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- English Word Slip Definition An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip.
- English Word Slip Definition A narrow passage between buildings.
- English Word Slip Definition A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- English Word Slip Definition A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- English Word Slip Definition The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- English Word Slip Definition A fish, the sole.
- English Word Slip Definition A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip.
- English Word Slip-on Definition A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.
- English Word Slipboard Definition A board sliding in grooves.
- English Word Slipcoat cheese Definition A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white.
- English Word Slipes Definition Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
- English Word Slipknot Definition knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.
- English Word Slippage Definition The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.
- English Word Slipped Definition of Slip
- English Word Slipper Definition One who, or that which, slips.
- English Word Slipper Definition A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
- English Word Slipper Definition A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- English Word Slipper Definition A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- English Word Slipper Definition A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
- English Word Slipper Definition Slippery.
- English Word Slippered Definition Wearing slippers.
- English Word Slipperily Definition In a slippery manner.
- English Word Slipperiness Definition The quality of being slippery.
- English Word Slipperness Definition Slipperiness.
- English Word Slipperwort Definition See Calceolaria.
- English Word Slippery Definition Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
- English Word Slippery Definition Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
- English Word Slippery Definition Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
- English Word Slippery Definition Liable to slip; not standing firm.
- English Word Slippery Definition Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.