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Sleeve

SLEEVE,

1. The part of a garment that is fitted to cover the arm; as the sleeve of a coat or gown.

2. The raveled sleeve of car, in Shakespeare. [See Sleave.]

TO LAUGH IN THE SLEEVE, to laugh privately or unperceived; that is perhaps, originally, by hiding the face under the sleeve or arm.

TO HANG ON THE SLEEVE, to be or make dependent on others.

SLEEVE, verb transitive

1. To furnish with sleeves; as a sleeveless coat.

2. Wanting a cover, pretext or palliation; unreasonable; as a sleeveless tale of tran substantiation; a sleeveless errand. [Little used.]

Sleezy

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

Sleid

SLEID, verb transitive To sley or prepare for use in the weaver's sley or slaie.

Sleigh

SLEIGH, noun sla. [probably allied to sleek.] A vehicle moved on runners, and greatly used in America for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice. [This word the English write and pronounce sledge, and apply it to what we calla sled.]

Sleight

SLEIGHT, noun slite.

1. An artful trick; sly artifice; a trick or feat so dexterously performed that the manner of performance escapes observation; as sleight of hand.

2. Dexterous practice; dexterity.

Sleightful

SLEIGHTFUL, SLEIGHTY, adjective Artful; cunningly dexterous.

Sleighty

SLEIGHTFUL, SLEIGHTY adjective Artful; cunningly dexterous.

Slender

SLEN'DER, adjective

1. Thin; small in circumference compared with the length; not thick; as a slender stem or stalk of a plant.

2. Small in the waist; not thick or gross. A slender waist is considered as a beauty.

3. Not strong; small; slight. Mighty hearts are held in slender chains.

4. Weak; feeble; as slender hope; slender probabilities; a slender constitution.

5. Small; inconsiderable; as a man of slender parts.

6. Small; inadequate; as slender means of support; a slender pittance.

7. Not amply supplied. The good Ostorius often deign'd to grace my slender table.

8. Spare; abstemious; as a slender diet.

Slenderly

SLEN'DERLY, adverb

1. Without bulk.

2. Slightly; meanly; as a debt to be slenderly regarded.

3. Insufficiently; as a table slenderly supplied.

Slenderness

SLEN'DERNESS, noun Thinness; smallness of diameter in proportion to the length; as the slenderness of a hair.

2. Want of bulk or strength; as the slenderness of a cord or chain.

3. Weakness; slightness; as the slenderness of a reason.

4. Weakness; feebleness; as the slenderness of a constitution.

5. Want of plenty; as the slenderness of supply.

6. Spareness; as slenderness of diet.

Slent

SLENT, verb intransitive To make an oblique remark. [Not used. See Slant.]

Slept

SLEPT, preterit tense and participle passive of sleep.

Slete

SLATE, SLETE verb transitive To set a dog loose at any thing.

Slew

SLEW, preterit tense of slay.

Sley

SLEY, noun A weaver's reed. [See Sleave and Sleid.]

SLEY, verb transitive To separate; to part threads and arrange them in a reed; as weavers.

Slice

SLICE, verb transitive

1. To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin broad piece.

2. To cut into parts.

3. To cut; to divide.

SLICE, noun A thin broad piece cut off; as a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

2. A broad piece' as a slice of plaster.

3. A peel; a spatula; an instrument consisting of a broad plate with a handle, used by apothecaries for spreading plaster, _ c.

4. In ship-building, a tapering piece of plank to be driven between the timbers before planking.

Sliced

SLI'CED, participle passive Cut into broad thin pieces.

Slich

SLICH, noun The ore of a metal when pounded and prepared for working.

Slicing

SLI'CING, participle present tense Cutting into broad thin pieces.

Slick

SLICK , the popular pronunciation of sleek, and so written by some authors.

Slickensides

SLICK'ENSIDES, noun A name which workmen give to a variety of galena in Derbyshire.

Slid

SLID, preterit tense of slide.

SLID, SLID'DER, participle passive of slide.

Slidder

SLID'DER, verb intransitive [See Slide.] To slide with interruption. [Not in use.]

Slidderly

SLID'DER, SLID'DERLY, adjective [See Slide.] Slippery. [Not in use.]

Slide

SLIDE, verb intransitive preterit tense slid; participle passive slid, slidden.

1. To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without bounding or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, a sled slides on snow and ice; a snow-slip slides down the mountain's side.

2. To move along the surface without stepping; as, a man slides on ice.

3. To pass inadvertently. Make a door and a bar for thy mouth; beware thou slide not by it.

4. To pass smoothly along without jerks or agitation; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

5. To pass in silent unobserved progression. Ages shall slide away without perceiving.

6. To pass silently and gradually from one state to another; as, to slide insensibly into vicious practices, or into the customs of others.

7. To pass without difficulty or obstruction. Parts answ'ring parts shall slide into a whole.

8. To practice sliding or moving on ice. They bathe in summer and in winter slide

9. To slip; to fall.

10. To pass with an easy, smooth, uninterrupted course or flow.

SLIDE, verb transitive

1. To slip; to pass or put in imperceptibly; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.

2. To thrust along; or to thrust by slipping; as, to slide along a piece of timber.

SLIDE, noun

1. A smooth and easy passage; also, a slider.

2. Flow; even course.

Slider

SLIDER, noun

1. One that slides.

2. The part of an instrument or machine that slides.

Sliding

SLI'DING, participle present tense Moving along the surface by slipping; gliding; passing smoothly, easily or imperceptibly.

SLI'DING, noun Lapse; falling; used in backsliding.

Sliding-Rule

SLIDING-RULE, noun A mathematical instrument used to determine measure or quantity without compasses, by sliding the parts one by another.

Slight

SLIGHT, adjective [It seems that slight belongs to the family of sleek, smooth.]

1. Weak; inconsiderable; not forcible; as a slight impulse; a slight effort.

2. Not deep; as a slight impression.

3. Not violent; as a slight disease, illness or indisposition.

4. Trifling; of no great importance. slight is the subject, but not so the praise.

5. Not strong; not cogent. Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.

6. Negligent; not vehement; not done with effort. The shaking of the head is a gesture of slight refusal.

7. Not firm or strong; thin; of loose texture; as slight silk.

8. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.

SLIGHT, noun

1. Neglect; disregard; a moderate degree of contempt manifested negatively by neglect. It expresses less than contempt, disdain and scorn.

2. Artifice; dexterity. [See Sleight.]

SLIGHT, verb transitive

1. To neglect; to disregard from the consideration that a thing is of little value and unworthy of notice; as, to slight the divine commands, or the offers of mercy.

2. To overthrow; to demolish. [Not used.] 'The rogues slighted me into the river, ' in Shakespeare, is not used.

TO slight OVER, to run over in haste; to perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight over a theme.

Slighted

SLIGHTED, participle passive Neglected.

Slighten

SLIGHTEN, verb transitive To slight or disregard. [Not in use.]

Slighter

SLIGHTER, noun One who neglects.

Slighting

SLIGHTING, participle present tense Neglecting; disregarding.

Slightingly

SLIGHTINGLY, adverb With neglect; without respect.

Slightly

SLIGHTLY, adverb

1. Weakly; superficially; with inconsiderable force or effect; in a small degree; as a man slightly wounded; an audience slightly affected with preaching.

2. Negligently; without regard; with moderate contempt.

Slightness

SLIGHTNESS, noun

1. Weakness; want of force or strength; superficialness; as the slightness of a wound or an impression.

2. Negligence; want of attention; want of vehemence. How does it reproach the slightness of out sleepy heartless addresses!

Slighty

SLIGHTY, adjective

1. Superficial; slight.

2. Trifling; inconsiderable.

Slily

SLILY, adverb [from sly.] With artful or dexterous secrecy. Satan slily robs us of our grand treasure.

Slim

SLIM, adjective [Ice.]

1. Slender; of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the highth; as a slim person; a slim tree.

2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial.

3. Worthless.

Slime

SLIME, noun [Latin limus.] Soft moist earth having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. The had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. Genesis 11:3.

Slime-Pit

SLI'ME-PIT, noun A pit of slime or adhesive mire.

Sliminess

SLI'MINESS, noun The quality of slime; consisting of slime.

Slimy

SLI'MY, adjective

1. Abounding with slime; consisting of slime.

2. Overspread with slime; as a slimy eel.

3. Viscous; glutinous; as a slimy soil.

Sliness

SLI'NESS, noun [from sly.] Dexterous artifice to conceal any thing; artful secrecy.

Sling

SLING, noun

1. An instrument for throwing stones, consisting of a strap and two strings; the stone being lodged in the strap, is thrown by losing one of the strings With a sling and a stone David killed Goliath.

2. A throw; a stroke.

3. A kind of hanging bandage put round the neck, in which a wounded limb is sustained.

4. A rope by which a cask or bale is suspended and swung in or out of a ship

5. A drink composed of equal parts of rum or spirit and water sweetened.

SLING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive slung. [The primary sense seems to be to swing.]

1. To throw with a sling

2. To throw; to hurl.

3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.

4. To move or swing by a rope which suspends the thing.

Slinger

SLING'ER, noun One who slings or uses the sling.

Slinging

SLING'ING, participle present tense Throwing with a sling; hanging so as to swing; moving by a sling.

Slink

SLINK, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive slunk.

1. To sneak; to creep away meanly; to steal away. He would pinch the children in the dark, and then slink into a corner.

2. To miscarry, as a beast.

SLINK, verb transitive To cast prematurely; to miscarry of; as the female of a beast.

SLINK, noun Produced prematurely, as the young of a beast.

Slip

SLIP, verb intransitive [Latin labor, to slide.]

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

2. To slide; not to tread firmly. Walk carefully, lest your foot should slip

3. TO move or fly out of place; usually without; as, a bone may slip out of its place.

4. To sneak; to slink; to depart or withdraw secretly; with away. Thus one tradesman slips away to give his partner fairer play.

5. To err; to fall into error or fault. One slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.

6. To glide; to pass unexpectedly or imperceptibly. And thrice the flitting shadow slipp'd away.

7. To enter by oversight. An error may slip into a copy, notwithstanding all possible car.

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, verb transitive

1.To convey secretly. He tried to slip a powder into her drink.

2. To omit; to lose by negligence. Let us not slip the occasion. And slip no advantage that may secure you.

3. To part twigs from the branches or stem of a tree. The branches also may be slipped and planted.

4. To escape from; to leave slily. Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound. From is here understood.

5. To let loose; as, to slip the hounds.

6. To throw off; to disengage one's self from; as, a horse slip his bridle.

7. To pass over or omit negligently; as, to slip over that main points of a subject.

8. To tear off; as, to slip off a twig.

9. To suffer abortion; to miscarry; as a beast.

TO slip A CABLE, to veer out and let go the end.

TO slip ON, to put on in haste or loosely; as to slip on a gown or coat.

SLIP, noun

1. A sliding; act of slipping.

2. An unintentional error or fault.

3. A twig separated from the main stock; as the slip of a vine.

4. 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.

5. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.

6. A long narrow piece; as a slip of paper.

7. A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver. [Not in use.]

8. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge-tools.

9. A particular quantity of yarn.

10. An opening between wharves or in a dock.

11. A place having a gradual descent on the bank of a river or harbor, convenient for ship-building.

12. A long seat or narrow pew in churches.

SLIP'-BOARD, noun A board sliding in grooves.

SLIP'-KNOT, noun A bow-knot; a knot which will not beat a strain, or which os easily untied.

Slipper

SLIP'PER, noun

1. A kind of shoe consisting of a sole and vamp without quarters, which may be slipped on with ease and worn in undress; a slip-shoe.

2. A kind of apron for children, to be slipped over their other clothes to keep them clean.

3. A plant. [Latin crepis.]

4. A kind of iron slide or lock for the use of a heavy wagon.

SLIP'PER, adjective Slippery [Not in use.]

Slippered

SLIP'PERED, adjective Wearing slippers.

Slipperily

SLIP'PERILY, adverb [from slippery.] In a slippery manner.

Slipperiness

SLIP'PERINESS, noun

1. The state or quality of being slippery; lubricity; smoothness; glibness; as the slipperiness of ice or snow; the slipperiness of the tongue.

2. Uncertainty; want of firm footing.

3. Lubricity of character.

Slippery

SLIP'PERY, adjective

1. Smooth; glib; having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; as, oily substances render things slippery

2. Not affording firm footing or confidence; as a slippery promise. The slipp'ry tops of human state.

3. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. The slipp'ry god will try to loose his hold.

4. Not standing firm, as slippery standers.

5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; as the slippery state of kings.

6. Not certain in its effect; as a slippery trick.

7. Lubrious; wanton; unchaste.

Slippy

SLIP'PY, adjective Slippery. [Not in use.]

Slipshod

SLIP'SHOD, adjective [slip and shod.] Wearing shoes like slippers, without pulling up the quarters.

Slipstring

SLIP'STRING, noun [slip and string.] One that has shaken off restraint; a prodigal; called also slopthrift, but I believe seldom or never used.

Slit

SLIT, verb transitive preterit tense slit; participle passive slot or slitted.

1. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bard into nail rods.

2. To cut or make a long fissure; as, to slit the ear or tongue, or the nose.

3. To cut in general.

4. To rend; to split.

SLIT, noun

1. A long cut; or a narrow opening; as a slit in the ear.

2. A cleft or crack in the breast of cattle.

Slitter

SLIT'TER, noun One that slits.

Slitting

SLIT'TING, participle present tense Cutting lengthwise.

Slitting-Mill

SLIT'TING-MILL, noun A mill where iron bars are slit into nail rods _ c.

Slive

SLIVE, verb intransitive To sneak.

Sliver

SLIV'ER, verb transitive To cut or divide into long thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; as, to sliver wood.

SLIV'ER, noun A long piece cut or rent off, or a piece cut or rent lengthwise. In Scotland, it is said to signify a slice; as a sliver of beef.

Sloat

SLOAT, noun [from the root of Latin claudo.] A narrow piece of timber which holds together larger pieces; as the sloats of a cart. [In New England, this is called a slat, as the slats of a chair, cart, _ c.]

Slobber

SLOB'BER, and its derivatives, are a different orthography of slabber, the original pronunciation of which was probably slobber [See Slabber and Slaver.]

Slock

SLOCK, to quench, is a different orthography of slake, but not used.

Sloe

SLOE, noun A small wild plum, the fruit of the black thorn. [Prunus spinosa.]

Sloe-Worm

SLOW-WORM, SLOE-WORM noun An insect found on the leaves of the sloe-tree, which often changes its skin and assumes different colors. It changes into a four winged fly.

Sloom

SLOOM, noun Slumber. [Not used.]

Sloomy

SLOOM'Y, adjective Sluggish; slow. [Not used.]

Sloop

SLOOP, noun A vessel with one mast, the main-sail of which is attached to a gaff above, to a boom below, and to the mast on its foremost edge. It differs from a cutter by having a fixed steeving bowsprit, and a jib-stay. Sloops are of various sizes, from the size of a boat to that of more than 100 tons burthen.

SLOOP OF WAR, a vessel of war rigged either as a ship, brig, or schooner, and usually carrying from 10 to 18 guns.

Slop

SLOP, verb transitive [probably allied to lap.] To drink greedily and grossly. [Little used.]

SLOP, noun [probably allied to slabber.]

1. Water carelessly thrown about on a table or floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

2. Mean liquor; mean liquid food.

SLOP, noun Trowsers; a loose lower garment; drawers; hence, ready made clothes.

Slope

SLOPE, adjective [This word contains the elements of Latin labor, lapsus, and Eng. slip; also of Latin levo. Eng. lift. I know not whether it originally signified ascending or descending, probably the latter.] Inclined or inclining form a horizontal direction; forming an angle with the plane of the horizon; as slope hills. [Little used.]

SLOPE, noun

1. An oblique direction; a line or direction inclining from a horizontal line; properly, a direction downwards.

2. An oblique direction in general; a direction forming an angle with a perpendicular or other right line.

3. A declivity; any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon; also, an acclivity, as every declivity must be also an acclivity.

SLOPE, verb transitive To form with a slope; to form to declivity or obliquity; to direct obliquely; to incline; as, to slope the ground in a garde; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

SLOPE, verb intransitive To take an oblique direction; to be declivous or inclined.

Slopeness

SLO'PENESS, noun Declivity; obliquity. [Not much used.]

Slopewise

SLO'PEWISE, adverb Obliquely.

Sloping

SLO'PING, participle present tense

1. Taking an inclined direction.

2. adjective Oblique; declivous; inclining or inclined from a horizontal of other right line.

Slopingly

SLO'PINGLY, adverb Obliquely; with a slope.

Sloppiness

SLOP'PINESS, noun [from sloppy.] Wetness of the earth; muddiness.

Sloppy

SLOP'PY, adjective Wet, as the ground; muddy; plashy.

Slopseller

SLOP'SELLER, noun A shop where ready made clothes are sold.

Slot

SLOT, verb transitive To shut with violence; to slam, that is to drive. [Not in use.]

SLOT, noun A broad flat wooden bar.

SLOT, noun The track of a deer.

Sloth

SLOTH, noun

1. Slowness; tardiness I abhor this dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

2. Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. They change their course to pleasure, ease and sloth sloth like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.

3. An animal, so called from the remarkable slowness of his motions. There are two species of this animal; the ai or three toed sloth and the unau or two toed sloth; both found in South America. It is said that its greatest speed seldom exceeds three yard an hour. it feeds on vegetables and ruminates.

SLOTH, verb intransitive To be idle. [Not in use.]

Slothful

SLOTH'FUL, adjective Inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He that is slothful in his work, is brother to him that is a great waster. Proverbs 18:9.

Slothfully

SLOTH'FULLY, adverb Lazily; sluggish; idly.

Slothfulness

SLOTH'FULNESS, noun The indulgence of sloth; inactivity; the habit of idleness; laziness. slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. Proverbs 19:15.

Slottery

SLOT'TERY, adjective

1. Squalid; dirty; sluttish untrimmed. [Not in use.]

2. Foul; wet. [Not in use.]

Slouch

SLOUCH, noun [This word probably belongs to the root of lag, slug.]

1. A 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.

SLOUCH, verb intransitive To hang down; to have a down cast clownish look, gait or manner.

SLOUCH, verb transitive To depress; to cause to hang down; as, to slouch the hat.

Slouching

SLOUCH'ING, participle present tense

1. Causing to hang down.

2. adjective Hanging down; walking heavily and awkwardly.

Slough

SLOUGH, noun slou.

1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

2. [pron. sluff.] The skin or cast skin of a serpent. [Its use for the skin in general, in Shakespeare, is not authorized.]

3. [pron. sluff.] The part that separates from a foul sore. The dead part which separates from the living in mortification.

SLOUGH, verb intransitive sluff. To separate from the sound flesh; to come off; as the matter over a sore; a term in surgery.

TO slough OFF, to separate from the living parts, as the dead part in mortification.

Sloughly

SLOUGHLY, adjective slou'y. Full of sloughs; miry.

Sloven

SLOVEN, noun A man careless of his dress, or negligent of cleanliness; a man habitually negligent of neatness and order.

Slovenliness

SLOVENLINESS, noun [from sloven.]

1. Negligence of dress; habitual want of cleanliness.

2. Neglect of order and neatness.

Slovenly

SLOVENLY, adjective

1. Negligent of dress or neatness; as a slowenly man.

2. Loose; disorderly; not neat; as a slovenly dress.

SLOVENLY, adverb In a careless, inelegant manner.

Slovenry

SLOVENRY, noun Negligence of order or neatness; dirtiness. [Not in use.]

Slow

SLOW, adjective

1. Moving a small distance in a long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; as a slow stream; a slow motion.

2. Late; not happening in short time. These changes in the heavens though slow produc'd like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.

3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; as slow of speech, and slow of tongue. Exodus 4:10.

4. Dull; in active; tardy. The Trojans are not slow to guard their shore from an expected foe.

5. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation. The Lord is merciful, slow to anger. He that is slow the wrath is of great understanding. Proverbs 14:29.

6. Dull; heavy in wit.

7. Behind in time; indicating a time later than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow

8.Not advancing, growing or improving rapidly; as the slow growth of arts and sciences.

SLOW, is used in composition to modify other words; as a slow-paced horse.

SLOW, as a verb, to delay, is not in use.

SLOW, noun A moth. [Not in use.]

Slow-Worm

SLOW-WORM, SLOE-WORM, noun An insect found on the leaves of the sloe-tree, which often changes its skin and assumes different colors. It changes into a four winged fly.

SLOW-WORM, noun A kind of viper, the blind worm, scarcely venomous.

Slowback

SLOW'BACK, noun A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.

Slowly

SLOWLY, adverb

1. With moderate motion; not rapidly; not with velocity or celerity; as, to walk slowly

2. Not soon; not early; not in a little time; not with hasty advance; as a country that rises slowly into importance.

3. Not hastily; not rashly; not with precipitation; as, he determines slowly

4. Not promptly; not readily; as, he learns slowly

5. Tardily; with slow progress. The building proceeds slowly

Slowness

SLOWNESS, noun

1. Moderate motion; want of speed or velocity. Swifness and slowness are relative ideas.

2. Tardy advance; moderate progression; as the slowness of an operation; slowness of growth or improvement.

3. Dullness to admit conviction or affection; as slowness of heart.

4. Want of readiness or promptness; dullness of intellect.

5. Deliberation; coolness; caution in deciding.

6. Dilatoriness; tardiness.

Slubber

SLUB'BER, verb transitive To do lazily, imperfectly or coarsely; to daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. [Little used and vulgar.]

Slubberingly

SLUB'BERINGLY, adverb In a sloenly manner, [Not used and vulgar.]

Sludge

SLUDGE, noun Mud; mire; soft mud.

Sluds

SLUDS, noun Among miners, half roasted ore.

Slue

SLUE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to turn any thing conical or cylindrical, _ c. about its axis without removing it; to turn.

Slug

SLUG, noun [allied to slack, sluggard.]

1. A drone; a slow, heavy, lazy fellow.

2. A hinderance; obstruction.

3. A kind of snail, very destructive to plants, of the genus Limax. It is without a shell.

4. A cylindrical or oval piece of metal, used for the charge of a gun.

SLUG, verb intransitive To move slowly; to lie idle.

SLUG, verb transitive To make sluggish.

Slugabed

SLUG'ABED, noun One who indulges in lying abed. [Not in use.]

Sluggard

SLUG'GARD, noun [from slug and ard, slow kind.] A person habitually lazy, idle and inactive; a drone.

SLUG'GARD, adjective Sluggish; lazy.

Sluggardize

SLUG'GARDIZE, verb transitive To make lazy. [Little used.]

Sluggish

SLUG'GISH, adjective

1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as a sluggish man.

2.Slow; having little motion; as a sluggish river or stream.

3. Inert; inactive; having no power to move itself. Matter is sluggish and inactive.

Sluggishly

SLUG'GISHLY, adverb Lazily; slothfully; drowsily; idly; slowly.

Sluggishness

SLUG'GISHNESS, noun

1. Natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dullness; applied to persons.

2.Inertness; want of power to move; applied to inanimate matter.

3. Slowness; as the sluggishness of a steam.

Sluggy

SLUG'GY, adjective Sluggish [Not in use.]

Sluice

SLUICE, SLUSE, noun [Latin claudo, clausi, clausus; Low Latin exclusa. The most correct orthography is sluse.]

1. The stream of water issuing through a flood-gate; or the gate itself. If the word had its origin in shutting; it denoted the frame of boards or planks which closes the opening of a mill dam; but I believe it is applied to the stream, the gate and channel. It is a common saying, that a rapid stream runs like a sluse.

2. An opening; a source of supply; that through which any thing flows. Each sluice of affluent fortune open'd soon.

SLUICE, SLUSE, verb transitive To emit by flood-gates. [Little used]

Sluicy

SLUICY, SLU'SY, adjective Falling in streams as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descent of sluicy rain.

Slumber

SLUM'BER, verb intransitive

1. To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalms 121:4.

2. To sleep. slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style.

3. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness or inactivity. Why slumbers Pope?

SLUM'BER, verb transitive

1. To lay to sleep.

2. To stun; to stupefy. [Little used and hardly legitimate.]

SLUM'BER, noun

1. Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carelessness it shall settle into slumber and from slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep.

2. Sleep; repose.

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.

Slumberer

SLUM'BERER, noun One that slumbers.

Slumbering

SLUM'BERING, participle present tense Dozing; sleeping.

Slumbery

SLUM'BEROUS, SLUM'BERY, adjective

1. Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. While pensive in the slumberous shade

2. Sleep; not waking.

Slump

SLUMP, verb intransitive To fall or sink suddenly into water or mud, when walking on a hard surface, as on ice or frozed ground, not strong enough to bear the person. [This legitimate word is in common and respectable use in New England, and its signification is so approriate that no onther word wil supply its place.]

Slung

SLUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of sling.

Slunk

SLUNK, preterit tense and participle passive of slink.

Slur

SLUR, verb transitive

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

2. To pass lightly; to conceal. With periods, points and tropes he slurs his crimes.

3. To cheat; to trick. [Unusual.]

4. In music, to sing or perform in a smooth gliding style.

SLUR, noun

1. Properly, a black mark; hence, slight reproach or disgrace. Every violation of moral duty should be a slur to the reputation.

2. In music, a mark connecting noest that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stoke of a stringed instrument.

Sluse

SLUSE, a more correct orthography of sluice.

Slush

SLUSH, noun Soft mud, or a soft mixture of filthy substances. [This may be the Eng. slutch.]

Slusy

SLUICY, SLU'SY, adjective Falling in streams as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descent of sluicy rain.

Slut

SLUT, noun

1. A woman who is negligent of cleanliness, and who suffers her person, clothes, funiture, etc., to be dirty or in disorder.

2. A name of slight contempt for a woman.

Sluttery

SLUT'TERY, noun The qualities of a slut; more generally, the practice of a slut; neglect of cleanliness and order; dirtiness of clothes, rooms, furniture or provisions.

Sluttish

SLUT'TISH, adjective

1. Not neat or cleanly; dirty; careless of dress and neatness; disorderly; as a sluttish woman.

2. Disorderly; dirty; as a sluttish dress.

3. Meretricious. [Little used.]

Sluttishly

SLUT'TISHLY, adverb In a sluttish manner; negligently; dirtily.

Sluttishness

SLUT'TISHNESS, noun The qualities or practice of a slut; negligence of dress; dirtiness of dress, furniture and in domestic affairs generally.

Sly

SLY, adjective

1. Artfully dextrous in performing things secretly, and escaping observation or detection; usually implying some degree of meanness; artfully cunning; applied to persons; as a sly man or boy.

2. Done with artful and dextrous secrecy; as a sly trick.

3. Marked with artful secrecy; as sly circumspection.

4. Secret; concealed. Envy works in a sly imperceptible manner.

SLY'-BOOTS, noun A sly cunning or waggish person.

Slyly

SLYLY, SLYNESS. [See Slily, Sliness.]

Slyness

SLYLY, SLYNESS [See Slily, Sliness.]

Smack

SMACK, verb intransitive [The primary sense is to throw, to strike, whence to touch or taste; ]

1. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with violence.

2. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting any thing.

3. To have a taste; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

4. To have a tincture or quality infused. All sects, all ages smack of this vice.

SMACK, verb transitive

1. To kiss with a sharp noise.

2. To make a sharp noies with the lips.

3. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.

SMACK, noun

1. A loud kiss

2. A quick sharp noise, as of the lips or of a whip.

3. Taste; savor; tinture.

4. Pleasing taste.

5. A quick smart blow.

6. A small quantity; a taste.

7. A small vessel, commonly rigged as a cutter, used in the coasting and fishing trade.

Small

SMALL, adjective

1. Slender; thin; fine; of little diameter; hence in general, litte in size or quantity; not great; as a small house; a small horse; a small farm; a small body; small particles.

2. Minute; slender; fine; as a small voice.

3. Little in degree; as small improvement; small acquirements; the trouble is small Ther arose no small stir about that way. Acts 9:1.

4. Being of little moment, weight or importance; as, it is a small matter or thing; a small subject.

5. Of little genius or ability; petty; as a small poet or musician.

6. Short; containing little; as a small essay.

7. Little in amount; as a small sum; a small price.

8. Containing little of the principal quality, or little strenghth; weak; as small beer.

9. Gentle; soft; not loud. I Kings 19.

10. Mean; base; unworthy.

SMALL, noun The small or slender part of a thing; as the small of the leg or of the back.

SMALL, verb transitive To make little or less. [Not in use.]

Small-Beer

SMALL-BEER, noun [small and beer.] A species of weak beer.

Small-Coal

SMALL-COAL, noun [small and coal.] Little wood coals unsed to light fires.

Small-Craft

SMALL-CR'AFT, noun [small and craft.] A vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size, or below the size of ships and bigs intended for foreign trade.

Small-Pox

SMALL-POX', noun [small and pox, pocks.] A very contagious disease, characterized by an eruprion of pustules on the skin; the variolous disease.

Smallage

SMALL'AGE, noun A plant of the genus Apium, water parsley.

Smallish

SMALL'ISH, adjective Somewhat small.

Smallness

SMALL'NESS, noun Littleness of size or extent; littleness of quantity; as the smallness of a fly or of a horse; the smallness of a hill.

2. Littleness in degree; as the smallness of trouble or pain.

3. Littleness in force or strength; weakness; as smallness of mind or intellectual powers.

4. Fineness; softness; melodiousness; as the smallness of a female voice.

5. Littleness in amount of value; as the smallness of a sum.

6. Littleness of importance; inconsideratbleness; as the smallness of an affair.

Smally

SMALLY, adverb small'-ly. In a little quantity or degree; with minuteness. [Little used.]

Smalt

SMALT, noun A beautiful blue glass of cobalt; flint and potash fused together.

Smaragd

SMAR'AGD, noun The emerald.

Smaragdine

SMARAG'DINE, adjective [Latin Smaragdinus.] Pertaining to emerald; consisting of emerald, or resembling it; of an emerald green.

Smaragdite

SMARAG'DITE, noun A mineral; called also green diallage.

Smaris

SMAR'IS, noun A fish of a dark green color.

Smart

SM'ART, noun [This word is probably formed on the root of Latin amarus, bitter, that is, sharp.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as the smart of bodily punishment.

2. Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as the smart of affliction.

SM'ART, verb intransitive

1. To feel a lively pungent pain, particularly a pungent local pain from some piercing or irritating application. Thus Cayeene pepper applied to the tongue makes it smart

2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; as, to smart under sufferings.

3. To be punished; to bear penalties or the evil consequences of any thing. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Proverbs 11:15.

SM'ART, adjective

1. Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as smart pain or sufferings.

3. Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as a smart skirmish.

4. Brisk; fresh; as a smart breeze.

5. Acute and pertinent; witty; as a smart reply; a smart saying.

6. Brisk; vivacious; as a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

SM'ART, noun A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.

Smart-Weed

SM'ART-WEED, noun A name given to the arsmart or persicaria.

Smarten

SM'ARTEN, verb transitive To make smart. [Not in use.]

Smartle

SM'ARTLE, verb intransitive To waste away. [Not in use.]

Smartly

SM'ARTLY, adverb

1. With keen pain; as, to ake smartly

2. Briskly; sharply; wittily.

3. Vigorously; actively.

Smartness

SM'ARTNESS, noun

1. The quality of being smart or pungent; poignancy; as the smartness of pain.

2. Quickness; vigor; as the smartness of a blow.

3. Liveliness; briskness; vivacity; wittiness; as the smartness of a reply or of a phrase.

Smash

SMASH, verb transitive [probably mash, with a prefix.] To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here every thing is broken and smashed to pieces. [Vulgar.]

Smatch

SMATCH, noun [corrupted from smack.]

1. Taste; tincture. [Not in use or vulgar.]

2. A bird.

Smatter

SMAT'TER, verb intransitive [It contains the elements of mutter.]

1. To talk superficially or ignorantly. Of state affairs you cannot smatter

2. To have a slight taste, or a slight superficial knowledge.

SMAT'TER, noun Slight superficial knowledge.

Smatterer

SMAT'TERER, noun One who has only a slight superficial knowledge.

Smattering

SMAT'TERING, noun A slight superficial knowledge. [This is the word commonly used.]

Smear

SMEAR, verb transitive

1. To overspread with any thing unctuous, viscous or adhesive; to besmear; to daub; as, to smear any thing with oil, butter, pitch, etc.

2. To soil; to contaminate; to pollute; as smeared with infamy.

SMEAR, noun A fat oily substance; ointment. [Little used.]

Smeared

SME'ARED, participle passive Overspread with soft or oily matter; soiled.

Smearing

SME'ARING, participle present tense Overspreading with any thing soft and oleaginous; soiling.

Smeary

SME'ARY, adjective That smears or soils; adhesive. [Little used.]

Smeath

SMEATH, noun A sea fowl.

Smectite

SMEC'TITE, noun An argillaceous earth; so called from its property of taking grease out of cloth, etc.

Smeeth

SMEETH, verb transitive To smole. [Not in use.]

Smegmatic

SMEGMAT'IC, adjective Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.

Smell

SMELL, verb transitive pret and participle passive smelled, smelt. [I have not found this word in any other language.] TO perceive by the nose, or by the olfactory nerves; to have a sensation excited in certain organs of the nose by particular qualities of a body, which are transmitted in fine particles, often form a distance; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

TO smell OUT, is a low phrase signifying to find out by sagacity.

TO smell A RAT, is a low phrase signifying to suspect strongly.

SMELL, verb intransitive

1. To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or particualr scent; followed by of; as to smell of smoke; to smell of musk.

2. To have a particular tincuture or smack or any quality; as, a report smells of calumny. [Not elegant.]

3. To practice smelling. Exodus 30:38.

4. To exercise sagacity.

SMELL, noun

1. The sense of faculty by which through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves; or the faculty of perceiving by the organs of the nose; one of the five senses. In some species of beasts, the smell is remark able acute, particularly in the canine species.

2. Scent; odor; the quality of bodies which affects the olfactory organs; as the smell of mint; the smell of geranium. The sweetest smell in the air is that of the white double violet.

Smelled

SMELL'ED, SMELT, preterit tense and participle passive of smell.

Smeller

SMELL'ER, noun One that smells.

Smellfeast

SMELL'FEAST, noun [smell and feast.] One that is apt to find and frequent good tables; an epicure; a parasite.

Smelt

SMELT. [See Smelled.]

SMELT, noun A small fish that is very delicate food. But in Europe, a fish of the truttaceous kind, so names from its peculiar smell.

SMELT, verb transitive To melt, an ore, for the purpose of separating the metal from extraneous substances.

Smelted

SMELT'ED, participle passive Melted for the extraction of the metal.

Smelter

SMELT'ER, noun One the melts ore.

Smeltery

SMELT'ERY, noun A house or place for smelting ores.

Smelting

SMELT'ING, participle present tense Melting, as ore.

SMELT'ING, noun The operation of melting ores for the purpose of extracting the metal.

Smerk

SMERK, noun An affected smile.

SMERK, adjective Nice; smart; janty. So smerk so smooth he prick'd his ears.

Smerlin

SMER'LIN, noun A fish.

Smew

SMEW, noun An aquatic fowl, the Mergus albellus.

Smicker

SMICK'ER, verb intransitive To smerk; to look amorously or wantonly.

Smickering

SMICK'ERING, participle present tense Smerking; smiling affectedly.

SMICK'ERING, noun An affected smile or amorous look.

Smicket

SMICK'ET, noun Dim. of smock. [Not used.]

Smiddy

SMID'DY, noun A smithery or smith's workshop. [Not in use.]

Smight

SMIGHT, for smile, in Spenser, is a mistake.

Smile

SMILE, verb intransitive

1. To contract the features of the face in such a manner as to express pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness; the contrary to frown. The smiling infant in his hand shall take the crested basilisk and speckled snake. She smil'd to see the doughty hero slain.

2. To express slight contempt by a smiling liik, implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer. 'Twas what I said to Craggs and Child, who prais'd my modesty, and smil'd.

3. To look gay and joyous; or to have an appearance to excite joy; as smiling spring; smiling plenty. The desert smil'd, and paradise was open'd in the wild.

4. To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance. May heaven smile on out labors.

SMILE, verb transitive To awe with a contemptuous smile

SMILE, n,

1. A peculiar contraction of the features of the face, which naturally expresses pleasure, moderate joy, approbation or kindness; opposed to frown. Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles.

2. Gay or joyous appearance; as the smiles of spring.

3. Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as the smiles of providence.

A smile OF CONTEMPT, a look resembling that of pleasure, but usually or often it can be distinguished by an accompanying archness, or some glance intended to be understood.

Smiler

SMI'LER, noun One who smiles.

Smiling

SMI'LING, participle present tense Having a smile on the countenance; looking joyous or gay; looking propitious.

Smilingly

SMI'LINGLY, adverb With a look of pleasure.

Smilt

SMILT, for smelt. [Not in use.]

Smirch

SMIRCH, verb transitive smerch. [from murk, murky.] To cloud; to dusk; to soil; as, to smirch the face. [Low.]

Smirk

SMIRK, verb intransitive smerch. To look affectedly soft or kind. [See Smerk.]

Smit

SMIT, sometimes used for smitten. [See Smite.]