reason. a 3. A broad head fixed in a handle; a peel; a slide over their eyes, and vanish like a rhapsody a spatula. of evening tales. Watts. The pelican hath a beak broad and fiat, much 6. To pass silently and gradually from like the slice of apothecaries, with which they good to bad. spread plaisters. Haloill. Nor could they have slid into those brutish When burning with the iron in it, with the immoralities of life, had they duly manured slice clap the coals upon the outside close toge- those first practical notions and dictates of right ther, to kiep the heat in. ไo.io”. South. SLICK. adj. slickt, Dutch. See SLEEK.] 9. To pass without difficulty or obstrucWhom silver-bow'd Apollo bred, in the Pier- tion. jani mead, Such of them should be retained as slide easily Both sliche and daintie, yet were both in warre of themselves into English compounds, without of wond'rous dread. Chapman. violence to the ear. Pope. Glass attracts but weakly; some slick stones, Begin with sense, of ev'ry art the soul, and thick glasses, indifferently. Brown. Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole; SLID. The preterit of slide. Nature shall join you, time shall make it grow At first the silent venom slid with ease, A work to wonder at. „Pope. And seiz'd her cooler senses by degrees. Dryd. 8. To move upon the ice by a single imFrom the tops of heav'n's steep hill she slid, pulse, without change of feet. And straight the Greeks swift ships she reacht. The gallants dancing by the river side, They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. SLI'D DEN. The participle passive of Waller. slide. 9. To fall by errour. · Why is this people slidden back by a per- The discovering and reprehension of these petual backsliding? Feremiah. colours cannot be done but out of a very uniTO SLIDDER. V. n. [slidderen, Dutch.] versal knowledge of things, which so cleareth To slide with interruption. mau's judgment, as it is the less apt to slide into Go thou from me to fate, any errour. Bacon. Now die: with that he dragg'd the trembling 10. To be not firm. sire, Ye fair! Slidd'ring through clotted blood. Dryden. Be greatly cautious of your sliding hearts. Thom. The tempter saw the danger in a trice; 11. To pass with a free and gentle course For the man slidder'd upon fortune's ice. Harte. or flow. TO SLIDE. V. n. preterit slid; participle TO SLIDE, v. a. To put imperceptibly. pass. stidden. [rlidan, slidende, sliding, Little tricks of sophistry, by sliding in or leav Saxon; slijden, Dutch ; ys.litise, Welsh.] ing out such words as entirely change the ques1. To pass along smoothly; to slip; tion, should be abandoned by all fair disputants. Watts. glide. Sounds do not only slide upon the surface of a SLIDE. n. s. [from the verb.] smooth body, but communicate with the spirits 1. Smooth and easy passage. Bacon. We have some slides or relishes of the voice Ulyssus, Stheneleus, Tisander slide or strings, continued without notes, from one to Down by a rope, Machaon was their guide. another, rising or falling, which are delightful. Denham. Вгсох. 2. To move without change of the foot. Kings that have able men of their nobility Oh Ladon, happy Ladon! rather slide than shall find ease in employing them, and a better run by her, lest thou shouldst make her legs slip slide into their business; for people naturally from her, Sidney. bend to them. Bacont. Smooth sleeping without step. Milton. 2. Flow ; even course. He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, There be, whose fortunes are like Homer's Goes swistly down the slippery ways of vice: verses, that have a slide and easiness more than Though conscience checks him, yet, those rubs the verses of other poets. Bacon. Sli’DER. n. s. (trom slide.] He who He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more. Dryden. slides. SLIGHT. adj. [slicht, Dutch.] 1. Small; worthless ; inconsiderable. thou slide not by it. Ecclesiasticus. Is Casar with Antonius priz'd so slight? Sbakspeare. 4. To pass unnoticed., In the princess I could find no apprehension Their arms, their arts, their manners, I disof what I said or did, but a calm carelessness, close; letting every thing slive justly, as we do by their Slight is the subject, but the praise not small, specches, who neither in matter nor person do If heav'n assist, and Phæbus hear my call. Dryd. any way belong unto us. Sidney. Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Pope. 5. To pass along by silent and unob 2. Not important; not cogent; weak. served progression: Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight Thou shalt Hate all, shew charity to none; grounds, some upon no grounds, and some con Locke, But let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone, trary to appearance. Ere thou relieve the beggar. Shakspeare. 3. Negligent; not vehement; not done Then no day void of bliss, of pleasure, leaving, with effort. Ages shall sliže away without perceiving. Dryd. The shaking of the head is a gesture of slight Rescue me from their ignoble hands: refusal. Bacan. Let me kiss yours when you my wound begin, He in contempt Then easy ceath will slide with pleasure in. At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound. Dryden. Milion. Their eye slides over the pages, or the words 4. Foplish; weak of mind. in the porcs. gone o'er, 3. To : a cere. Nobeast ever was so slight For man, as for his God, to fight. Hudibras. 5. Not strong; thin: as, a slight silk. SLIGHT, n. s. [from the adjective.] 1. Neglect; contempt ; act of scorn. People in misfortune construe unavoidable accidents into slights or neglects. Clarissa. 2. Artifice; cunning practice. See SLEIGHT. As boisterous a thing as force is, it rarely achieves any thing but under the conduct of fraud. Slibt of hand has done that, which force of hand could never do. South. After Nic had bambouzled John a while, what with slight of hand, and taking from his own score, and adding to Sohn's, Nic brought the balance to his own side. Arbuthnot. To SLIGHT, v. a. (from the adjective.] 1. To neglect; to disregard. Beware Lest they transgress and slight that sole command. Milton. You cannot expect your son should have any regard for one whom he sees you slight. Locke. 2. To throw carelessly : unless in this passage to slight be the same with to sling. The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned puppies. Sbakspeare. 3. (slighten, Dutch.] To overthrow; to demolish. Junius. Skinner. Ainsworth. 4. TO SLIGHT over. To treat or perform carelessly. These men, when they have promised great matters, and failed most shamefully, if they have the perfection of boldness, will' but slight and no more ado. Bacon. His death and your deliverance Were themes that ought not to be slighted over. Dryden. SLIGHTER. 1. s. [from slight.] One who disregards. SLI'GHTINGLY. adv. [from slighting.] Without reverence ; with contempt. If my sceptick speaks slightingly of the opinions he opposes, I have done no more than became the part. Boyle. SLI'GHTLY. adv. [from slight.] 1. Negligently; without regard. Words, both because they are common, and do not so strongly move the fancy of man, are for the most part but slightly heard. Hooker. Leave nothing fitting for the purpose Untouch'd, or sligbtly handled in discourse. Sbakspeare. You were to blame To part so slightly with your wife's first gift. Slakspeare. The letter-writer dissembles his knowledge of this restriction, and contents himself slightly to mention it towards the close of his pamphler. Atterbury. 2. Scornfully : contemptuously. Long had the Gallick monarch, uncontrould, Enlarg'd his borders, and of human force Opponent sligbtly thought. Pbilips. 3. Weakly; without force. Scorn not The facile gates of hell, too slightly barr’d. Milt. 4. Without worth. SU'GHTNESS. n. s. [from slight.] 1. Weakness; want of strength. 2. Negligence; want of attention ; want of vehemence. Where gentry, title, wisdom, Shakspeare. What strong cries must they be that shall drown so loud a clamour of impieties! and how does it reproach the slightness of our sleepy heartless addresses! Decay of Piety. Sli'lY. adv. [from sly.) Cunningly; with cunning secrecy; with subtile covertness. Were there a serpent scen with forked congue, That slily glided towards your majesty, It were but necessary you were wak’d. Sbaksp. He, closely false and stily wise, Cast how he might annoy them most from far. Fairfax. Satan, like a cunning pick-lock, slily robs us · of our grand treasure. Decay of Picty. With this he did a herd of goats controul, Which by the way he met, and slily stole; Clad like a country swain. Dryder. May hypocrites, That slily speak one thing, another think, Hateful as hell, pleas'd with the relish weak, Drink on unwarn'd, till by inchanting cups Infatuate, they their wily thoughts disclose, And through intemperance grow a while sire Pbilips. SLIM. adv. sa cant word as it seems, and therefore not to be used.] Slender; thin of shape. A chin slim-gutted fox made a hard shift to wriggle his body into a henroost; and when he had stuft his guts well, squeezed hard to get out again; but the hole was too little. L'Estrange: I was jogged on the elbow by a slim young girl of seventeen. Addison, SLIME. n.s. [slım, Saxon ; sligm, Dutch.] Viscous mire ; any glutinous substance. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Sbakspeare. Brick for stone, and slime for mortar. Genesis. God, out of his goodness, caused the wind to blow, to dry up the abundant slime and mud of the earth, and make the land more firm, and to cleanse the air of thick vapours and unwholesome mists. Raleigh. Some plants grow upon the top of the sea, from some concretion of slime where the sun beateth hot, and the sea stirreth little. Bacon, And with asphaltick slime, broad as the gate, Deep to the roots of heil, the gather'd beach They fasten'd. Milton Now dragon grown; larger than whom the sun Engender'd in the Pythian vale on slime, Huge Python! Milton, O foul descent! I'm now constrain'd Into a beast, to mix with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. SLI'MINESS. n. s. 1. s. [from slimy.] Viscosity; glutinous matter. By a weak fermentation a pendulous slimines is produced, which answers a pituitous state. Floyer Sli'my. adj. [from slime.] I. Overspread with slime. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony. Slaksp. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes, Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, it over, the top Slink away. thing I could ! 'As't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, Cænus I saw amidst the shouts That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, Of mariners, and busy care to sling And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd His horses soon ashore. Drydene Sbakspeare. They slung up one of their largest hogsheads, Gulliver. SLI'NGER, n. s. [from sling.] One who And in their father's slimy track they tread. slings or uses the sling: Dryden. The slingers went about it and smote it. 2 Kings. Sax. to creep.] To sneak; to steal out of the In the sleek rind. Pbilips. way. We will slink away in supper time, disguise us Thomson. As we do turn our backs 2. Viscous; glutinous. From our companion, thrown into his grave, Then both froin out hell gates, into the waste, So his familiars from his buried fortunes Wide anarchy of chaos, damp and dark, Sbakspeare Hovering upon the waters, what they met He, after Eve seduc'd, unminded slunk Solid or slimy, as in raging sea, Into the wood fast by. Milton, Not far from hence doth dwell Tost up and down, together crowded drove. Milton. A cunning man, hight Sidrophel, The astrological undertakers would raise men To whom all people far and near like vegetables, out of some fat and slimy soil, On deep importances repair; well digested by the kindly heat of the sun, and When brass and pewter hap to stray, And linen slinks out of the way. impregnated with the influence of the stars. Hudibras, She slunk into a corner, where she lay trem. bling till the company went their way.. L'Estr. .SLI'NESS. N. s. [from sly.] Designing ar- He would pinch the children in the dark, and tifice. then slink into a corner, as if nobody had done By an excellent ficulty in mimickry, my cor it. Arbuthnot. Addison. But having amply stuff'd his skin, Pope. We have a suspicious, fearful, and constrained 1. A missive weapon made by a strap and countenance, often turning back, and slinking two strings; the stone is lodged in the through narrow lanes. Swift. strap, and thrown by loosing one of the TO SLINK. v. a. To cast; to miscarry of. strings. A low word. The arrow cannot make him filee: sling stones To prevent a mare's slinking her foal, in snowy are turned with him into stubble. Job. weather keep her where she may have good Dreads he the twanging of the archer's string? spring-water to drink. Mortimer, Or singing stones from the Phænician sling? To SLIP. v. n. [slipan, Sax. slippen, Dut.] Sandys. Slings have so much greater swiftness than a 1. To slide; not to tread firm. stone thrown from the hand, by how much the If a man walks over a narrow bridge when he end of the sling is farther off from the shoulder is drunk, it is no wonder that he forgets his cau Wilkins. joint, the center of motion. tion while he overlooks his danger; but he who The Tuscan king is sober, and views that nice separation between Laid by the lance, and took him to the sling; himself and the devouring deep, so that, if he Thrice whirl'd the thong around his head, and should slip, he sees his grave gaping under him, surely must needs take every step with horrour South. A skilful dancer on the ropes slips willingly, and makes a seeming stumble, that you may Dryder. So flew the beast. think him in great hazard, while he is only give ing you a proof of his dexterity. Dryden. 8. A throw ; a stroke. If after some distinguish'd leap He drops his pole, and seems to slip, Straight gath'ring all his active strength, 2. To slide; to glide. Milton. Oh Ladon, happy Ladon! rather slide than 3. A kind of hanging bandage, in which a run by her, lest thou shouldst make her legs wounded limb is sustained. Sidney. They trim their feathers, which makes them TO SLING. v. a. (from the noun.] oily and slippery, that the water may slip off 1. To throw by a sling. them. Mortimer. 2. To throw; to cast. Not very proper. 3. To move or fly out of place. Ærna's entrails fraught with fire, Sometimes the ancle bone is apt to turn out That now casts out dark fumes and pitchy clouds, on either side, by reason of relaxation, which Incens'd, or tears up mountains by the roots, though you reduce, yet, upon the least walking Or slings a broken rock aloft in air. Addison. on it, the bone slips out again. Wiseman. 3. To bang loosely by a string. 4. To sneak; to slink. Soon as appear'd safe opportunity. Spenser. Prior. slip from her. ed. When Judas saw that his host slipt away, he their discourse, and not to slip any opportunity was sore troubled. 1 Maccabees. of shewing their talents, scholars are most blamI'll slip down out of my lodging. Dryden. Locke. Thus one tradesman slips away, Thus far my author has slipt his first design; To give his partner fairer play, Prior. not a letter of what has been yet said promoting s. To glide; to pass unexpectedly or im any ways the trial. Atterbury perceptibly. 3. To part twigs from the main body by The banks of either side seeming arms of the laceration. loving earth, that fain would embrace it, and The runners spread from the master-roots, the river a wanton nymph, which still would slip and have little sprouts or roots to them, which, from it. Sidney. being cut four or five inches long, make excelThe blessing of the Lord shall slip from thee lent sets; the branches also may be slipped and without doing thee any good, if thou hast not planted. Mortimer. ceased from doing evil. Taylor. This bird you aim'd at, though you hit it not. Among the gravest rabbies disputant, -Oh, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyOn points and questions fitting Moses' chair. hound, Milton. Which runs himself, and catches for his master. Thrice around his neck his arms he threw, Sbakspeare, On Eryx altars lays A lamb new fallen to the stormy seas; Though with pale cheeks, wet beard, and Then slips his haulsers, and his anchors weighs. dropping hair, Dryden. None but my Ceyx could appear so fair, 6. To let a dog loose. I would have strain'd him with a strict embrace, The impatient greyhound, slipt from far, But through my arms he slipt, and vanish'd from Bounds o'er the glebe to course the fearful hare. the place. Dryden. Dryden. When a corn slips out of their paws, they take 7. To throw off any thing that holds one. hold of it again. Spectator. Forced to alight, my horse slipped his bridle, Wise men watch every opportunity, and re and ran away. Swift. trieve every mispent hour which has slipped from them. Rogers. 8. To pass over negligently. I will impute no defect to those two years If our author gives us a list of his doctrines, with what reason can that about indulgences be which have slipped by since. Swift to Pope. 6. To fall into fault or errour. slipped over? Atterbury. If he had been as you, SLIP.n. s. [from the verb.] 1. The act of slipping: false step. And you as he, you would have slipt like him; But he, like you, would not have been so stern. 2. Errour; mistake; fault. Sbakspeare. There put on bim One slippeth in his speech, but not from his What forgeries you please: marry, none so rank heart. Ecclesiasticus. As may dishonour him; An eloquent man is known far and near; but But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips, a man of understanding knoweth when he slip- As are most known to youth and liberty. Sbaks, peth. Ecclesiasticus. Of the promise there made, our master hath 7. To creep by oversight. failed us, by slip of memory, or injury of time. Some mistakes may have slipt into it; but Wotton, others will be prevented. Pope. This religious affection, which nature has iin8. To escape; to fall away out of the planted in man, would be the most enormous slip she could commit. More. memory. One casual slip is enough to weigh down the By the hearer it is still presumed, that if they faithful service of a long life. L'Estrange, be let slip for the present, what good soever they Alonzo, mark the characters; contain is lost, and that without all hope of re And if th' impastor's pen have made a slip covery. Hooker. That shews it counterfeit, mark that, and save The mathematician proceeds upon propesi Drydens rions he has once demonstrated; and though the Lighting upon a very easy slip I have made, demonstration may have slipt out of his memo in putting one seemingly indifferent word for anry, he builds upon the truth. Addison, other, that discovery opened to me this present Use the most proper methods to retain the view. Locke. ideas you have acquired; for the mind is ready Any little slip is more conspicuous in a good to let many of them slip, unless some pains be man's conduct than in another's, as it is not of taken to fix them upon the memory. Watts. Spectator. TO SLIP, v. a. 3. A twig torn from the main stock. 1. To convey secretly. In truth, they are fewer, when they come to In his officious attendance upon his mistress be discussed by reason, than otherwise they be tried to slip a powder into her drink. Arbuth. seem, when, by heat of contention, they are di'2. To lose by negligence. vided into many slips, and of every branch an You are not now to think what's best to do, heap is made. Hooker. As in beginnings; but what must be done, The slips of their vines have been brought into Being thus enter'd; and slip no advantage Spain. Abbot. That may secure you. Ben Jonson. Adoption strives with nature, and choice breeds Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn A native slip to us from foreign seeds. Sbaksp. Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Milton. Thy mother took into her blameful bed One ill man may not think of the mischief he Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock could do, or slip the occasion. L'Estrange. Was graft with crab-tree slip, whose fruit thou To slip the market, when thus fairly offered, Shakspeare. is great imprudence. Collier. Trees are apparelled with flowers or herbs by For watching occasions to correct others in boring holes in their bodies, and putting into nie. art. bowels stippery. Sbakspeare. that them carth holpen with muck, and setting seeds The schirrus may be distinguished by its want or slips of violets in the carth. Bacon. of inflammation in the skin, its smoothness, and So have I seen some tender slip, slipperiness deep in the breast. Sharp Sav'd with care from winter's nip, 2. Uncertainty ; want of firm footing.. The pride of her carnation train, Pluck'd up by some unheedy swain. Milton, Sli'PPERY. adj. [rlipur, Saxon; sliperig, They are propagated not only by the seed, Swedish.] but many also by the root, and some by slips or 1. Smooth; glib. cutties. Ray. They trim their feathers, which makes them 4. A leash or string in which a dog is oily and slippery, that the water slips off. held, from its being so made as to slip Mortimer. or become loose by relaxation of the Oily substances only lubricate and make the Arbuthnol, hand. 2. Not affording firm footing, Did you know the ait o'th' court, As hard to leave as keep; whose top to climb, Is certain failing; or so slipp'ry, but not operatively, nor effectively; as he who The fear 's as bad as falling. Shaksprare. only letsóloose a greyhound out of the slip, is said to hound him at the hare. Bramball. His promise to trust to as slippery as ice. Tusser. 5. An escape; a desertion. I know not Their way shall be as slippery ways in the whether to give the slip be not originally darkness. Jeremiab. taken from a dog, that runs and leaves The slipp'ry tops of human state, the string or slip in the leader's hand. The gilded sinnacles of fate. Coreley. The more shame for her goodyship, The higher they are raised, the giddier they To give so near a friend the slip. Hudibras. are; the more slippery is their standing, and the The daw did not like his companion, and gave deeper their fall. L'Estrange hin the slip, and away into the woods. L’Esir. The highest hill is the most slipp'ry place; Their explications are not yours, and will give And fortune mocks us with a smiling face. Denba you the slip. Locke. Beauty, like re, our footing does betray; 6. A long narrow picce. Who can tread surcon the smooth slippery way? Between these eastern and western mountains Dryder kes a slip of lower ground, which runs across 3. Hard to hold ; hard to keep. the island. Addison. Thus surely bound, yet be not overbold, SL’PBOARD. n. s. [slip and board.] A The slippery god will try to loose his hold; And various forms assume, to cheat thy sight, board sliding in grooves, And with vain images of beasts affright. Dryd, I ventured to draw back the slipboard on the rouf, contrived on purpose to let in air. 4. Not standing firm. Gulliver's Travels, When they fall, as being slipp'ry standers, The love that lean’d on them, as slipp'ry too, SLIPKNOT. 11. s. [slip and knot.] A bow. Doth one pluck down another, and together knot; a knot easily untied. Die in the fast. Sbakspeare. They draw off so much line as is necessary, 5. Uncertain ; changeable ; mutable; inand fasten the rest upon the line-roll with a slip stable. knot, that no more line turn off. MIx0n1. In large wounds a single knot first; over this a Oh world, thy slippery turns! Friends 10% fast sworn, Hittle linen compress, on which is another single Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, inot; and then a slipknot, which may be loosen Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and căed upon infiammation. Sbarp. ercise, Slipper or Slipshce. n. s. [from slip.] Are still together; who twine, as't were, in lore 1. A shoe without leather behind, into Unseparable, shall within this bour, which the foot slips easily. On a dissension of a doit, break out A gown made of the finest wool, To bicterest enmity. Sbakspeare. Which from our pretty lambs we pull; He looking down Fair lined slippers for the cold, With scorn or pity, on the slippery state With buckles of the purest gold. Raleigh. Of kings, will tread upon the reck of fate. If he went abroad too much, she'd use Denb.me To give him slippers, and lock up his shoes. King. 6. Not certain in its effect. Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock'd the One sure trick is better than a hundred slipe ground, pery ones. L'Estrange. And the press'd watch return'd a silver sound. 7. [lubrique, French.] Not chaste. My wife is slippery. Sbakspeare 2. (crespis, Latin.] An herb. Sli'ppy. adj. (trom slip.] Slippery ; SLI'PPER. adj. [rlipun, Sax.] Slippery; easily sliding. A barbarous provincial not firm. Obsolete. Perhaps never in word. use but for poetical convenience. The white of an egg is ropy, slippy, and nu A trustless state of earthly things, and slipper tritious. hope Of mortal men, that swinke and sweat for nought. SlipskoD. adj. [slip and shod.] Having Spenser. the shoes not pulled up at the heels, but SLIPPERILY. adv. (from slippery.) In a barely slipped on slippery manner. The'slipshod 'prentice from his master's door Sli'PPERINESS. n. s. [from slippery.] Had par'd the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor, Swift, 1. State or quality of being slippery ; SLI'PSLOP. n. s. Bad liquor. A low word smoothness; glibness. formed by reduplication of slop. We do not only fall by the slipperiness of our tongues, but we deliberately discipline them to SLISH. n. s. A low word formed by redu. mischieti Government of the Congue. plicating slash. Pope. Floyer. |