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man, that they may look forward beneath it as the ihip ad- 

 vances. Falconer. 



SLABBERING-BiT, in the Manege See Masti- 



QADOUR. 



3LABETZ, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the 

 circle of Rakonitz ; 7 miles S. of Rakonitz. 



SLABODA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 

 Braclaw ; 40 miles N.W. of Braclaw. 



SLAB-TOWN, a village of America, in Burlington 

 county, New Jerfey, about half-way between Burlington 

 and Mount Holly, and about four or five miles from each. 



SLACK, in Agrkulturi:, provincially a valley or fmall 

 (hallow dale or dip. 



Slack a Leg, in the Manege, called in French m&//ir la 

 Jamie, is faid of a horfe when he trips or ftumbles. 



Slack the Hand, is to flack the bridle, or give a horfe 

 head. 



SLACK-CLOTH, in Sail-Making, a certain quantity of 

 cloth allowed to be gradually gathered up, in fewing on the 

 bolt-rope to the fail, more than the length of the bolt-rope ; 

 otherwife the rope, by ftretching in the wearing, might oc- 

 cafion the fail to fplit. 



SLACKEN, in Metallurgy, a term ufed by the miners 

 to exprefs a fpongy and femivitrified fubltance, which they 

 ufc to mix with the ores of metals, to prevent their fufion. 

 It is the fcoria, or fcum, feparated from the furface of the 

 former fufions of metals. To this they frequently add a 

 lime-ftone, and fometimes a kind of coarfe iron-ore, in 

 the running of the poorer gold-ores. 



SLACK-WATER, in Sea Language, denotes the inter- 

 val between the flux and reflux of the tide, or between the 

 laft of the ebb and the firft of the flood, during which the 

 current is interrupted, and the water apparently remains in 

 a ftate of re it. 



SLADE, in Agriculture, a term provincially fignifying 

 a fledge. See Sledge. 



Slade, Down, a provincial term fignifying to draw back 

 part of the mould into the intcrfurrow with the plough 

 dragging or Hading upon its fide. 



Slade Point, in Geography, a cape on the N.E. coaft of 

 New Holland; 15 miles S.E. of Cape Hillfborough. 



SLAG, in Metallurgy, &c. denotes vitrified cinder. 

 See Smelting. 



Slag it found an ufeful material in repairing the roads in 

 many places. 



SLAGE, SlAGEN, or Schlagen, in Geography. See 

 Schlawa. 



SLAGELSE, a town of Denmark, in the ifland of 

 Zealand; 42 miles W.S.W. of Copenhagen. N. lat. 

 SS° 26'. E. long. 11° 29'. 



SLAIGHTWAITE, a townfliip and chapelry in the 

 parifli of Huddersfield, in Aylrig wapentake, and Welt 

 Riding of the county of York, England, is four miks 

 from the town of Huddersfield, and 190 from Lon- 

 don. According to the population reports of 181 1, this 

 townfliip contained 425 houfes and 2277 inhabitants, the 

 greater part of whom are engaged in the maniifatture of 

 cotton goods, which is the ftaple trade of this dillrift. 



SLAKE, in Agriculture, a term fignifying the faturat- 

 ing of quick-lime with moiiturc, as water, &c. 



SLAKED Lime, fuch as is reduced into a powdery Itate 

 by the aftion of water upon it, or the hydrate of lime. 

 In this cafe, the lime is combined with about one-third of 

 its weight of water, that is, about 55 parts of the former 

 abforb or drink up about 17 parts of the latter. Sec 

 Lime. 



SLAM, the refufe of alum-works, which i8 ufed as a 

 manure with fea-weed and lime, in Yorkfliire. 



SLAMMERSDORP, in Geography, a town of the 

 duchy of Holltein; 7 miles N.E. of Segeborg. 



SLANDER, in Law. See Scandalum Magnatum. 



SLANE, in Geography, a poll-town of the county of 

 Meath, Ireland, fituated on the river Boyne. In the time 

 of Hugh de Lacy this was a town of fome note, being 

 one of the boroughs in his palatinate of Meath. Here 

 were many religious buildings, one of which was fometimes 

 ufed as the refidence of a royal prince, and was rebuilt by 

 the lord of Slane in IJ12. In the prefent remains of 

 lord Slane's building, there are, according to Mr. Arch- 

 dale, leveral fragments of the ancient abbey, and many of 

 the architraves were evidently cut out of the ornamental 

 parts, particularly one with the appearance of a head 

 crowned. The cafl;le that belonged to the lords of Slane, 

 and was forfeited by them in 1641, is now the property of 

 the Conyngham family. It has been much beautified, and 

 is an elegant refidence. At New Grange, near Slane, is a 

 moll remarkable mount, barrow, or rath, with a curious 

 chamber in the centre, conilrufted of rude Hones, and ac- 

 ceflible only by a long padage, low, and very narrow. 

 Governor Pownall has given a minute defcriptioa of this 

 barrow in the Archasologia, &c. It is alfo defcribed in 

 the " CoUeftanea de Rebus Hibernicis." Slane is 24 miles 

 N. by W. from Dublin. 



SLANETZ, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the 

 Tobol ; 60 miles S. of Tobolfli. 



SLANEY, a river of Ireland, rifing in the Wicklow 

 mountains, near the fource of the Liffey, and flowing in a 

 fouthern direftion through the counties of Wicklow, 

 Carlow, and Wexford, to the harbour of Wexford. The 

 towns of Stratford on Slaney, Baltinglafs, Rathvilly, 

 TuUow, Newtown Barry, Ennifcorthy, and Wexford, 

 are fituated on it, and it receives the waters of the Derry, 

 Bann, Urrie, and feveral fmaller ftreams. It is navigable 

 for fmall floops to Ennifcorthy. 



SLANGE, Nicholas, in Biography, a Dutch hiftorian 

 of confiderable celebrity, was born at Slagelfe in the year 

 1657, of which place his father was the miniller, and he 

 was afterwards bifliop of Viborg. Nicholas travelled at 

 an early period, and in 1679 he paid a vifit to Oxford, 

 and in the year following he went to Cambridge. On his 

 return he became, in 1681, fccretary to the Danifli chan- 

 cery, and after going through various gradations of rank 

 and office, he was ennobled in the year 173 I. He died in 

 1737. He wrote " A HiRory of Chrillian IV." which 

 was publifhed at Copenhagen in 1 749, in two volumes, 

 foho. It was afterwards tranflatcd into the German Ian- 

 guage. Gen. Biog. 



SLANGER, in Geography. SeeTuMB. 



SLANGERUP, a town of Denmark, in Zealand ; 16 

 miles N.W. of Copenhagen. N. lat. 45° J i'- E. long. 

 12" 10'. 



SLANT, in Commerce, a copper coin of Sweden. Here 

 are fingle and double Hants, at 1 and 2 ore filver, or 3 and 

 6 ore koppcr ; and ruiuUlycken, of i ore kopper ; and alfo 

 half ruiidilycken : 96 double Hants, 192 fingle Hants, or 

 576 rundllycken, are to pals for i Ipccie rikfdaler : and 

 this, commonly called the Swedifli dollar, is worth 4J. 7W. 

 ilcrllHg. 



SLAPANITZ, in Geography, a town of Moravia, io 

 the circle of Brunii ; 5 miles E.S.E. of Brunn. 



SLAPDASH, in Rural Economy, provincially rough 

 call, or the liquid external coaiinjr of buildings. 



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