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- English Word Slue Definition See Sloough, 2.
- English Word Slued Definition of Slue
- English Word Slug Definition A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
- English Word Slug Definition A hindrance; an obstruction.
- English Word Slug Definition Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
- English Word Slug Definition Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
- English Word Slug Definition A ship that sails slowly.
- English Word Slug Definition An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
- English Word Slug Definition A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
- English Word Slug Definition To move slowly; to lie idle.
- English Word Slug Definition To make sluggish.
- English Word Slug Definition To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
- English Word Slug Definition To strike heavily.
- English Word Slug Definition To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
- English Word Slug-horn Definition An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
- English Word Slugabed Definition One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.
- English Word Sluggard Definition A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
- English Word Sluggard Definition Sluggish; lazy.
- English Word Sluggardize Definition To make lazy.
- English Word Sluggardy Definition The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.