SLOPSELLER
SLOP'SELLER, noun A shop where ready made clothes are sold.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SLOT
SLOT, verb transitive To shut with violence; to slam, that is to drive. [Not in use.]SLOT, noun A broad flat wooden bar.SLOT, noun The track of a deer.
SLOTH
SLOTH, noun1. Slowness; tardiness I abhor this dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.2. Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. They change their course...
SLOTHFUL
SLOTH'FUL, adjective Inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He that is slothful in his work, is brother to him that is a great waster. Proverbs 18:9.
SLOTHFULLY
SLOTH'FULLY, adverb Lazily; sluggish; idly.
SLOTHFULNESS
SLOTH'FULNESS, noun The indulgence of sloth; inactivity; the habit of idleness; laziness. slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. Proverbs 19:15.
SLOTTERY
SLOT'TERY, adjective1. Squalid; dirty; sluttish untrimmed. [Not in use.]2. Foul; wet. [Not in use.]
SLOUCH
SLOUCH, noun [This word probably belongs to the root of lag, slug.]1. A hanging down; a depression of the head or of some other part of the body, an ungainly clownish gait.2. An...
SLOUCHING
SLOUCH'ING, participle present tense1. Causing to hang down.2.adjective Hanging down; walking heavily and awkwardly.
SLOUGH
SLOUGH, noun slou.1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.2. [pron. sluff.] The skin or cast skin of a serpent. [Its use for the skin in general, in Shakespeare, is ...
SLOUGHLY
SLOUGHLY, adjective slou'y. Full of sloughs; miry.
SLOVEN
SLOVEN, noun A man careless of his dress, or negligent of cleanliness; a man habitually negligent of neatness and order.
SLOVENLINESS
SLOVENLINESS, noun [from sloven.]1. Negligence of dress; habitual want of cleanliness.2. Neglect of order and neatness.
SLOVENLY
SLOVENLY, adjective1. Negligent of dress or neatness; as a slowenly man.2. Loose; disorderly; not neat; as a slovenly dress.SLOVENLY, adverb In a careless, inelegant manner.
SLOVENRY
SLOVENRY, noun Negligence of order or neatness; dirtiness. [Not in use.]
SLOW
SLOW, adjective1. Moving a small distance in a long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; as a slow stream; a slow motion.2. Late; not happening in short time. These ...
SLOW-WORM
SLOW-WORM, SLOE-WORM, noun An insect found on the leaves of the sloe-tree, which often changes its skin and assumes different colors. It changes into a four winged fly.SLOW-WORM...
SLOWBACK
SLOW'BACK, noun A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.
SLOWLY
SLOWLY, adverb1. With moderate motion; not rapidly; not with velocity or celerity; as, to walk slowly2. Not soon; not early; not in a little time; not with hasty advance; as a c...
SLOWNESS
SLOWNESS, noun1. Moderate motion; want of speed or velocity. Swifness and slowness are relative ideas.2. Tardy advance; moderate progression; as the slowness of an operation; sl...
SLUBBER
SLUB'BER, verb transitive To do lazily, imperfectly or coarsely; to daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. [Little used and vulgar.]
SLUBBERINGLY
SLUB'BERINGLY, adverb In a sloenly manner, [Not used and vulgar.]
SLUDGE
SLUDGE, noun Mud; mire; soft mud.
SLUDS
SLUDS, noun Among miners, half roasted ore.
SLUE
SLUE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to turn any thing conical or cylindrical, _ c. about its axis without removing it; to turn.
SLUG
SLUG, noun [allied to slack, sluggard.]1. A drone; a slow, heavy, lazy fellow.2. A hinderance; obstruction.3. A kind of snail, very destructive to plants, of the genus Limax. It...
SLUGABED
SLUG'ABED, noun One who indulges in lying abed. [Not in use.]