SPage 488
- English Word Slough Definition imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
- English Word Slough Definition The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
- English Word Slough Definition The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
- English Word Slough Definition To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
- English Word Slough Definition To cast off; to discard as refuse.
- English Word Sloughed Definition of Slough
- English Word Sloughing Definition of Slough
- English Word Sloughing Definition The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
- English Word Sloughy Definition Full of sloughs, miry.
- English Word Sloughy Definition Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
- English Word Sloven Definition A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.
- English Word Slovenliness Definition The quality or state of being slovenly.
- English Word Slovenly Definition a slovenly manner.
- English Word Slovenness Definition Slovenliness.
- English Word Slovenry Definition Slovenliness.
- English Word Slow Definition imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
- English Word Slow Definition Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
- English Word Slow Definition Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
- English Word Slow Definition Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
- English Word Slow Definition Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.