in the United States of America. 519 
dently forgets the fayourite compound term‘ sleng-whanger’ (u newesfaper- 
writer ) which occurs in almost every paye ; and indeed many more vulgar- 
isms, or at best frovincialisms, which we forbear to mention, but hope we 
may not see repeated in similar compositions,” &c. Jonth Rev. yol. \xv. p. 
429. 
This word, which is of yery recent origin in America, does not denote 
merely a“ writer ;” it-also means a noisy ‘acker, who makes use of that 
sortof political or other cant, which amuses the rabble, and is called by the 
vulgar name of s/ang. It is hardly necessary to add, that this term (as well 
as slang-whanging) is never admitted into the higher kinds of writing, but 
like other cant words, is confined to that familiar style which is allowed on- 
dy in works of humour. 
ToSLAT ; to throw down with violence, to dash against. Zax. “ He slat the 
‘book down upon the floor.’ 4 low word, used only in conversa~ 
‘tion. It is an English frovincialism, and is not in the dictionaries. Ray 
has it among his Worth Country Words thus: “To slat on, to leck on, 
{pour on] to cast on, ar dash ‘against. “Vox evouerom.” Mason adopts it 
from Ray, and adds an authority: “To slat, v. to dash. Slatted his 
brains out, then soused him in the briny sea. Marston’s Maicon.” “Those 
pasts = use it here, do not make the preterite slatted, but slat. It is 
SLEIGH ; a a carriage for travelling on the snow!” 0777 7a sea 
Mr. Kendall, after mentioning this word in his Travels (vol. iii. p. 119) 
thas this note upon it: “A /ocad name for sledge, Jearned of the Dutch colo- 
“nists.” Mr. Webster writes it Sley; anda reviewer of his dictionary has 
‘the following remark on the word = : ee 
“ Sley being a vehicle in on use with 1 unk 
has a claim, we confess, to a place in an English dieiniate 3 but whit 
it here to remark, that we have commonly, we believe ones oe aa 
ed sleigh”? Month. Anthol. vol. v. pe 429+ 2 gaat 
SLIM ; $ ordinary, mean. 4 low word. ea ; 
we 
Ray has slim, among his orth Country Words. — in dia 
word generally used [in Lincolnshire } —— a a . 
says, that even in its usual sense (i. e. slender) it 18% a word, 
