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SXI'RMISH.n. s.[from us and carm, Welsh, entered into the conquests or commerce of the the shout of war: whence, 3sgarm, and

four great empires; but that which seems to

have secured the other is, the stony and sandy Jsgarmes, old Buitish words. Macs a

desarts, through which no army can pass. naw'sgarmes a wnan, says an ancient

Temples writer. Escarmouche, French.]

Upon the skirts 1. A slight fight; less than a set battle. Of Arragon our squander'd troops he rallies. One battle, yes, a skirmish more there was

Dryden. With adverse fortune fought by Cartismand;

To SKIRT. v. a. (from the noun.] To Her subjects most revolt.

Philips. border; to run along the edge. 2. A contest; a contention.

Temple skirtetb this hundred on the waste There is a kind of merry war betwixt signior

side.

Carew. Benedick and her: they never meet but there's

Of all these bounds, a skirmish of wit.

Sbakspeare.

With shadowy forests and with champaigns These skirmishes expire not with the first pro

richd, pogrers of the opinions: they perhaps began as With plenteous rivers and wide skirted meads, single duellers; but then they soon have their

We make thee lady.

Sbakspeare. partisans and abectors, who not only enhance,

The middle pair but entail the feud to posterity. Decay of Piety.

Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. T. SKI'RMISH. v. n. (escarmoucher, Fr.

Milton, from the noun.) To fight loosely; to

A spacious circuit on the hill there stood,

Level and wide, and skiried round with wood. fight in parties before or after the shock

Addisoki of the main battle.

Dark eypresses the skirtirg sides adorn’d, Ready to charge, and to retire at will;

And gloomy eugh-trees, which for ever mourn'd. Though broken, scatter'd, fled, they skirmish

Harte. still.

Fairfax. SKI'TTISH. adj. [skyc, Danish ; schew, A gentleman volunteer, skirmishing with the

Dutch.] enemy before Worcester, was run through his arm in the middle of the biceps with a sword,

1. Shy ; easily frighted. and shot with a musket-bullet in the same

· A'restiff skittish jade had gotten a trick of shoulder.

Wiseman,

rising, starting, and flying out at her own shadow. I'll pass by the little skirmisbings on either

L'Estrange. side.

Atiertury.

2. Wanton ; volatile; hasty; precipitaic. SKI'RMISHER. n. s. (froin skirnish.] He

Now expectation, tickling skittisb spirits,

Sets all on hazard. who skirmishes.

Slakspeare. Ainsworth.

He still resolu'd, to mend the matter, TO SKIRRE. v. a. [This word seems to be T'adhere and cleave the obstinater;

derived from scir, Saxon, pure, clean ; And, still the skittisher and looser, unless it shall be rather deduced from Her freaks appear’d to sit the closer. Hudibras 6215762x:] To scour; to ramble over in 3. Changeable; fickle. order to clear.

Some men sleep in skittish fortune's hall, Send out more horses, skirre the country

While others play the idiots in her cyes. Sbaksa round;

Such as I am, all true lovers are; Hang those that talk of fcar. Sbakspeare.

Unstaid and skittish in all notions else,
TO SKIRRE. V. n. To scour; to scud ; to

Save in the constant image of the creature
That is belov'd.

Sbakspearea run in haste. We'll make them stirre away as swift as stones

SKI'TTISHLY.adv. [from skittisb.) WanEnforced from the old Assyrian slings. Sbaksp. tonly; uncertainly ; fickly. SKI'RRET. n. s. (sisurum, Lat.] A plant. SKI'TTISHNESS. n. s. [from skittish.] Skirrets are a sort of roots propagated by seed. Wantonness ; fickleness.

Mortimer. SKONCE. n. s. (See Sconce.] SKIRT. n. s. [skiorte, Swedish.]

Reynard ransacketh every corner of his wily 1. The loose edge of a garment; that part skonce, and bestirreth the utmost of his nimble which hangs loose below the waist. stumps to quit his coat from their jaws. Carew.

It's but a nightgown in respect of yours; cloth SKREEN. n. s. [escran, escrein, French, of gold and cuts, side-sleeves and skirts, round which Minsbew derives from secernicu. underborne with a bluish tinsel. Shakspeare. As Samuel turned about to go away, he laid

lum, Latin. Nimis violenter, ut solet, hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

says Skinner, which may be true as to

1 Samuel. one of the senses; but if the first sense 4:

The edge of any part of the dress. of skreen be a kind of coarse sieve or

A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, riddle, it may perhaps come, if not from which runs along the upper part of the stays be- cribrum, from some of the descendanis fore, and crosses the breast, being a part of the of cerno. ) tucker, is called the modesty-piece. Addison.

I. A riddle or coarse sieve. 3. Edge; margin; border; extreme part.

A skuttle or skreen to rid soil fro' the corn. He should seat himself at Athie, upon the

Tusser. skirt of that unquiet country.

Spenser
Ye mists, that rise

2. Any thing by which the sun or weather From bill or steaming lake, dusky or grey,

is kept off. Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, To cheapen fans, or buy a screen. Prior. In honour to the world's great Author rise. Milt.

So long condemn'd to fires and screens, Though I fled him angry, yet recall'd

You dread the waving of these greens. Anon. To life prolong'd, and promis'd race, I now 3. Shelter; concealment, Gladly behold, though but his utmost skirts Fenc'd from day by night's eternal skreen ; Of glóry, and far off his steps adore. Milton. Unknown to heav'n, and to myself unscen. The northern skirts that join to Syria have

Dryden.

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To SKREEN. v. a. [from the noun.]

Raise all thy winds, with night involve the

skies. 1. To riddle ; to sift. A term yet used

Dryden. among masons when they sift sand for 2. The heavens.

The thunderer's bole, you know, mortar.

Sky planted, batters all rebelling coasts. Shaksp. 2. To shade from sun or light, or weather.

What is this knowledge but the sky stol'n fire, 3. To keep off light or weather.

For which the chief still chain'd in ice doth sit? The curtains closely drawn, the light to skreen:

Davies. Thus cover'd with an artificial night,

Wide is the fronting gate, and, rais'd on high, Sleep did his office.

Dryden. With adamantine columns threats the sky. Dryde The waters mounted up into the air: their in

3. The weather; the climate. terposition betwixt the earth and the sun skreen

Thou wert better in thy grave, than to anand fence off the heat, otherwise insuportabie.

swer with thy uncovered body this extremity of Woodward. the skies.

Sbakspeare, 4. To shelter; to protect.

We envy not the warmer clime, that lies Ajax interpos'd

In ten degrees of more indulgent skies; His sevenfold shield, and skreen'd Laertes' son, Nor at the coarseness of our heav'n repine, When the insulting Trojans urg'd him sore. Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleïades shine. Philips.

Addison. He that travels with them is to skreen them, Sky'ey.adj. [from sky. Not very elegantly and get them out when they have run themselves into the briars.

Locke.
formed.] Ethereal.

A breach thou art,
His majesty encouraged his subjects to make
mouths at their betters, and afterwards skreered

Servile to all the skyey influences, them from punishment.

Spectator.

That do this habitation, where thou keep'st, The scales, of which the scarf-skin is com

Hourly allict.

Sbakspeare. posed, are designed to fence the orifices of the

SXY'COLOUR. n. s. [sky and colour.] An secretory ducts of the miliary glands, and to azure colour; the colour of the sky. skreen the nerves from external injuries. Cheyre.

A solution as clear as water, with only a light SKUE, adj. (Of this word there is found

touch of skycolour, but nothing near so high as no satisfactory derivation.] Oblique ;

the ceruleous tincture of silver. Boyle. sidelong. It is most used in the adverb Sky'COLOURED. adj. [sky and colour.]

Blue ; azure ; like the sky. askue. Several have imagined that this skue posture

This your Ovid himself has hinted, when he

tells us that the blue water-nymphs are dressed of the axis is a most unfortunate thing; and that

in skycoloured garments.

Addison. if the poles had been erect to the plane of the ecliptick, all mankind would have enjoyed a very

SKY'OYED. adj. [sky and dye.] Coloured paradise.

Beniley.

like the sky. TO SKULK. v. n. To hide ; to lurk in fear There figs, skydyed, a purple hue disclose. or malice.

Pope. Discover'd, and defeated of your prey,

SKY'ED. adj. [from sky.) Enveloped by You skulk'd behind the fence, and sneaked away.

the skies. This is unauthorized and in

Dryden. elegant. While publick good aloft in pomp they wield,

The pale deluge floats And private interest skulks behind the shield. O'er the sky'd mountain to the shadowy vale. Young.

Thomson. SKULL. n. s. (skiola, Islandick; skatti, SKY'ISH. adj. [from skr.] Coloured by the Islandick, a head.]

ether ; approaching the sky. 1. The bone that encloses the head: it is Of this flat a mountain you have made, made up of several pieces, which, being

T'o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head joined together, form á considerable

Of blue Olympus.

Shakspeare. cavity, which contains the brain as in a

SKY'LARK.n. s. [sky and lark.] A lark

that mounts and sings. box, and it is proportionate to the big

He next proceeded to the skylark, mounting ness of the brain.

Quincy.

up by a proper scale of notes, and afterwards Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those

falling to the ground with a very easy descent. holes

Spectator. Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, SKYLIGHT. 1. s. (sky and light.] A winAs 't were in scorn of eyes, reflectingg With redoubled strokes he plies his head;

dow placed in a room, not laterally, but But drives the batter'd skull within the brains.

in the ceiling. Dryden.

A monstrous fowl dropped through the sky2. (sceole, Saxon, a company.] A shoal.

ligbt, near his wife's apartment,

Arbuthnot and Pope. See Sculi.

Repair to the river, where you have seen them SKY'ROCKET. n. s. [sky and rocket.] Ä swim in skulls or shoals.

Walton,

kind of firework, which flies high, and SKU'LLCAP. n. s. A headpiece.

burns as it Aies. SKU'LLCAP. n. s. (cassida, Lat.] A plant.

I considered a comet, or, in the language of SKY. n. s. [sky, Danish.]

the vulgar, a blazing star, as a skyrocket discharged by an hand that is almighty.

Addison. 1. The region which surrounds this earth

SLAB. n. s.

Ainsworth. beyond the atmosphere. It is taken for the whole région without the earth.

1. Apuddle. The mountains their broad backs upheave

2. A plane of stone : as, a marble slab. Into the clo ids, their tops ascend the sky. Milt. Slab. adj. (a word, I suppose, of the same

The maids of Argos, who with frantick cries, original with slabber, or slaver.) Thick; And imitated lowings, fill the skies. Rossom, viscous; glutinous.

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4. To languish ; to fail; to ilag. Ainsw. Finger of birth-strangled babe,

T. SLACK.
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab;

Make the gruel thick and slab. Sbakspeare.
TO SLA'BBER, v. n. (slabben, slabberen,

1. To loosen ; to make less tight. Dutch.

Ah! generous youth, that wish forbear;

Slack all thy sails, and fear to come. Dryden. 1. To let the spittle fall from the mouth;

Had Ajax been employ'd, our slacken'd sails to drivel.

Had still at Aulis waited happy gales. Dryden. 2. To shed or pour any thing.

2. To relax ; to remit. To SLA'BBER. V. a. (slaver is the word This makes the pulses beat, and lungs respire; used.]

This holds the sinews like a bridle's reins,

And makes the body to advance, retire, 1. To smear with spittle. He slabbered me all over, from check to cheek,

To turn, or stop, as she them slacks or strains.

Davies. with his great tongue.

Arbuthnot.

Taught power's due use to people and to 9. To shed; to spill.

kings, The milk-pan and cream-pot so slabber'd and

Taught nor to slack nor strain its tender strings. tost,

Pope. That butter is wanting, and cheese is half lost.

3. To ease ; to mitigate. Philips seems to

Tusser. SLA'BBERER. n. s.[from slabber.] He who

have used it by mistake for slake.

Men, having been brought up at home under slabbers ; an idiot.

a strict rule of duty, always restrained by sharp SLA'BBY. adj. [the same with slab.] penalties from lewd behaviour, so soon as they 1. Thick ; viscous. Not used.

come thither, where they see laws more slackly In the cure of an ulcer, with a moist intem- tended, and the hard restraint which they were peries, slabby and greasy medicaments are to be used unto now slacked, they grow more loose. forborn, and drying to be used. Wiseman,

Spenser. 2. Wet; floody : in low language.

If there be cure or charm
When waggish boys the stunted besom ply,

To respite, or deceive, or slack the pain
To rid the slabby pavements, pass not by. Gay.

Of this ill mansion.

Milton. SLACK. adj. (slaec, Saxon ; slaken

On our account has Jove,

; Islandick; yslack, Welsh ; laxus, Latin.]

Indulgent, to all moons some succulent plant

Allow'd, that poor helpless man might slack 1. Not tense ; not hard drawn; loose.

His present thirst, and matter find for toil. The vein in the arm is that which Aretaus

Philips. commonly opens; and he gives a particular cau

4. To remit for want of tion, in this case, to make a slack compression,

eagerness.

My guards for fear of exciting a convulsion. Arbutbrot,

Are you, great powers, and th' unbated strength 2. Relaxed ; weak ; not holding fast. Of a firm conscience; which shall arm each step All his joints relax'd :

Ta'en for the state, and teach me slack no pace. From his slack hand the garland wreath'd for Eve

Ben Jonson Dowa dropp'd, and all the faded roses shed.

With such delay well pleas'd, they slack their Milton

Milton, 3. Remiss ; not diligent; not eager ; not 5. To cause to be remitted; to make to fervent.

abate. Thus much help and furtherance is more You may sooner by imagination quicken or yielded, in thai, if so be our zcal and devotion to

slack a motion, than raise or cease it; as it is Godward be slack, the alacrity and fervour of easier to make a dog go slower than make him others serveth as a present spur. Hooker. stand still.

Bacon. Seeing his soldiers slack and timorous, he re- This doctrine must supersede and slacken all proved them of cowardice and treason, Knolles. industry and endeavour, which is the lowest de

Nor were it just, would he resume that shape, gree of that which hath been promised to be acThat slack devotion should his thunder 'scape. cepted by Christ ; and leave nothing to us to

Waller. deliberate or attempt, but only to obey our fate. Rebellion now began, for lack

Hammond. Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack. Hudibras. Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, 4. Not violent; not rapid.

The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more Their pace was formal, grave, and slack:

apt His nimble wit outran the heavy pack. Dryden. To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, 5. Not intense.

Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. A handful of slack dried hops spoil many

Milton. pounds, by taking away their pleasant smell.

Balls of this metal slack'd Atlanta's

pace, Mortimer. And on the am'rous youth bestow'd the race. TO SLACK. ? v. 1. (from the ad.

Waller. TO SLA'CKEN. jective.]

One conduces to the poet's aim, which he is

driving on in every line : the other slackens his 1. To be remiss; to neglect. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord, 6. To relieve ; to unbend.

pace, and diverts him from his way. Dryden. slack not to pay it.

Deuteronouny. Here have I seen the king, when great affairs 2. To lose the power of cohesion.

Gave leave to slacken and unbend his cares, The fire, in lime burnt, lies hid, so that it ap- Attended to the chace by all the flow'r pears to be cold; but water excites it again,

Of youth, whose hopes a nobler prey devour. whereby it slacks and crumbles into fine powder.

Denbom. Moxon.

7. To withhold; to use less liberally.

He that so generally is good, must of necessity Whence these raging fires

hold his virtue to you, whose worthiness would Will slacken. if his breath stir not their flames. stir it up where it wanted, rather than slack it

Miltun. where there is such abundance. Sbakspeare.

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quench it.

8. To crumble ; to deprive of the power

If I dięg'd up thy forefathers graves, of cohesion.

And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,

It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. Some voslacked lime cover with ashes, and let it stand till rain comes to slack the lime; then

Shakspeare. Mortimer. spread them together.

She with her cold hand slakes 9. To neglect.

His spirits, the sparks of life, and chills his heart.

Crasbaw. Why might not you, my lord, receive attende

From Tulus' head

A lambent Aame arose, which gently spread From those that she calls servants, or from mine?

Around his brows, and on his temples ied: If then they chanc'd to slack ye,

Amaz'd, with running water we prepare, We could controul them.

Shakspeare.

To quench the sacred fire, and slake his hair. This good chance, that thus much favoureth,

Dryden. He slacks not.

Daniel,

The fragrant fruit from bending branches Slack not the good presage, while heav'n in

shake, spires

And with the crystal stream their thirst at Our minds to dare, and gives the ready fires.

pleasure slake.

Blicémore. Dryden.

Coarse are his meals, the fortune of the chace; 10. To 'repress; to make less quick or

Amidst the running stream he slakes his thirst. forcible.

Addison. I should be griev'd, young prince, to think 2. It is used of lime : so that it is uncermy presence

tain whether the original notion of To Unbent your thoughts, and slacken'd 'em to

slack or slake lime be to powder or

Addison. SLACK. n. s. (from the verb.] Small coal;

That which he saw happened to be fresh lime, coal broken in small parts: as slacked

and gathered before any rain had fallen to slake lime turns to powder.

it.

Woodzward. SLACKLY. adv. [from slack.]

TO SLAKE. V. n. [This is apparently from 1. Loosely ; not tightly; not closely. slack.] 2. Negligently; remissly.

1. To grow less tense; to be reiaxed. That å king's children should be so convey'd, If she the body's nature did partake, So slackly guarded, and the search so slow Her strength would with the body's strength That could not trace them. Shakspeare.

decay ; SLA'CKNESS. N. s. [from slack.]

But when the body's strongest sincws slake,

Then is the soul most active, quick, and gay, 1. Looseness; not tightness.

Da vies. 2. Negligence ; inattention ; remissness.

2. To go out; to be extinguished. It concerneth the duty of the chureli by law

She perceiving that his filame did slabi, to provide, that the looseness and slackness of

And lov'd her only for his trophy's suke. Brown men may not cause the commandments of God to be unexecuted.

Hooker.

TO SLAM. v. n. [lema, Islandick; schlagen, These thy offices,

Dutch. To slaughter; to cius'ı. A So rarely kind, are as interpreters

word not used but in low conversation. Of my behind-hand slackness. Shakspeare. To SLA'NDER. v. a. [esclaundrie, Fr. Froin man's effeminate slackness it begins,

scandalum, Lat.] To censure falsely; to Who should better hold his place

belie. By wisdom, and superior gifts receiv'd. Milton.

Slander Valentine 3. Want of tendency; tardiness.

With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent. When they have no disposition to shoot out

Shakspeare. above their lips, there is a slackness to heal, and He hath slardered thy servant unto the king. a cure is very difficultly effected. Sharp

. Samwel. 4. Weakness; not force; not intenseness.

Give me leave to speak as earnestly in ruly Through the slackness of motion, or long

commending it, as you have done in untruly banishment from the air, it mighe gather some and unkindly defacing and sland:ring ii. Wbitgift.

Breretrood. apiness to putrefy.

Thou dost with lies the throne invade, SLAG. n. s. The dress or recrement of

By practice harden'd in the siandering trade;

Obtending heav'n for whate'er ills b ?-11, metal.

And sputi'ring under speciol's names tay gall. Not only the calces but the glasses of metal

Dryder. may be of differing colours from the natural co- Of all her dears she never slander'd one, lour of the metal, as I have observed about the

But cares not if a thousand are undone. Pope. glass or slag of copper.

Boyle. SLA'NDER. N. s. [from the verb.]
SLAIE. N. 5. A weaver's reed. Ainsw. 1. False invective.
SLAIN. The participle passive of slay.

When slanders do not live in tongues;
The slain of the Lord shall be many. Isaiah. When cut-purses come not to throngs. Shaksp.
The king grew vain,

Since that, we hear he is in arms, Fought all his battles o'er again;

We think not so; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he Yet charge the consul with our harms, slew the slain.

Dryden.

That let him go :

So in our censure of the state TO SLAKE. v. a. [from slack, Skinner ;

We still do wander, from slock, Islandick, to quench, Lye.] And make the careful magistrate J. To quench; to extinguish.

The mark of slander. Ben Jonson. He did always strive

We are not to be dejected by the slanders and Himself with salves to health for to restore,

calumnies of bad men, because our integrity And slake the heavenly fire that raged ever- shall then be cleared by him who cannot err in

Spenser
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Nelson, VOL, IV.

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2. Disgrace; reproach.

SLAP. adv. (from the noun.] With a sud. Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb!

den and violent blow. Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins. Shaksp.

Peg's servants complained; and if they offered 3. Disreputation; ill name.

to come into the warehouse, then straight went You shall not find me, daughter,

the yard slap over their noddle. Arbutbnct. After the slander of most stepmothers, To Slap.via. [from the noun.] To strike Il-ey'd unto you.

Slak-peare.

with a slap. SLA'NDERER. *. 5. [from slander. ] One

Dick, who thus long had passive sat, who belies another; one who lays false Here stroak'd his chin, and cock'd his hat; imputations on another.

Then slapp'd his hand upon the board, In your servants suffer any offence against And thus the youth put in his word. Prior. yourself rather than against God: endure not that they should be railers or slanderers, tell- SLAPDA'sh. interj. [from slap and dash.] tales, or sowers of dissension.

Taglor.

All at once : as any thing broad falls Thou shalt answer for this, thou slanderer! with a slap into the water, and dushes it

Dryden. about. A low word. SLA'NDEROUS, adj. [from slander.]

And yet, slapdasb, is all again 1. Uttering reproachful falsehoods.

In ev'ry sinew, nerve, and vein. Prior. What king so strong

To SLASH. v. a. [slasa, to strike, IşlandCan tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ? ick.]

Sbakspeare. 1. To cut; to cut with long cuts.
To me belongs

2. To lash. Slash is improper. 'The care to shun the blast of sland'rous tongues:

Daniel, a sprightly swain, that us'd to slash
Let malice, prone the virtuous to defame,
Thus with vile censure taint my spotless name.

The vig'rous steeds that drew his lord's calash,
Pope.
To Peggy's side inclin'd.

King 2. Containing reproachful falsehoods ; ca- TO SLASH. v. n. To strike at random with ļumnious.

a sword; to lay about him. I was never able till now to choke the mouth The knights with their bright burning blades of such detractors with the certain knowledge

Broke their rude troops, and orders did conof their slanderous untruths.

Spenser.

found, We lay these honours on this man,

Hewing and slasbing at their idle shades. F.Queen. To ease ourselves of divers sland'rous loads. Shak. Not that I'd lop the beauties from his book,

As by flattery a man opens his bosom to his Like slasbing Bentley with his desp'rate hook. mortal enemy, so by detraction and a slanderous

Pope, misreport he shuts the same to his best friends. SLASH. n. s. [from the verb.]

Soutb.

1. Cut ; wound, SLA'NDEROUSLY.adv.[from slanderous.] Some few received some cuts and slasbe: that Calumniously; with false reproach. had drawn blood.

Clarendon. I may the better satisfy them who object these 2. A cut in cloth. doubts, and slanderously, bark at the courses

What! this a sleeve? which are held against that traiterous earl and Here's snip and nip, and cut, and slish and slasb, his adherents.

Spenser. Like to a censor in a barber's shop. Sbakspeare.
They did slanderously object,

Distinguish'd slashes deck the great,
How that they durst not hazard to present As each excels in birth or state ;
In person their defences.

Daniel. His oylet-holes are more and ampler;
SLANG. The preterit of sling.

The king's own body was a sampler. Prior. David slang a stone, and smote the Philistine. SLATCH. n. s. (a sea term.] The middle

1 Samuel. SLANK. n. s. [alga marina.] An herb.

part of a rope or cable that hangs down

loose. Ainsworth.

Bailey. | adj. [from slanghe, a

SLATE. n. s. [from slit : slate is in some

counties a crack; or from esclate, a tile, serpent, Dutch. Skinner.]' Oblique; not direct; not perpen

French.] A gray stone, easily broken

into thin plates, which are used to cover dicular.

houses, or to write upon. Late the clouds Justling, or push'd with winds, rude in their

A square cannot be so truly drawn upon a shock,

slate as it is conceived in the mind. Grew Tine the slant lightning: whose thwart flame

A small piece of a flat slate the ants laid over driv'n down

the hole of their nest, when they foresaw it

would rain. Kindles the gummy bark of fir and pine. Milt.

Spectator. The sun round the globe describes th' equator To SLATE. v. a. (from the noun.

n.] To line,

cover the roof; to tile. By which wise means he can the whole survey Sonnets and elegies to Chloris, With a direct or with a slanting ray,

Would raise a house about two stories, In the succession of a night and day. Blackmore.

A lyrick ode would slate.

Svin. SLA'NTLY, adv. (from slant.] Ob-. SLA’ter. n. s. [from slate.]. One who SLA'NT WISE.) liquely; not perpen- covers with slates or tiles. dicularly ; slope.

SLA'TTERN, n. s. [sluetti, Swedish.] A Some makerh a hollowness half a foot deep, With fower sets init, set slantwise asleep. Tusser.

woman negligent, not elegant or nice.

Without the raising of which sum, SLAP. n. s. [schlap, German.] A blow.

You dare not be so troublesome Properly with the hand open, or with To pinch the slatterns black and blue, something rather broad than sharp. For leaving you their work to do. Hudibras. The laugh, the slap, the jocund curse go round. We may always observe, that a gossip in poli.

Thomson, ticks is a slattern in her family. Addison

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