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oreech of a piece of ordnance, and the other eye comes 

 over the end of an iron crow, which is put into the mouth 

 of the piece, to weigh and hoill the gun as they pleafe. 



There arc alfo flings for the yards ; which is done by 

 binding them fait to the crofs-tree aloft, and to the iicad 

 of the mail, with a ftrong rope or cliain, tliat if the tie 

 fliould happen to break, or to be fliot to pieces in fight, 

 the yard, neverthelefs, may not fall upon the hatches. 



Slinging a Man overboard, in order to Hop a leak in a 

 Ihip, is done thus : the man is truffed up about the middle 

 in a piece of canvas, and a rope to keep him from linking, 

 with his arms at liberty, a mallet in one hand, and a plug, 

 wrapped in oakum and well tarred in a tarpawling-clout, in 

 the other, which he is to beat with all difpatch into the 

 hole or leak. 



SLIP, zxnong Ship- Bulldtrs, denotes a place lying with 

 a gradual defcent on the banks of a river, convenient for 

 Jliip-bmld'ing ; vifhich fee. 



Slips, mafles of earth which are apt to flip out of the 

 banks of canals, refervoirs, &c. 



Slips, in Gardening, fuch portions of plants as are flipped 

 oft from the Items or branches for the puipole of being 

 planted out as fets. A great number of plants, both of 

 the woody and herbaceous kinds, is propagated by flips, 

 which is effefted in the woody kinds by flipping off fmall 

 young (hoots from the fides of the branches. Sec. with the 

 thumb and finger, inltead of cutting them off" with a knife ; 

 but there is no material difference, in the fuccefs or future 

 growth, between flips and cuttings, only the former in 

 fmall young (hoots is more proper to be flipped off by the 

 hand, which, in numerous fmall flirubby plants, will grow ; 

 but it is more commonly praftifed in the lower ligneous 

 plants, fuch as fage, winter-favory, hyffop, thyme, fouthern- 

 .vood, rofemary, rue, lavender, and others of flow (hrubby 

 growths. The belt feafon of the year for effefting the 

 work, is generally the fpring and beginning of fummer, though 

 many forts will grow if planted at almolt any time, from 

 the fpring to the latter end of the fummer, as fhcwn in 

 fpeaking of their culture. 



And in performing thr work of flipping in thefe forts, 

 the young (hoots of but one year's growth, and in many 

 forts the (hoots of the year, (hould be chofen as growing 

 the mod readily, even when to plant the fame fummer 

 they are produced, efpecially the hard-wooded kinds : but 

 in the more foft-wooded plants, the flips of one year's growth 

 will alio often readily grow ; being careful always to 

 choofe the moderately-growing fide-flioots fituated on the 

 outward part of the plants, from three to fix or eight 

 inches long, flipping them off clofe to the branches, and 

 clearing off the lower leaves ; then planting them in a fliady 

 border, if in fummer, and watered, or fo as they can be 

 occafionally (haded in hot funny weather, efpecially fmall 

 flips, inferting the whole two parts of three into the ground, 

 giving occafional water in dry warm weather, till properly 

 rooted ; and then towards autumn, or in the fpring follow- 

 ing, tranfplanting them where they are to remain. 



But in planting flips of the flioots of tender fhrubby 

 exotics of the greenhoufe and Hove, many forts require the 

 aid of a hot-bed or bark bed, to promote their emitting 

 roots more effedually, as (hewn in their refpeftive culture ; 

 but fome others of the (hrubby kinds, fuch as geraniums, 

 will root freely in the natural earth in fummer ; and many 

 of the herbaceous tribe, producing bottom-rooted olfsets 

 for flips, as aloes, &c. alfo readily grow, cither with or 

 without a hot-bed ; but where there is the convenience of 

 hot-beds in which to plunge the pots of flips of tender 

 plants, it runs them off more eipcditioufly ; and molt hot- 



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houfe plants in particular require that affiftance. But 

 many flirubby plants, growing into large bunches from the 

 root of the fmall under-flirubby kinds, as thyme, favory, 

 hyffop, fage, &c. as well as thofe of larger growth, as rofes, 

 fpira:as, rafpberries, and numerous other forts, may be 

 flipped quite to the bottom into feparate plants, each fur. 

 niflied with roots, and planted either in nurfery.rows, or at 

 once where they are to remain. 



And as to the flipping of herbaceous plants, various 

 forts multiply by the roots, &c. into lar^je bunches, which 

 may be flipped into many feparate plants, bv flipping off 

 the increafed fuckers or offsets of the root,' and in fome 

 forts by the offsets from the fides of the head of the plants, 

 and in a few forts by flips of their bottom ftioots, as well as 

 of the (talks and branches in plants of bufliy growth ; but 

 the greater part by flipping the roots, as in many of the 

 bulbous-rooted tribe, and numerous fibrous-rooted kinds of 

 plants. The flipping of the bulbous plants is performed 

 in fummer when their leaves decay, the roots being then 

 taken up, flipping off all the fmall offsets from the main 

 bulb, which are generally foon planted again in nurfery- 

 beds for a year or two. See Bulbous Roots. 



In the fibrous-rooted forts, the flipping fliould generally 

 be performed in the fpring or early part of autumn, which 

 may be effefted either by flipping the outfide offsets with 

 roots, as tlie plants ffand in tha ground ; or more effeftually, 

 by taking the whole bunch of plants up, and flipping them 

 into feveral feparate parts, each flip 'being furniflied alfo 

 with roots, planting them, if fmall, in nurfery-rows for a 

 year, to gain ftrength ; or fuch as are ttrong may be 

 planted at once where they are to remain. See the culture 

 of the different forts under their relpeftive heads. 



SLIPPER. See Plinth. 



Supper, a kind of iron fledge, or lock, for the ufe of a 

 tram-waggon. 



Slipper //land, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Eaft 

 Indian fea. N. lat. 14° 8'. E. long. 93° 30'. 



Slipper, Lady's, in Botany. See Cypripedium. 



SLIPPERY Rock, in Geography, a townfliip of Ame- 

 nica, in the (late of Pennfylvania, and county of Mercer, 

 containing 789 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townlliip of Pennfyl- 

 vania, in Butler county, containing 658 inhabitants. 



SLIPPING, among Gardeners, the tearing off a fprig 

 from a branch, or a branch from an arm of a tree. 

 Thefe forts of flips take root more readily than cuttings. 

 See Slips. 



Slipi'ing, in Rural Economy, a term ufed among animals 

 to denote abortion in them. Thus, marcs are faid to flip 

 their colts, ewes their lambs, and cows their calves. And 

 it has been fuggeffed, that cows in calf, by fmelling to any 

 flefli, particularly in a putrefcent ftate, are afledied by fuch a 

 naufea as to (limulate the womb to adion, and to ejeft the 

 foetus: this is well known in the north of Scotland, where 

 it is particularly guarded againll. It is obferved by Mr. 

 Rofs, in the 25th volunr.e of the " Annals of Agriculture," 

 that through the inattention of a game-keeper, there was 

 always horfe-flclh lying about his yards, and he had many- 

 cows which flipped calves. It is fiippofcd, in the " Eflex 

 Agricultural Report," that bleeding, when one-third or 

 halt gone, is a preventative. When it happens, the abor- 

 tion (hould be immediately buried, and the cow kept as 

 widely apart as poffible from the herd, and not receive the 

 bull that goes with them. It is confidered as certainly 

 infedious. 



And in Suffcx it has been fuppofed by fome that the 



flipping of lambs has been caufed by too free a ufe of rape, 



as one large (heep-farmer, fome years fince, loft eighty or 



U ninety 



