; as the slackness of men in business or duty; slackness in the performance of engagements.

3. Slowness; tardiness; want of tendency; as the slackness of flesh to heal.

4. Weakness; not intenseness.

Slade

SLADE, noun A little dell or valley; also, a flat piece of low moist ground.

Slag

SLAG, noun The dross or recrement of a metal; or vitrified cinders.

Slaie

SLAIE, noun A weaver's reed.

Slain

SLAIN, participle passive of slay; so written for slayen. Killed.

Slake

SLAKE, verb transitive To quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. And slake the heav'nly fire.

SLAKE, verb intransitive

1. To go out; to become extinct.

2. To grow less tense. [a mistake for slack.]

Slam

SLAM, verb transitive

1. To strike with force and noise; to shut against; a violent shutting of a door.

2. To beat; to cuff.

3. To strike down; to slaughter.

4. To win all the tricks in a hand; as we say, to take all at a stroke or dash.

SLAM, noun

1. A violent driving and dashing against; a violent shutting of a door.

2. Defeat at cards, or the winning of all the tricks.

3. The refuse of alum-works; used in Yorkshire as a manure, with sea weed and lime.

Slamkin

SLAM'KIN, SLAM'MERKIN, noun A slut; a slatternly woman. [Not used.]

Slammerkin

SLAM'KIN, SLAM'MERKIN, noun A slut; a slatternly woman. [Not used.]

Slander

SLA'NDER, noun

1. A false tale or report maliciously uttered. and tending to injure the reputation of another by lessening him in the esteem of his fellow citizens, by exposing min to impeachment and punishment, or by impairing his means of lining; defamation. slander that worst of poisons, ever finds an easy entrance to ignoble minds.

2 Disgrace; reproach; disreputation; ill name.

SLA'NDER, verb transitive To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report respecting one; to tarnish or impair the reputation of one by false tales, maliciously told or propagated.

Slandered

SLA'NDERED, participle passive Defamed; injured in good name by false and malicious reports.

Slanderer

SLA'NDERER, noun A defamer; one who injures another by maliciously reporting something to his prejudice.

Slandering

SLA'NDERING, participle present tense Defaming.

Slanderous

SLA'NDEROUS, adjective

1. That utters defamatory words or tales; as a slanderous tongue.

2. Containing slander or defamation; calumnious; as slanderous words, speeches or reports, false and maliciously uttered.

3. Scandalous; reproachful.

Slanderously

SL'ANDEROUSLY, adverb With slander; calumniously; with false and malicious reproach.

Slanderousness

SL'ANDEROUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being slanderous or defamatory.

Slang

SLANG, old preterit tense of sling. We now use slung.

SLANG, noun Low vulgar unmeaning language. [Low.]

Slank

SLANK, noun A plant. [alga marina.]

Slant

SLANT, STANTING, adjective Sloping; oblique; inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; as a slanting ray of light; a slanting floor.

Slantingly

SL'ANTINGLY, adverb With a slope or inclination; also, with an oblique hint or remark.

Slantly

SL'ANTLY, SL'ANTWISE, adverb Obliquely; in an inclined direction.

Slantwise

SL'ANTLY, SL'ANTWISE, adverb Obliquely; in an inclined direction.

Slap

SLAP, noun [Latin alapa and schloppus.] A blow given with the open hand, or with something broad.

SLAP, verb transitive To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.

SLAP, adverb With a sudden and violent blow.

Slapdash

SLAP'DASH, adverb [slap and dash.] All at once.

Slape

SLAPE, adjective Slippery; smooth.

Slapper

SLAP'PER, SLAPPING, adjective Very large. [Vulgar.]

Slapping

SLAP'PER, SLAPPING adjective Very large. [Vulgar.]

Slash

SLASH, verb transitive

1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long cuts.

2. To lash.

SLASH, verb intransitive To strike violently and at random with a sword, hanger or other edger instrument; to lay about one with blows. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades.

SLASH, noun A long cut; a cut made at random.

Slashed

SLASH'ED, participle passive Cut at random.

Slashing

SLASH'ING, participle present tense Striking violently and cutting at random.

Slat

SLAT, noun [This is doubtless the sloat of the English dictionaries. See Sloat.] A narrow piece of board or timber used to fasten together larger pieces; as the slats of a cart or a chair.

Slatch

SLATCH, noun

1. In seamen's language, the period of a transitory breeze.

2. An interval of fair weather.

3. Slack.

Slate

SLATE, noun

1. An argillaceous stone which readily splits into plates; argillite; argillaceous shist.

2. A piece of smooth argillaceous stone, used for covering buildings.

3. A piece of smooth stone of the above species, used for writing on.

SLATE, verb intransitive To cover with slate or plates of stone; as, to slate a roof. [It does not signify to tile.]

Slate-Ax

SLA'TE-AX, noun A mattock with an ax-end; used in slating.

Slated

SLA'TED, participle passive Covered with slates.

Slater

SLA'TER, verb intransitive

1. To be careless of dress and dirty.

2. To be careless, negligent or awkward; to spill carelessly.

Slattern

SLAT'TERN, noun A woman who is negligent of her dress, or who suffers her clothes and furniture to be in disorder; one who is not neat and nice.

SLAT'TERN, verb intransitive To slattern away, to consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste.

Slatternly

SLAT'TERNLY, adverb Negligently; awkwardly.

Slaty

SLA'TY, adjective Resembling slate; having the nature or properties of slate; as a slaty color or texture; a slaty feel.

Slaughter

SLAUGHTER, noun slaw'ter [See Slay.]

1. In a general sense, a killing. Applied to men, slaughter usually denotes great destruction of life by violent means; as the slaughter of men in battle.

2. Applied to beasts, butchery; a killing of oxen or other beasts for market.

SLAUGHTER, verb transitive slaw'ter.

1. To kill; to slay; to make great destruction of life; as , to slaughter men in battle.

2. To butcher; to kill for the market; as beasts.

Slaughter-House

SLAUGHTER-HOUSE, noun slaw'ter-house, A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

Slaughter-Man

SLAUGHTER-MAN, noun slaw'ter-man. One employed in killing.

Slaughtered

SLAUGHTERED, participle passive slaw'tered. Slain; butchered.

Slaughtering

SLAUGHTERING, participle present tense slaw'tering, Killing; destroying human life; butchering.

Slaughterous

SLAUGHTEROUS, adjective slaw'terous. Destructive; murderous.

Slave

SLAVE, noun

1. A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no will of his own, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. In the early state of the world, and to this day among some barbarous nations, prisoners of war are considered and treated as slaves. The slaves of modern times are more generally purchased, like horses and oxen.

2. One who has lost the poser of resistance; or one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as a slave to passion, to lust, to ambition.

3. A mean person; one in the lowest state of life.

4. A drudge; one who labors like a slave

SLAVE, verb intransitive To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave

Slave-Trade

SLA'VE-TRADE, noun [slave and trade.] The barbarous and wicked business of purchasing men and women, transporting them to a distant country and selling them for slaves.

Slaveborn

SLA'VEBORN, adjective Born in slavery.

Slaveish

SLA'VEISH, adjective

1. Pertaining to slaves; servile; mean; base; such as becomes a slave; as a slavish dependence on the great.

2. Servile; laborious; consisting in drudgery; as a slavish life.

Slavelike

SLA'VELIKE, adjective Like or becoming a slave.

Slaver

SLAV'ER, noun [the same as slabber.] Saliva driveling from the mouth.

SLAV'ER, verb intransitive

1. To suffer the spittle to issue from the mouth.

2. To be besmeared with saliva.

SLAV'ER, verb transitive To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel.

Slavered

SLAV'ERED, participle passive Defiled with drivel.

Slaverer

SLAV'ERER, noun A driveler; an idiot.

Slavering

SLAV'ERING, participle present tense Letting fall saliva.

Slavery

SLA'VERY, noun [See Slave.]

1. Bondage; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. slavery is the obligation to labor for the benefit of the master, without the contract of consent of the servant. slavery may proceed from crimes, from captivity or from debt. slavery is also voluntary or involuntary; voluntary, when a person sells or yields his own person to the absolute command of another; involuntary, when he is placed under the absolute power of another without his own consent. slavery no longer exists in Great Britain, not in the northern states of America.

2. The offices of a slave; drudgery.

Slavishly

SLA'VISHLY, adverb Servilely; meanly; basely.

Slavishness

SLA'VISHNESS, noun The state or quality of being slavish; servility; meanness.

SLAVON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Slavons or ancient inhabitants of Russia.

SLAVON'IC, noun The Slavonic language.

Slavonic

SLAVON'IC, adjective [from Sclavi, a people of the north of Europe.]

Pertaining to the Sclavi, a people that inhabited the country between the rivers Save and Drave, or to their language. Hence the word came to denote the language which is now spoken in Poland, Russia, Hungary, Bohemia, etc.

Slay

SLAY, verb transitive preterit tense slew; participle passive slain. [The proper sense is to strike, and as beating was an early mode of killing, this word, like smite, came to signify to kill. It seems to be formed on the root of lay; as we say to lay on.]

1. To kill; to put to death by a weapon or by violence. We say, he slew a man with a sword, with a stone, or with a club, or with other arms; but we never say, the serif slays a malefactor with a halter, or a man is slain on the gallows or by poison. So the slay retains something of its primitive sense of striking or beating. It is particularly applied to killing in battle, but is properly applied also to the killing of a individual man or beast.

2. To destroy.

Slayer

SLA'YER, noun One that slays; a killer; a murderer; an assassin; a destroyer of life.

Slaying

SLA'YING, participle present tense Killing; destroying life.

Sleave

SLEAVE, noun The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread; silk or thread untwisted.

SLEAVE, verb transitive To separate threads; or to divide a collection of threads; to sley; a word used by weavers.

Sleaved

SLE'AVED, adjective Raw; not spun or wrought.

Sleazy

SLEA'ZY, SLEE'ZY, adjective [probably from the root of loose.] Thin; flimsy; wanting firmness of texture or substance; as sleezy silk or muslin.

Sled

SLED, noun A carriage or vehicle moved on runners, much used in America for conveying heavy weights in winter, as timber, wood, stone and the like.

SLED, verb transitive To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.

Sledded

SLED'DED, participle passive Conveyed on a sled.

Sledding

SLED'DING, participle present tense Conveying on a sled.

SLED'DING, noun The act of transporting on a sled.

2. The means of conveying on sleds; snow sufficient for the running of sleds. Thus we say in America, when there is snow sufficient to run a sled, it is good sledding during the winter.

Sledge

SLEDGE, noun

1. A larger heavy hammer; used chiefly by ironsmiths.

2. In England, a sled; a vehicle moved on runners or on low wheels. In this sense, the word is not used in America; but the same word is used in a somewhat different sense, and written sleigh.

Sleek

SLEEK, adjective [See Like]

1. Smooth; having an even smooth surface; whence, glossy; as sleek hair. So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make.

2. Not rough or harsh, Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek

SLEEK, noun That which make smooth; varnish. [Little used.]

SLEEK, verb transitive

1. To make even and smooth; as, to sleek the hair.

2. To render smooth, soft and glossy. Gentle, my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks.

SLEEK, adverb With ease and dexterity; with exactness. [Vulgar.]

Sleekly

SLEE'KLY, adverb Smoothly; nicely.

Sleekness

SLEE'KNESS, noun Smoothness of surface.

Sleekstone

SLEE'KSTONE, noun A smoothing stone.

Sleeky

SLEE'KY, adjective Of a sleek or smooth appearance. [Not in use.]

Sleep

SLEEP, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive slept.

1. To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind. The proper time to sleep in during the darkness of night.

2. To rest; to be unemployed; to be inactive or motionless; as, the sword sleeps in its sheath.

3. To rest; to lie or be still; not to be noticed or agitated. The question sleeps for the present.

4. To live thoughtlessly. We sleep over our happiness.

5. To be dead; to rest in the grave for a time. I Thess. 4.

6. To be careless, inattentive or unconcerned; not be vigilant.

SLEEP, noun That state of an animal in which the voluntary exertion of his mental and corporeal powers is suspended, and he rests unconscious of what passes around him, and not affected by the ordinary impressions of external objects. sleep is generally attended with a relaxation of the muscles, but the involuntary motions, as respiration and the circulation of the blood, are continued. The mind is often very active in sleep; but its powers not being under the control of reason, its exercises are very irregular. sleep is the natural rest or repose intended by the Creator to restore the powers of the body and mind, when exhausted or fatigued.

SLEEP OF PLANTS, a state of plants at night, when their least droop or are folded.

Sleeper

SLEE'PER, noun

1. A person that sleeps; also, a drone or lazy person.

2. That which lies dormant, as a law not executed. [Not in use.]

3. AN animal that lies dormant in winter, as the bear, the marmot, _ c.

4. In building, the oblique rafter that lies in a gutter,

5. In New England, a floor timber.

6. In ship-building, a thick piece of timber placed longitudinally in a ship's hold, opposite the several scarfs of the timbers, for strengthening the bows and stern-frame, particularly in the Greenland ships; or a piece of long compass-timber fayed and bolted diagonally upon the transoms.

7. In the glass trade, a large iron bar crossing the smaller ones, hindering the passage of coals, but leaving room for the ashes.

8. A platform.

9. A fish. [exocatus.]

Sleepful

SLEE'PFUL, adjective Strongly inclined to sleep. [Little used.]

Sleepfulness

SLEE'PFULNESS, noun Strong inclination to sleep. [Little used.]

Sleepily

SLEE'PILY, adverb

1. Drowsily; with desire to sleep.

2. Dully; in a lazy manner; heavily Raleigh

3. Stupidly.

Sleepiness

SLEE'PINESS, noun Drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Sleeping

SLEE'PING, participle present tense Resting; reposing in sleep.

SLEE'PING, noun The state of resting in sleep.

Sleepless

SLEE'PLESS, adjective

1. Having no sleep; without sleep; wakeful.

2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated; as Biscay's sleepless bay.

Sleeplessness

SLEE'PLESSNESS, noun Want or destitution of sleep.

Sleepy

SLEE'PY, adjective

1. Drowsy; inclined to sleep.

2. Not awake. She wak'd her sleep crew.

3. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as a sleepy drink or potion.

Sleet

SLEET, noun

1. A fall of hail or snow and rain together, usually in fine particles.

2. In gunnery, the part of the mortar passing form the chamber to the trunnions for strengthening that part.

SLEET, verb intransitive To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.

Sleety

SLEE'TY, adjective Bringing sleet.