L'Estranger What! this a sleeve? and slees in them, and they will furnish ron, Here's saip and nip, and slish and slash, without doing of your woods any hurt. Ahort. Like to a censor in a barber's shop. Sbakspeare, SLOOP. 1. s. A small ship, commonly TO SLIT. v. a. pret. and part. slit and with only two masts. slitted. [rlitan, Saxon.) To cut long. To S1.OP. v. a. (from lap, 10%, slop.] To wise. To make plants medicinable, slit the root, and drink grossly and greedily. infuse into it the medicine, as hellebore, opium, SLOP. n. s. [from the verb.] Mean and scammonly, and then bind it up. Bacon. vile liquor of any kind. Generally solfe The deers of Arginusa had their ears divided, nauseous or useless medicinal liquor, occasioned at first by slitting the ears. Brown. The sick husband here wanted for neither Had it hit slops nor doctors. The unper part of him, the blow But thou, whatever slops she will have bought, Hd slit, as sure as that below. Hudibras. Be thankful. Dryders We slit the preternatural body osen. Wi9m. SLOP. n. s. [rlop, Saxon ; sloove, Dutch, A liberty might be left to the judges to inflict a covering. 1 Trowsers ; open breeche. death, or some notorious mark, by slitting the What said Mr. Dumbledon about the satria nose, or brands upon the cheeks. Terple. If a tinned or placed boly, wlich, being of an for my short cloak and slops?? Sbakspeures even thickness, appears all over of an uniform SLOPE. adj. [This word is not derived colour, should be slit into threads, or broken from any satisfactory original. Javills into fragments of the same thickness with the omits it : Skinner derives it from slup plate, I see no reason why every thread or fragment should not keep its colour. Vereton. lax, Ditch; and derives it froin the He took a freak curve of a loose rope. Perhaps its oriTo slit my tongue, and make me speak. Swift. ginal may be latent in loopen, Dutch, ta S!!T. n. s. [rlit, Saxon.] A long cut, or run, slope being easy to the runner. narrow opening: Oblique; not perpendicular. It is geIn St. James's fields is a conduit of brick, unto nerally used of acclivity or declivity, which joinith a low vault, and at the end of that forining an angle greater or less with a round house of stone; and in the brick conduit there is a window, and in the round house the plane of the horizon. Where there is a greater quantity of water, a slit or rift of some little breadth: if you cry out in the rift, it will make a fearful roaring at and space enough, the water movech witla á the window. Bacon. Bacon Where the tender rinds of trees disclose Murm'ring waters fall Their shooting gems,a swelling knot there grows: Down the slope hills, dispers’d, or in a lake, Juse in that place a narrow slit we make, That to the fringed bank with myrcle crown'd Then other buds from bearing trees we take; Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams. Milior. Inserted thus, the wounded rind we close. Dryd. I found, by looking through a slit or oblong SLOPE. 1. s. (from the adjective.] hole, which was narrower than the pupil of my 1. An oblique direction; any thing obeye, and held close to it parallel to the prisms, liquely directed. I could see the circles much distincter, and vi 2. Declivity; ground cut or formed with sible to a far greater number, than otherwise. Newton. declivity. TO SLIVE. } v. a. [slışan, Saxon.] Growing upon slopes is caused for that most, as it cometh of moisture, so the water must but TOSLI'VERS To split; to divide slide, not be in a pool. Bacon. longwise ; to tear off longwise. My lord advances with majestick mien, Liver of blaspheming Jew; And when up ten steep slopes you've dragg'd Gall of goat; and slips of yew, your thighs, Slicer'd in the moon's eclipse. Sbakspeare. Just at his study door he 'll bless your eyes. Pope. SLI'VER. n. s. [from the verb.). A branch Slope, adv. Obliquely; not perpendi. torn.off. Sliver, in Scotland, still denotes a slice cut off : as, he took a large cularly. Uriel sliter of the beef. Return'd on that bright beam, whose point now There on the pendant boughs her coronet rais d weed Bore him slope downward to the sun, now fallin. Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, Miltox. When down her weedy coronet and herself To Stope. v.a. [from the adjective.) To Fill in the weeping brook. Sbakspeare. form to obliquity or declivity; to direct der pieces which keep the bottom toge obliquely: Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees ther. Bailey: blown down, SLO'BBER. n. s. [glavoerio, Welsh.] Though palaces and pyramids do slopes Slarer. See SLAVER. Their heads to their foundations. Sbakspeare. To SLOCK. V. n. (slock, to quench, Swe. On each hand the flames dish and Scottish.] To slake; to Driy'n backward, slope their pointed spires, and rollid quench. In billows, leave i'th'midst a horrid vale. Milten. SLOE, 11. s. [sla, Saxon; slaae, Danish.] The star, that rose at evening bright, The fruit of the blackthorn, a small wild Toward heav'n's descent had slop'd his westerplum. Milton. The fair pomegranate might adorn the pine, All night I slept, oblivious of my pain ; The grape the bramble, and the sloe the vine. Aurora dawn'd, and Phabis shin'd in vain; Blackmore. Nor, till oblique he shabu his evening ray, When you fell your underwoods, sow haws Hiad Soinnus dry'd the baluy dews away. Paper } ing wheel not the a TO SLOPE. v. n. To take an oblique or To vice industrious; but to nobler deeds declivous direction. Timorous and slothful. Milton. Betwixt the midst and these, the gods assign'd Flora commands those nymphs and knights, Two habitable seats for human kind; Who liv'd in slothful ease and loose delights, And cross their limits cut a sloping way, Who never acts of honour durst pursue, Which the twelve signs in beauteous order sway. The men inglorious knights, the ladies all untrue. Dryden. Dryden. There is a handsome work of piles made stop The very soul of the slothful does effectually ing athwart the river, to stop the trees which but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man are cut down. and cast into the river. Brown. is totally given up to his senses. L'Estranga Up starts a palace, lo! th'obedient base Another is deaf to all the motives to piety,by Slopes at its foot, the woods its sides embrace. indulging an idle slothful temper. Lare, Pope. SLO'THFULLY. adv. [from slothful.] There is a straight hole in every ant's nest Idly ; lazily; with sloth. half an inch deep; and then it goes down sloping SLO'THFULNESS. n. s. [from slothful.] into a place where they have their magazine. Spectator. Idleness; laziness; sluggishness; inace On the south aspect of a sloping hill, tivity. Whose skirts meand'ring Peneus washes still, To trust to labour without prayer, argueth Our pious lab'rer pass'd his youthful days impiety and profaneness; it maketh light of the In peace and charity, in pray'r and praise: Harte. providence of God; and although it SlO'PENESS. n.s. [from slope.] Obliquity; intent of a religious mind, yet it is the fault of those men whose religion wanteth light of a declivity; not perpendicularity. mature judgment to direct it, when we join The Italians give the cover a graceful pendence with our prayer slothfulness, and neglect of conof slopeness, dividing the whole breadth into nine venient labour. Hooker. parts, whereof two shall serve for the elevation Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an of the highest ridge. Wotton. idle soul shall suffer hunger. Proverbs. SLO'Pewise. adj. [slope and wise.] Ob- Slouch. n. so (sloff, Danish, stupid.] liquely; not perpendicularly. 1. A downcast look; a depression of the The Wear is a frith,reaching slopewise through head. In Scotland, an ungainly gait, as the Ose from the land to low-water mark, and having in it a bent or cod with an eye-hook ; also the person whose gait it is. where the fish entering, upon their coming back Our doctor has every quality that can make a with the ebb, are stopped from issuing out again, man useful; but, alas! he hath a sort of slowcb in his walk. forsaken by the water, and left dry on the Ose. Swift. Carew. 2. A man who looks heavy and clownish. SLO'PINGLY. adv. [from sloping.] Ob. Begin thy carols then, thou vaunting slouch; Be thine the oaken staff, or mine the pouch. liquely; not perpendicularly. Gay. These atoms do not descend always perpendi- T. SLOUCH. v. n. (from the noun.] To cularly, but sometimes slopingly. Digby. have a downcast clownish look. SLO'ppy. adj. [from slop:] Miry and SLO‘VEN. *. s. [sloef, Dutch ; yslyvn, wet : perhaps rather slabby. See ŚLAB. Welsh, nasty, shabby.] A man indeTO SLOT, v. a. [slugben, Dutch.] To cently negligent of cleanliness ; a man strike or clash hard. dirtily dressed. Slot. n. s. [slod, Islandick.] The track The ministers came to church in handsome of a deer. holiday apparel, and that himself did not think SŁOTH. 11. s. [rlæp8, slepo, Saxon. them bound by the law of God to go like slovens. Hooker. Ir might therefore be not improperly Affect in things about thee cleanliness, written sloath, but that it seems better That all may gladly board thee as a flow'r: to regard the orthography of the primi. Slovens take up their stock of noisomeness tive slow.] Beforehand, and anticipate their last hour. Herb. I. Slowness ; tardiness. You laugh, half beau, half sloven, if I stand; These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor My wig half powder, and all snuff my band. This dilatory sleth and tricks of Rome. Shaks. Pope. 2. Laziness ; sluggishness; idleness. Their methods various, but alike their aim : False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand, The sloven and the fopling are the same. Young. Hog in sloth, fox in stealth. Sbakspeare. SLO'VENLINESS. n. s. [from slovenly.) They change their course to pleasure, ease, Indecent negligence of dress; neglect of and sloth. Milton. cleanliness. And rous'd him from his miserable sloth. Tboms. Slovenliness is the worst sign of a hard stue dent, and civility the best exercise of the re3. An animal. miss; yet not to be exact in the phrase of comThe sloth is an animal of so slow a motion, pliment, or gestures of courtesy. Wotton. that he will be three or four days at least in SLO'VENLY. adj. [from sloven.] Negliclimbing up and coining down a tree; and to go the length of tifry paces on plain ground, requires gent of dress; negligent of neatness; not a whole day. Grew. neat ; not cleanly. SLO'THFUL. adj. [sloth and full.] Idle ; Asop at last found out a slovenly lazy fellow, lolling at his ease, as if he had nothing to do. lazy; sluggish; inactive; indolent; duli L'Estrange. of motion. SLOVENLY. adv. [from sloven.] In a He that is slot!ful in his work, is brother to coarse inelegant manner. him that is a great waster. Proverbs. As I hang my clothes on somewhat slovenly, I The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his no sooner weni in but he frowned upon me. hands refuse to labour, Proverbs, Pope Popa. SLOVENRY, N. s. [from sloven.] Dirti I am slow of speech, and a slow tongue. Exca Mine ear shall not be slow, mine eye not shut. ness; want of neatness. Milton. Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd The slow of speech make in dreams unpremeWith rainy marching in the painful field: There's not a piece of feather in our host, ditated harangues, or converse readily in lanAnd time hath worn us into slovenry. Shaksp. guages that they are but little acquainted with. Addison. SLOUGH, n. s. [rloz, Saxon.] For though in dreadful whirls we hung 1. A deep miry place; a hole full of dirt. High on the broken wave, The Scots were in a fallow field, whereinto I knew thou wert not slow to hear, the English could not enter, but over a cross Nor impotent to save. Addison ditch and a slough ; in passing whereof many of 4. Dull; inactive; tardy ; sluggish. the English horse were plunged, and some Fix'd on defence, the Trojans are not slow mired. Hayward. To guard their shore from an expected foe. The ways being foul, twenty to one Dryden. He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. s. Not hasty ; acting with deliberation ; Milton. A carter had laid his waggon fast in a slough. not vehement. L'Estrange. The Lord is merciful, and slow to anger. Common Prayer. 4. The skin which a serpent casts off at his He that is slow to wrath, is of great underperiodical renovation. standing. Proverbs. Thy fates open their hands, let thy blood and The politick and wise spirit embrace them; and to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slougb, 6. Dull; heavy in wit. Are sly slow things with circumspective eyes.Pope and appear fresh. Sbakspeare. The blockhead is a slotv worm. When the mind is quicken'd, The organs, though defunct and dead before, Slow, in composition, is “an adverb; Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move, slowly. With casted slough and fresh legerity. Shaksp. This slow-pac'd soul, which late did cleave Oh let not sleep my closing eyes invade T'a body, and went but, by the body's leave, Twenty perchance or thirty mile a day, Donne. And in his summer liv'ry rolls along To the shame of slow endeavouring art Erect, and brandishing his forky tongue. Dryd. Thy easy numbers itow, Milton. The slough of an English viper, that is, the This day's death denounc'd, if aught I see, cuticula, they cast off twice every year, at spring Will prove no sudden but a sluzv-pac'd evil, and fall; the separation begins at the head, and A long day's dying to augment our pain. Milton, is finished in twenty-four hours. Grew. For eight slow-circling years by tempests tost. The body, which we leave behind in this visible world, is as the womb or slough from whence we Some demon urg'd issue, and are born into the other. Grer. T'explore the fraud with guile oppos'd to guile, 3. It is used by Shakspeare simply for the Slow-pacing thrice around th' insidious pile. skin. Pope. As the snake, roll'd in a fiow'ry bank, To Slow.v. a. (from the adjective.] To With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a child, omit by dilatoriness; to delay; to pro That for the beauty thinks it excellent. Hen.vi. crastinate. Not in use. The true word 4. The part that separates from a foul sore. was forslow. At the next dressing I found a sough come Now do you know the reason of this haste ? away with the dressings, which was the sordes. I would I knew not why it should be slow'd. Wiscmon. Sbakspeare. TO SLOUGH. v. n. [from the noun]. To Slo'wly. adv. [from slow.) part from the sound flesh. A chirurgical 1. Not speedily; not with celerity ; not term. with velocity: SLO’UGhy. adj. [from slough.] Miry; The gnome rejoicing bears her gift away, boggy; muddy. Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to That custom should not be allowed, of cutting day. scraws in low grounds slougby underneath, which 2. Not soon; not early; not in a litile turn into bog. Szvift. tine. SLOW. adj. [slap, sleap, Saxon ; sleeuww, The poor remnant of human seed peopled Trisick.] their country again slowly, by little and little. Bacon. 1. Not swift ; not quick of motion ; not Our fathers bent their baneful industry speedy; not having velocity; wanting To check a monarchy that slowly grew; celerity. But did not France or Holland's fate foresee, Me thou think'st not slow, Whose rising pow'r to swift dominion flew. Dryd. Who since the morning hour set out from heav'n, We oft our slowly growing works impart, Where God resides, and on mid-day arriv'd While images reflect from art to art. Popes In Eden, distence inexpressible! Milton. Where the motion is so slow as not to supply 3. Not hastily; not rashly: as, he deter: mines slowly. a constant train of fresh ideas to the senses, the sense of motion is lost. Locke. 4. Not promptly ; not readily: as, he 2. Late ; not happening in a short time. learns slowly. These changes in the heav'ns, though slow, s. Tardily ; sluggishly. produc'd The chapel of St. Laurence advances so very Like change on sea and land, sidcreal blast. slowly, that 't is not impossible but the family of Milton. Medicis may be extinct before their burial-place 3. Not ready; not prompt; not quick. i is finished, Addison Popes Pupe. Pope. a SLO'WNESS. n. s. [from slogu.] Fie! what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not! 1. Smallness of motion ; not speed ; want Sbakspeare. 2. An hinderance ; an obstruction. of velocity ; absence of celerity or swift Usury dulls and damps all improvements, ness. wherein money would be stirring, if it were not Providence hath confined these human arts, for this slug Bacon. that what any invention hath in the strength of 3. A kind of slow creeping snail. 4. [rlecz, a hammerhead, Sax.] A cy. is motion, must be allowed for in the great lindrical or oval piece of metal shot from strength that is required unto it. Wilkins. a gun. Motion is the absolute mode of a body, but When fractures are made with bullets or swiftness or slowness are relative ideas. Watts. slugs, there the scalp and cranium are driven in 2. Length of time in which any thing acts together. Wiseman. or is brought to pass ; not quickness. As, forc'd from wind-guns, lead itself can fly, Tyrants use what art they can to increase the And pond'rous slugs cut swiftly thro' the sky. ulowness of death. Hooker. 3. Dulness to admit conviction or affec To SLUG. v. n. (from the noun.] To tion. lie idle; to play the drone ; to move Christ would not heal their infirmities, be. slowly. cause of the hardness and slowness of their All he did was to deceive good knights, hearts, in that they believed him not. Bentley. And draw them from pursuit of praise and fame, 4. Want of promptness ; want of readi To slug in sloth and sensual delights, And end their days with irrenowned shame. ness. Fairy Queen. 5. Deliberation ; cool delay. He lay not all night slugging in a cabin under 6. Dilatoriness; procrastination. his mantle, but used cominonly to keep others SLO'WWORM. n. s. [slapýrm, Saxon.] The waking to defend thcir lives. Spenser. blind worm; 'a large viper, not inortal, One went slugging on with a thousand cares. scarcely venomous. L'Estrange. Though we have found formed snakes in the SLU'GGARD. n. s. [from slug.] An idler; belly of the cæcilia, or slowworm, yet may the a erone; an inactive lazy fellow. viper emphatically bear the name. Brorun. Cry mercy, lords, and watchful gentlemen, TO SLU'BBER. v. a. (probably from lub- That you have ta’en a tardy sluggard here. ber.] Shakspeare. 1. To do any thing lazily, imperfectly, or This nightier sound shall make The dead to rise, And open tombs and open eyes, To the long sluggards of five thousand years. Bassanio told him, he would make some speed Cowley. Of his return: he answer'd, do not so, Up, up, says Avarice; thou snor'st again, Sluhber not business for my sake. Sbakspeare. Sucichest thy limbs, and yawn'st, but all in vain : As they are slublered ever, the malignity that remains will show itself in some chronick dise The tyrant Lucre no denial takes; At his command th' unwilling sluggard wakes. 2. To stain; to daub. [This scems to be Sprightly May commands our youth to keep from slobber, slabber, or slaver.] The vigils of the night, and breaks their sluge You must be content to sluit ber the gloss of gard sleep. Dryden, your new fortunes with this more stubborn and To SLU'GGARDIZE. v.a. [from sluggard.] boisterous expedition. Shakspeare. To make idle; to make dronish. 3. To cover coarsely or carelessly. This Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, is now not in use, otherwise than as a Than, living dully singgardiz'd at home, low colloquial word. Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness, Sbakspeare tionate counsels, smothered under the habit of SLU'GGISH. adj. [from slug.] Dull; a scholar, and stulbered over with a certain rude drowsy; lazy ; slothful; idle; insipid; and clownish fashion, that had the semblance of integrity. Wotton. slow ; inactive; inert. SIU'BBERDEGULLION. . s. [I suppose Sluggish idleness, the nurse of sin, Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride. Fairy Qu. a cant word without derivation.] A "The dull billows, thick as troubled mire, paltry, dirty, sorry wretch. Whom neither wind out of their seat could Quoth she, although thou hast deserv 'd, force, Base slubberdegullion, to be serv'd Nor tides did drive out of their sluggisb source. As thou didst vow to deal with me, Spenser. If thou hadst got the victory. Hudibras. One, bolder than the rest, SLUDGE. ". s. [I suppose from slog, With his broad sword provok'd the sluggisb beast. Walier. slongh, Sax.] Mire; dirt mixed with Matter, being impotent, sluqish, and inacwater. tive, hath no power to stir or move itself. The earth I made a mere soft sludge or mud. Woodward. Mortimer. SLU'GGISHLY. adv. [from sluggish. ] SLUG. 1. s. [slug, Danish, and slock, Dully ; not nimbly ; lazily ; idly; Dutch, signily a glutton, and thence one slowly. that has the sloth of a glutton.] SLU'GGISHNESS, 1. s. [from sluggish.] I. An idler; a drone ; a slow, heavy, Dulness; sloth ; laziness; idleness ; insleepy, lazy, wretch, ertness, ease. Wisco 77. Dryden. noon, } adj. (from slumber.] The most of mankind are inclined by her And, ere he could out of his swoon awake, Thither, if they would take the pains; no less Him to his castle brought. Fairy Queen. than birds to fly, and horses to run: which if To honest a deed after it was done, or to chey lose, it is through their own sluggisbness, slumber his conscience in the doing, he studied and by that means become her prodigies, not her other incentives. Wottun. children. Ben Jonson. SLU'MBER, 1. s. (from the verb.] It is of great moment to teach the mind to 1. Light sleep; sleep not profound. shake off its sluggisbness, and vigorously employ And for his dreams, I wonder he's so fond itself about what reason shall direct. Locke. To trust the mock'ry of unquiet slumbers. SLUICE. n. s. [sluyse, Dutch; escluse, Sbakspeare. Fr. sclusa, Italian.] A watergate; a From carelessness it shall fall into stimur, and from a shomber it shall settle into a deep and floodgate ; a vent for water. long sleep; till at last perhaps it shall sleep ito Two other precious drops, that ready stood Each in their crystal sluice, he, ere they fell, selt into a lethargy, and that such an one, that nothing but hell and judgment shali awaken it. Kiss'd, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse, South, And pious awe, that fear'd to have offended. Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; Milton. Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep. Divine Alpheus, who, by secret sluice, Popes Stole under seas to meet his Arethuse. Milton. If we receive them all, they were more than 2. Sleep, repose: Boy! Lucius! fast asleep? It is no matter; seven; if only the natural sluices, they were fewer. Brown. Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of stumber. Sbaks. As waters from her sluices, flow'd Ev'n lust and envy sleep, but love denies Unbounded sorrow from her eyes. Prior. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes: Each sluice of affiuent fortune open'd soon, Three days I promis d to attend my doom, And wealth flow'd in at morning, night, and And cwo long days and nights are yet to come. Harte. Dryden. SLU'MBEROUS. To SLUICE, v. a. (from the noun.] To SLU’MBERY. emit by floodgates. 1. Inviting to sleep; soporiferous ; causing Like a traitor coward, Sluic'd out his inn'cent soul through streams of sleep. blood. Shakspeare. The timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight, inclines Veins of liquid ore sluic'd from the lake. Our eyelids. Milton Milton. You wrong me, if you think I'll sell one drop While pensive in the silent slumb'rous shade, Within these veins for pageants; but let honour Sleep's gentle pow'rs her drooping eyes invade; Call for my blood, I 'll sluice it into streams; Minerva, life-like, on embodied air Turn fortune loose again to my pursuit, Impress'd the foron of Iphthema. Pope. And let me hunt her through embattled foes, There every eye with slumö'rous chains she bound, In dusty plains; there will I be the first. Dryd. And dash'd the flowing goblets to the ground. Slu'icy. adj. [from sluice.) Falling in Popes streams as from a sluice or floodgate. 2. Sleepy ; not waking. And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain, A great perturbation in nature ! to receive at Suck'd by the spungy clouds from off the main: once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of The lofty skies at once come pouring down, watching: in this slumbery agitation, that have The promis'd crop and golden labours drown. you heard her say? Sbakspeare. Dryden. Saung. The pret. and part. pass. of sling. To SLU’MBER. V. n. [slumeran, Sax. SLUNK. The pret. and part. pass. of slink. slugmeren, Dutch.] Silence accompany'd ; for beast, and bird, 1. To sleep lightly; to be not awake, nor They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, in profound sleep. Were slunk. Milton. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber To SLUR. v. a. [sloorig, Dutch, nasty; nor sleep. Psalms. sloore, a slut.] Conscience wakes despair that slumber'd. Milton. 1. To sully ; to soil; to contaminate. 2. To pass lightly; to balk; to miss. 2. To sleep; to repose. Sleep and slumber The atheists laugh in their sleeves, and not a are often confounded. little triumph, to see the cause of theism thus God speakech, yet man perceiveth it not: in betrayed by its professed friends, and the grand a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep argument slurred by them, and so their work sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon done to their hands. Cudworth. the bed. fub. Studious to please the genius of the times, Have ye chosen this place, With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his After the coil of battle, to repose crimes; Your wearied virtue, for the use you find He robb'd not, but he borrow'd from the poor, To slumber here? Milton. And took but with intention to restore. Dryden. 3. To be in a state of negligence and su 3. To cheat ; to trick. ; pineness. What was the publick faith found out for, Why slumbers Pope, who leads the tuneful But to slur men of what they fought for? train, Hudibras. Nor hears that virtue which he loves complain? Come, seven 's the main, Cries Ganymede: the usual trick: Seven, slur a six; eleven, a nick. Prior. 1. To lay to sleep. SLUR, n. s. (from the verb.] Faint re2. To stupify ; to stun. proach; slight disgrace. Then up he took the slum'er d senseless corse, Here is an ape made a king for shewing VOL. IV, 0 |