slip-board 
slip-board (slip'bord), . A board sliding in 
grooves. 
I got with much difficulty out of my hammock, having 
first ventured to draw back the slip-board on the roof, . . . 
contrived on purpose to let in air. 
Sw\ft, Gulliver's Travels, ii. 7. 
slip-carriage (slip'kar'aj), . A railway-car- 
riage attached to an express-train in such a 
manner that it may be "slipped " or detached at 
a station or junction while the rest of the train 
passes on without stopping. [Great Britain.] 
Slip-chase (slip'chas), . In printing, a long 
and narrow framework of iron made for hold- 
ing corresponding forms of type. See c/iose 2 , 1. 
rang.] 
slip-cleavage (sUp'klS'vaj), n. In coal-min- 
ing, the cleat of the coal, when this is paral- 
lel with the slips, or small faults by which 
the formation is intersected. Gresley. [South 
Wales.] 
slip-COint (slip'koin), it. A counterfeit coin. 
See slip 1 , n., 13. 
This is the worldling's folly, rather to take a piece of 
slip-coin in hand than to trust God for the invaluable mass 
of glory. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 247. 
slip-cover (slip'kuv"er), n. A temporary cov- 
ering, commonly of linen or calico, used to pro- 
tect upholstered furniture. 
slip-decoration (slip'dek-o-ra"shon), n. In cc- 
ram., decoration by means of slip applied to a 
part of the surface in patterns, or more rarely 
in the form of animals and the like. For this pur- 
pose the slip is sometimes poured through a quill or small 
pipe fitted into the end of a vessel contrived for this pur- 
Sise. SeetKpi, n.,11, and pipette. 
p-dock (slip'dok), n. A dock whose floor 
slopes toward the water, so that its lower end 
is in deep water, and its upper end above high- 
water mark. It is laid with rails to support the 
cradle. See slip 1 , n., 14. 
slipe (slip), n. [Cf . slip 1 , n.] In coal-mining : 
(a) A skip without wheels ; a sledge. (b) pi. 
Flat pieces of iron on which the corfs slide. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
Slipert, A Middle English spelling of slip- 
per 1 . 
Slip-galley (slip'gaF'i), n. In printing, along 
and narrow tray of metal (sometimes of wood) 
made to hold composed type. See galley, 5. 
sliphaltert (slip'hal"ter), n. [< slip 1 , v., + obj. 
halter'*.'] One who has cheated the gallows; 
one who deserves to be hanged ; a villain. 
As I hope for mercy, I am half persuaded that this slip- 
halter has pawned my clothes. 
Dodsley's Old Plays (4th ed. Hazlitt), XIV. 149 (quoted 
[in N. and Q., 7th ser., II. 208). 
slip-hook (slip'huk), n. Naut. : (a) A hook 
which grasps a chain cable by one of its links, 
and may be disengaged or slipped by the mo- 
tion of a trigger, sliding ring, or the like. (6) 
A hook so contrived as to be readily unhooked 
when there is a strain on it. 
slip-house (slip'hous), n. In ceram., a house or 
shed containing the slip-kiln. 
slip-kiln (slip'kil), n. A pan or series of pans 
arranged with flues heated from a stove, for 
the partial evaporation of the moisture of slip 
and the reduction of it to the proper consis- 
tence. 
slip-knot (slip'not), n. 1. A knot which can 
be easily slipped or undone by pulling the loose 
end of the last loop made ; a bow-knot. 
Hasty marriages slip-knots tied by one justice to be 
undone by another. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 320. 
2. Same as running knot (which see, under run- 
ning}. 
slip-link (slip'lingk), n. In much., a connect- 
ing-link so arranged as to allow the parts some 
play in order to avoid concussion. 
Slippage (slip'aj), n. [< slip 1 + -age.] The act 
of slipping ; also, in meek., the amount of slip. 
slipped (slipt), a. [< slip 1 + -ed?.] 1. Fitted 
with slips: as, a \)ox.-slipped plane. 2. Inher., 
represented as torn from the stalk in such a 
way as to have a strip of the bark of the main 
stem still clinging to it: said of a branch or 
twig, or a single leaf. 
slipper 1 ! (slip'er), a. [< ME. slipper, sliper, < 
AS. *slipor, slipur ( MLG. slipper), slippery, < 
slipan, slupan, slip : see slip 1 . Cf . slippery.'} 1 . 
Slippery. 
To lyve in woo he hath grete fantasie, 
And of his herte also hath sliper holde. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 80. 
Therefore hold thou thy fortune fast ; for she is slipper 
and cannot bee kept against her will. 
J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Ourtius, vii. 
A slipper and subtle knave. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 246. 
5099 
2. Fluent; flowing. 
I say that auricular figures be those which wprke alter- 
ation in th' eare by sound, accent, time, and slipper volu- 
bilitie in vtterance, such as for that respect was called by 
the auncients numerositie of speach. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 134. 
slipper 2 (slip'er), n. [So called from being 
easily slipped on; < slip 1 , v., + -er 1 . Cf. slip- 
shoe.] 1. A loose, light shoe into which the 
foot may be easily slipped, generally for wear- 
ing indoors. Compare pantoflc, and cut under 
poulainc. 
The slippers on her feet 
Were cover'd o'er wi' gold. 
James Merries (Child's Ballads, I. 207). 
A sense of peace and rest 
Like slippers after shoes. 
0. W. Holmes, Fountain of Youth. 
2. A child's garment ; especially, a child's slip. 
[Local.] 3. Same as slipper-plant. See Pedi- 
laiitlnm. Hunt the slipper. See hunt. Venus's- 
slipper, in conch. : (a) A slipper-shaped pteropod. See 
Cymouliidx. (b) A glass-nautilus. See Carinaria. 
slipper 3 (slip'er), n. [< slip 1 , v., + -er 1 .'] 1. A 
kind of iron slide or brake-shoe acting as a 
drag on the wheel of a heavy wagon in de- 
scending an incline ; a skid. Also called slip- 
per-drag. 2. One who or that which slips or 
lets slip; specifically, in coursing, the person 
who holds the couple of hounds in the leash, 
and lets both slip at the same instant on a 
given signal when the hare is started. 
slipper-animalcule (slip'er-an-i-mal"kul), n. 
A ciliate infusorian of the genus Paramecium : 
so called from the shape. See cut under Para- 
mecium. 
slipper-bath (slip'er-bath), w. A bath-tub part- 
ly covered and having the shape of a shoe, 
the bather's feet resting in what may be called 
the toe, and the bather sitting more or less 
erect in the open part. The covering is useful partly 
to prevent the spilling of the water, and partly to pro- 
tect the bather from currents of air. 
slipper-drag (slip'er-drag), n. Same as slip- 
per*, 1. Kankine, Steam Engine, $ 48. 
Slippered (slip'erd), a. [< slipper^ + -ed 2 .] 
Wearing or covered with slippers : as, slippered 
feet. 
The sixth age shifts 
Into the lean and Mpper'd pantaloon. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 158. 
slipper-flower (slip'er-flou / 'er), H. 1. Theslip- 
perwort. 2. The slipper-plant. 
Slipperily (slip'er-i-li), adv. In a slippery man- 
ner. 
slipperiness (slip'er-i-nes), n. The character 
or state of being slippery, in any sense of that 
word. 
slipper-limpet (slip'er-lim // pet), H. A slipper- 
shell. 
slippernesst (slip'er-nes), . [< slipper 1 + 
-ness."] Slipperiness; changeableness; untrust- 
worthiness. 
Let this example teach menne not to truste on the 
slyppernesse of fortune. Tavemer's Adag., C 1. (Nares.) 
slipper-plant (slip'er-plant), n. See Pedilan- 
thus. 
slipper-shell (slip'er-shel), . A gastropod 
of the genus Crepidula. See cut under Crepi- 
dula. 
slipper-spurge (slip'er-sperj), . The slipper- 
plant. See Pedilanthus. 
Slipperwort (slip'er-wert), n. A plant of the 
genus Calceolaria : so called from the form of 
the lower lip of the corolla. 
slippery (shp'er-i), a. [= MHG. slupferic, G. 
scluupjrig, slippery ; as slipper 1 + -y 1 .] 1 . Hav- 
ing such smoothness of surface as to cause 
slipping or sliding, or to render grip or hold 
difficult; not affording firm footing or secure 
hold. 
The streetes being slippery, I fell against a piece of tim- 
ber with such violence that I could not speake nor fetch 
my breath for some space. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 9, 1676. 
Hence 2. That cannot be depended on or 
trusted; uncertain; untrustworthy; apt to play 
one false ; dishonest : as, he is a slippery person 
to deal with; slippery politicians. 
Servants are slippery; but I dare give my word for her 
and for her honesty. 
Beau, and Fl, King and No King, ii. 1. 
We may as justly suspect, there were some bad and slip- 
pery men in that councell, as we know there are wone to 
be in our Convocations. Milton, Prelatical Episcopacy. 
3. Liable to slip or lose footing. [Rare.] 
lleing slippery standers, 
The love that lean'd on them as slippery too, 
Do one pluck down another, and together 
Die in the fall. Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 84. 
slip-skin 
4. Unstable; changeable; mutable. 
Oh, world, thy slippery turns ! Shak., Cor., iv. 4. 12. 
He, looking down 
With scorn or pity on the slippery state 
Of kings, will tread upon the neck of fate. 
Sir J. Denham, The Sophy. (Latham.) 
5. Lubric; wanton; unchaste. 
Ha' not you seen, Camillo 
... or heard ... 
My wife is slippery ? Shale., W. T., i. 2. 273. 
6. Crafty; sly. 
Long time he used this slippery pranck. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., September. 
Slippery ground. See ground i . 
slippery -back (slip'er-i-bak), n. In the West In- 
dies, a species of skink, as of the genus Eumeces. 
slippery-elm (slip'fcr-i-elm'), . The red elm, 
or moose-elm, U/miis fulrn, of eastern North 
America. It grows 60 or 60 feet high, and affords a 
heavy, hard, and durable timber, largely used for wheel- 
stock, fence-posts, etc. The inner bark is mucilaginous 
and pleasant to the taste and smell, and is recognized offi- 
cinally as an excellent demulcent. This is the slippery 
part, which gives rise to the name. California Slip- 
pery-elm, the shrub or small tree Fremontia Calif ornica, 
the inner bark of which is mucilaginous. 
slippery-Jemmy (slip'er-i-jem"i), w. The three- 
bearded rockling. [Local, English and Irish.] 
slippiness (slip'i-nes), . Slipperiness. [Pro- 
vincial.] 
The slippiness of the way. Scott. 
slipping-piece (slip'ing-pes), n. A piece capa- 
ble of sliding into the tail-piece of a telescope 
and carrying a frame with two movements in 
one plane, into which an eyepiece or microme- 
ter can be fitted. 
slipping-plane (slip'ing-plan), n. In crystal., 
same as gliding-plane. 
slippy 1 (slip'i), a. [< slip 1 , v., + -y 1 . The AS. 
"slipeg (Somner) is not authorized.] Slippery. 
[Provincial.] 
Slippy 2 (slip'i), a. [< slip 1 , n., + -y 1 ."] Full of 
slips: said of rocks which are full of joints or 
cracks. [Midland coal-field, Eng.] 
slippy 3 (slip'i), a. [Var. of sloppy.] Sloppy. 
The water being uncomfortably cold, and in that slippy, 
slushy, sleety sort of state wherein it seems to penetrate 
through every kind of substance. 
Dickens, Cricket on the Hearth, i. 
slip-rails (slip'ralz), n. pi. A substitute for a 
gate, made of rails slipped into openings in the 
posts, and capable of being readily slipped out. 
She walked swiftly across the paddock, through the slip- 
rails, and past a blacks' camp which lay between the fence 
and the river. 
Mrs. Campbell Praed, The Head Station, p. 16. 
slip-rope (slip'rop), . A rope so arranged that 
it may be readily let go ; a rope passed through 
the ring of a mooring-buoy with both ends on 
board ship, so that by letting go one end and 
hauling on the other the ship will be disengaged. 
In a minute more our slip-rope was gone, the head-yards 
filled away, and we were off. 
B. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 249. 
slip-shackle (slip'shak 1 *!), . A shackle to fas- 
ten on to a link of a chain-cable. It may be 
disengaged by the motion of a sliding ring or 
other contrivance. 
slip-shave (slip'shav), w. A point or shave 
made to slip over the nose of a mold-board. 
E. H. Knight. 
slipshod (slip'shod), a. [< slip 1 + shoe + -ed?.~\ 
1 . Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel or 
having no counters, so that the sole trails after 
the foot. 
Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod. Shak., Lear, i. 5. 12. 
The slipshod 'prentice from his master's door 
Had par'd the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor. 
Sirift, Description of Morning. 
A slip-shod, ambiguous being, ... in whom were united 
all the various qualities and functions of "boots," cham- 
bermaid, waiter, and potboy. 
Mem. of R. U. Barham, in Ingoldsby Legends,!. 68. 
Hence 2. Appearing like one in slippers; 
careless or slovenly in appearance, manners, 
actions, and the like; loose; slovenly; shuf- 
fling: as, a slipshod style of writing. 
A sort of appendix to the half-bound and slip-shod vol- 
umes of the circulating library. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, i. 
slip-shoet (slip'sho), . [< ME. *slypescho, < 
AS. slype-scos (for *slype-sco), slebescoii, a slip- 
shoe: see slip 1 and shoe.] A slipper. [Rare.] 
The slip-shoe favours him. 
Stephens, Essayes and Characters, an. 1615, p. 421. 
slip-skint (slip'skin), a. [< slip 1 + slcin."] Slip- 
pery; evasive. 
A pretty slipskin conveyance to sift mass into no mass, 
and popish into not popish. 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Kemonst., ii. 
