SPage 308
- English Word Slate Definition A prepared piece of such stone.
- English Word Slate Definition A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
- English Word Slate Definition A tablet for writing upon.
- English Word Slate Definition An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
- English Word Slate Definition A thin plate of any material; a flake.
- English Word Slate Definition A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
- English Word Slate Definition To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
- English Word Slate Definition To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
- English Word Slate Definition To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.
- English Word Slate-color Definition A dark bluish gray color.
- English Word Slate-gray Definition Of a dark gray, like slate.
- English Word Slated Definition of Slate
- English Word Slater Definition One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
- English Word Slater Definition Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
- English Word Slating Definition of Slate
- English Word Slating Definition The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.
- English Word Slating Definition Slates, collectively; also, material for slating.
- English Word Slatt Definition A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
- English Word Slatted Definition of Slat
- English Word Slatter Definition To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.
- English Word Slattern Definition A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
- English Word Slattern Definition Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.
- English Word Slattern Definition To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
- English Word Slatternliness Definition The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
- English Word Slatternly Definition Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.
- English Word Slatternly Definition In a slatternly manner.
- English Word Slatterpouch Definition A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.
- English Word Slatting Definition of Slat
- English Word Slatting Definition Slats, collectively.
- English Word Slatting Definition The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.