Slur (n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Slurred (a.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.
Slush (n.) Soft mud.
Slush (n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
Slush (n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
Slush (n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
Slush (n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
Slushed (imp. & p. p.) of Slush
Slushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slush
Slush (v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
Slush (v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Slushy (a.) Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.
Slut (n.) An untidy woman; a slattern.
Slut (n.) A servant girl; a drudge.
Slut (n.) A female dog; a bitch.
Slutch (n.) Slush.
Slutchy (a.) Slushy.
Sluthhound (n.) Sleuthhound.
Sluttery (n.) The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.
Sluttish (a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.
Sly (v. t.) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.
Sly (v. t.) Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Sly (v. t.) Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
Sly (v. t.) Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Sly (adv.) Slyly.
Slyboots (n.) A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
Slyly (adv.) In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Slyness (n.) The quality or state of being sly.
Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.
Smack (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
Smack (v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
Smack (v. i.) A small quantity; a taste.
Smack (v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss.
Smack (v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Smack (v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap.
Smack (adv.) As if with a smack or slap.
Smacked (imp. & p. p.) of Smack
Smacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smack
Smack (n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
Smack (n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
Smack (n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Smack (n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
Smack (v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
Smack (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
Smack (v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
Smacking (n.) A sharp, quick noise; a smack.
Smacking (a.) Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.
Small (superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
Small (superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
Small (superl.) Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
Small (superl.) Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
Small (superl.) Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.
Small (adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
Small (adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
Small (n.) The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
Small (n.) Smallclothes.
Small (n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
Small (v. t.) To make little or less.
Smallage (n.) A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
Smallclothes (n. pl.) A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
Smallish (a.) Somewhat small.
Smallness (n.) The quality or state of being small.
Smallpox (n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
Smalls (n. pl.) See Small, n., 2, 3.
Smallsword (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
Smally (adv.) In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.
Smalt (v. t.) A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.
Smalt-blue (a.) Deep blue, like smalt.
Smaltine (n.) Alt. of Smaltite
Smaltite (n.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.
Smaragd (n.) The emerald.
Smaragdine (a.) Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.
Smaragdite (n.) A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.
Smarted (imp. & p. p.) of Smart
Smarting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smart
Smart (v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
Smart (v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
Smart (v. t.) To cause a smart in.
Smart (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
Smart (v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
Smart (v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
Smart (v. i.) Smart money (see below).
Smart (v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
Smart (v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
Smart (v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
Smart (v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
Smart (v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
Smart (v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
Smart (v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
Smart (v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Smarten (v. t.) To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.
Smartle (v. i.) To waste away.
Smartly (adv.) In a smart manner.
Smartness (n.) The quality or state of being smart.
Smartweed (n.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
Smashed (imp. & p. p.) of Smash
Smashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Smash
Smash (v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
Smash (v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.