Slug (4)
Slug, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Slugged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Slugging (?).] 1. To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.2. To strike heavily.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Slug (5)
Slug, v. i. 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, p...
Slug-horn
Slug″–horn′ (?), a. An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
Slugabed
Slug″a‐bed′ (?), n. One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. “Fie, you slugabed!” Shak.
Sluggard
Slug″gard (?), n. [Slug + -ard.] A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Prov. vi. 6.
Sluggard (2)
Slug″gard, a. Sluggish; lazy. Dryden.
Sluggardize
Slug″gard‐ize (?), v. t. To make lazy. Shak.
Sluggardy
Slug″gard‐y (?), n. [OE. sloggardye.] The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth. Gower.Idleness is rotten sluggardy. Chaucer.
Slugger
Slug″ger (?), n. One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.
Slugging match
Slug″ging match. (a) A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. (b) A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the b...
Sluggish
Slug″gish (?), a. 1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.3. Having no power to move one's...
Sluggy
Slug″gy (?), a. Sluggish. Chaucer.
Slugs
Slugs (?), n. pl.(Mining) Half-roasted ore.
Slugworm
Slug″worm′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain...
Sluice
Sluice (?), n. [OF. escluse, F. écluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.] 1. An artifical pa...
Sluice (2)
Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sluiced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sluicing (?).] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. Milton.2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice mea...
Sluiceway
Sluice″way′ (?), n. An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can ...
Sluicy
Slui′cy (?), a. Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.
Slum
Slum (?), n. [CF. Slump, n.] 1. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retr...
Slum (2)
Slum (?), v. i. To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc.
Slumber
Slum″ber (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Slumbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Slumbering.] [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber...
Slumber (2)
Slum″ber, v. t. 1. To lay to sleep. Wotton.2. To stun; to stupefy. Spenser.
Slumber (3)
Slum″ber, n. Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that pla...
Slumberer
Slum″ber‐er (?), n. One who slumbers; a sleeper.
Slumberingly
Slum″ber‐ing‐ly, adv. In a slumbering manner.
Slumberless
Slum″ber‐less, a. Without slumber; sleepless.
Slumberous
Slum″ber‐ous (?), a. 1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous. “Pensive in the slumberous shade.” Pope.2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.His quiet and almost slumberous...