Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SLUGGARD

SLUG'GARD, noun [from slug and ard, slow kind.] A person habitually lazy, idle and inactive; a drone.SLUG'GARD, adjective Sluggish; lazy.

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SLUGGARDIZE

SLUG'GARDIZE, verb transitive To make lazy. [Little used.]

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SLUGGISH

SLUG'GISH, adjective1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as a sluggish man.2.Slow; having little motion; as a sluggish river or stream.3. Inert; inactive; havi...

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SLUGGISHLY

SLUG'GISHLY, adverb Lazily; slothfully; drowsily; idly; slowly.

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SLUGGISHNESS

SLUG'GISHNESS, noun1. Natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dullness; applied to persons.2.Inertness; want of power to move; applied to inanimate matter.3. Slowness;...

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SLUGGY

SLUG'GY, adjective Sluggish [Not in use.]

2977

SLUICE

SLUICE, SLUSE, noun [Latin claudo, clausi, clausus; Low Latin exclusa. The most correct orthography is sluse.]1. The stream of water issuing through a flood-gate; or the gate it...

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SLUICY

SLUICY, SLU'SY, adjective Falling in streams as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descent of sluicy rain.

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SLUMBER

SLUM'BER, verb intransitive1. To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalms 121:4.2. To sleep. slumber is used as synonymous with slee...

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SLUMBERER

SLUM'BERER, noun One that slumbers.

2981

SLUMBERING

SLUM'BERING, participle present tense Dozing; sleeping.

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SLUMBERY

SLUM'BEROUS, SLUM'BERY, adjective1. Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. While pensive in the slumberous shade2. Sleep; not waking.

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SLUMP

SLUMP, verb intransitive To fall or sink suddenly into water or mud, when walking on a hard surface, as on ice or frozed ground, not strong enough to bear the person. [This legi...

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SLUNG

SLUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of sling.

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SLUNK

SLUNK, preterit tense and participle passive of slink.

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SLUR

SLUR, verb transitive1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.2. To pass lightly; to conceal. With periods, points and tropes he slurs his crimes.3. To cheat; to trick....

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SLUSE

SLUSE, a more correct orthography of sluice.

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SLUSH

SLUSH, noun Soft mud, or a soft mixture of filthy substances. [This may be the Eng. slutch.]

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SLUSY

SLUICY, SLU'SY, adjective Falling in streams as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descent of sluicy rain.

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SLUT

SLUT, noun1. A woman who is negligent of cleanliness, and who suffers her person, clothes, funiture, etc., to be dirty or in disorder.2. A name of slight contempt for a woman.

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SLUTTERY

SLUT'TERY, noun The qualities of a slut; more generally, the practice of a slut; neglect of cleanliness and order; dirtiness of clothes, rooms, furniture or provisions.

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SLUTTISH

SLUT'TISH, adjective1. Not neat or cleanly; dirty; careless of dress and neatness; disorderly; as a sluttish woman.2. Disorderly; dirty; as a sluttish dress.3. Meretricious. [Li...

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SLUTTISHLY

SLUT'TISHLY, adverb In a sluttish manner; negligently; dirtily.

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SLUTTISHNESS

SLUT'TISHNESS, noun The qualities or practice of a slut; negligence of dress; dirtiness of dress, furniture and in domestic affairs generally.

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SLY

SLY, adjective1. Artfully dextrous in performing things secretly, and escaping observation or detection; usually implying some degree of meanness; artfully cunning; applied to p...

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SLYLY

SLYLY, SLYNESS. [See Slily, Sliness.]

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SLYNESS

SLYLY, SLYNESS [See Slily, Sliness.]