sliver 
5. A very fine edge left at the end of a piece 
of timber. 6f. pi. The loose breeches or slops 
of the early part of the seventeenth century. 
Sliver lap-machine, in cotton-mannf., a machine which 
receives the slivers or ends from the carding-machine, and 
passes them through rollers which form them into a single 
broad sheet or lap. 
sliver (sliv'er or sir ver), r. [See slirer, n.,slirel, 
r.] I. trans. 1. To cut or divide into long 
thin pieces, or into very small pieces; cut or 
rend lengthwise ; splinter; break or tear off. 
Slips of yew 
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 27. 
The floor of the room was warped in every direction, 
slivered and gaping at the joints. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 3. 
2. To cut each side of (a fish) away in one piece 
from head to tail; take two slivers from. See 
xticrr, n., 4. 
The operation of xliveriny is shown. 
O. B. Qoode, Hist, of the Menhaden (1880), p. 147. 
II. iiitraiis. To split; become split. 
The planks being cut across the grain to prevent sliver- 
ing. The Century, XX. 79. 
sliver-box (sliv'er-boks), 'ii. In spinning, a 
machine for piecing together and stretching 
out slivers of long-stapled wool ; a breaking- 
frame. 
sliyerer (sliv'er-er or sli'ver-er), n. One who 
slivers fish. 
slivering-knife (sli'ver-ing-nif), . A knife of 
peculiar shape used in slivering fish. See ex- 
tract under sliver, n., 4. 
slivering-machine (sliy'er-ing-ma-shen'*), n. 
A wood-working machine for cutting thin 
splints suitable for basket-making, narrow sliv- 
ers for use in weaving, or fine shavings (excel- 
sior); an excelsior-machine. 
slivingt (sliv'iug or sli'ving), n. pi. Same as 
sliver, 6. 
slot, v. A Middle English form of slay 1 . 
sloak, slqakan, . See sloke. 
sloam (slom), n. [Also sloom; cf. slawm, slum 1 , 
slump 1 .] In coal-mining, the under-clay. [Mid- 
land coal-field, Eug.] 
Sloanea (slo'ne-a), n. [NL. (Linna?us, 1753), 
named after Sir Sans Sloane (1660-1753), a cele- 
brated English collector.] A genus of trees, of 
the order Tiliacese, the linden family, type of the 
tribe Slnaneee. It is characterized by usually apetalous 
flowers with four or five commonly valvate sepals, a thick 
disk, very numerous stamens, and an ovary with numerous 
ovules in the four or five cells, becoming a coriaceous or 
woody and usually four-valved capsule. There are about 
45 species, all natives of tropical America. They are trees 
with usually alternate leaves, and inconspicuous white or 
greenish-yellow flowers commonly in racemes, panicles, 
or fascicles, followed by densely spiny, bristly, or velvety 
fruit, the size of which varies from that of a hazelnut to 
that of an orange. Many species reach a large size, with 
very hard wood which is difficult to work ; S. Jamaicensis, 
a tree sometimes 100 feet high, bearing a fruit 3 or 4 inches 
in diameter and clothed with straight bristles like a chest- 
nut-bur, is known in the West Indies as breakax or iron- 
wood. 
Sloaneae (slo'ne-e), n. pi. [NL. (Endlicher, 
1836), < Sloanea + -ese.] A tribe of polypetalous 
plants, of the order Tiliacese, characterized by 
flowers with the sepals and petals inserted im- 
mediately about the stamens, the petals not 
contorted in the bud, often calyx-like and in- 
cised or sometimes absent, and the stamens 
bearing linear anthers which open at the apex. 
It includes 5 genera, of which Sloanea is the type, all trop- 
ical trees with entire or toothed and usually feather- 
veined leaves, natives chiefly of tropical America and Aus- 
tralasia. 
sloat, n. See slot 1 , slot?. 
slob (slob), n. [A var. of slab' 2 . Cf. slub 1 .] 
1. Mud; mire; muddy land; a marsh or mire. 
[Eng.] 
Those vast tracts known as the Isle of Dogs, the Green- 
wich marshes, the West Ham marshes, the Plumstead 
marshes, &c. (which are now about eight feet lower than 
high water), were then extensive slobs covered with water 
at every tide. Sir G. Airy, Athensoum, Jan. 28, 1860, p. 134. 
2. Same as slobber 1 , 2. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
slobber 1 (slob'er), v. [< ME. slobercn; var. of 
slabber 1 , slubber 1 .'] I. inlrans. 1. To let sali- 
va fall from the mouth ; slabber ; drivel ; spill 
liquid from the mouth in eating or drinking. 
As at present there are as many royal hands to kiss as a 
Japanese idol has, it takes some time to xlobber through 
the whole ceremony. Walpole, Letters, II. 472. 
He sat silent, still caressing Tartar, who slobbered with 
exceeding affection. Charlotte Bronte, Shu-ley, xxvi. 
2. To drivel; dote; become foolish or imbecile. 
But why would he, except he slobber'd, 
Offend our patriot, great Sir Robert? 
Swift, Death of Dr. Swift. 
II. trans. 1. To slaver; spill; spill upon; 
slabber. Hence 2. To kiss effusively. [Col- 
loq.] 
5701 
She mode a song how little miss 
Was kiss'd and slobber'd by a lad. 
Simft, Corinna, 
Don't slobberme I won't have it you and I are bad 
friends. C. Iteade, Love me Little, iv. 
To slobber over, to do in a slovenly or half-finished man- 
ner. [Familiar.) 
slobber 1 (slob'er), n. [< ME. slober; var. of xliih- 
ber 1 .] If. Mud; mire. 
Bare of his body, bret full of water, 
In the Slober & the sluche slongyn to londe, 
There he lay, if hym list, the long night ouer. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 12529. 
2. A jellyfish. Also slob. [Prov. Eng.] 3. 
Slaver; liquor spilled ; slabber. 
slobber' 2 (slob'er), n. Same as slub%. 
slobberer (slob'er-er), n. [< slobber 1 + -er 1 .] 
1. One who slobbers. 2. A slovenly farmer ; 
also, a jobbing tailor. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
slobberhannes (slob'er-hanz), . A game of 
cards for four persons, played with a euchre- 
pack, the object of every player being not to 
take the first trick, the last trick, or the queen 
of clubs, each of which counts one point. The 
player first making ten points is beaten. The 
American Hoyle. 
slobbery (slob'er-i), a. [< slobber 1 + -y 1 ."] 1. 
Muddy; sloppy. 
But I will sell my dukedom, 
To buy a slobbery and dirty farm 
In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. 
Shak., Hen. V., iii. 5. 13. 
I chose to walk ... for exercise in the frost. But the 
weather had given a little, as you women call it, so it was 
something slobbery. 
Sictft, Journal to Stella, Jan. 22, 1710-11. 
2. Given to slobbering; driveling. 
Thou thyself, a watery, pulpy, slobbery freshman and 
new-comer in this Planet Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, I. 9. 
slob-ice (slob'is), n. Ice which is heavy enough to 
prevent the passage of ordinarily built vessels. 
Young slob ice may be found around the coast of New- 
foundland from December until April. 
C. F. Hall, North Polar Expedition. 
sloch (sloch), . A Scotch form of slough 2 . 
slock 1 (slok), v. [< ME. slokken, sloken; cf. 
Dan. slukke, extinguish; ult. a var. of slack 1 , 
slake 1 . Cf. slacken.] Same as slack 1 . 
slock 2 (slok), v. t. [< ME. slacken, entice ; origin 
obscure.] To entice away; steal. [Obsolete 
or prov. Eng.] 
That none of the said crafte slocke ony man-is prentise 
or yerely seruaunt of the said crafte, or socoure or mayn- 
teyne ony suche, any aprentise, or yerely seruaunt, goyng 
or brekynge away fro his Maisterres covenaunt, vppon 
payne of xl. d. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 336. 
slocken (slok'n), v. [Also (Sc.) sloken; < ME. 
sloknen, < Icel. slokna = Sw. sloclcna, be 
quenched, go out; as slock 1 + -en 1 .] Same as 
slock 1 for slack 1 . [Obsolete or provincial.] 
That bottell swet, which served at the first 
To keep the life, but not to slacken thirst. 
[Sylvester], Du Bartas, p. 306. (HaUmett.) 
I would set that castell in a low, 
And sloken it with English blood ! 
Kinmont Willie (Child's Ballads, VI. 61). 
When mighty squireships of the quorum 
Their hydra drouth did sloken. 
Burns, On Meeting with Lord Daer. 
slocking-stone (slok'ing-ston), w. In mining, 
a tempting, inducing, or rich stone of ore. 
[Cornwall, Eng.] 
So likewise there have been some instances of miners 
who have deceived their employers by bringing them 
Slocking-Stones from other mines, pretending they were 
found in the mine they worked in ; the meaning of which 
imposition is obvious. Pryce. 
Slodder (slod'er), n. [Cf . MD. sloddcrcn = LG. 
slwldern = MHG. slotern, G. schlottem, dangle, 
= Icel. slothra, slora, drag or trail oneself along ; 
freq. of the simple verb, MHG. sloten, tremble, = 
Icel. slota, droop, = Norw. sluta, droop, slodit, 
sloe, trail, = Sw. dial, slota, be lazy; the forms 
being more or less involved; cf. slotter,slatter, 
slur%.] Slush, or wet mud. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
sloe (slo), n, ; pi. sloes, formerly and dial, slmie. 
[< ME. slo, pi. slon, slan (> E. dial, slan), < AS. 
sla, in comp. slah-, slag-, sldgh- (see sloe-thorn), 
pi. slan; = MD. sleeu, D. slee = MLG. sle, LG. 
sice = OHG. sleha, MHG. slehe, Gr. schlelie = Sw. 
sldn = Dan. slaaen (cf. Norw. slattpa), sloe ; cf . 
OBulg. Serv. Russ. sliva = Bohem. sliva = Pol. 
sliwa = Lith. sliva = OPruss. sliwaytos, a plum ; 
prob. so named from its tartness ; cf . MD. sleemc, 
slee, sharp, tart, same as D. sleeuw = E. slow: 
see slow 1 .'] 1. The fruit of the blackthorn, 
Prunus spinosa, a small bluish-black drupe; 
also, the fruit of P. nmbellata. 
Blacke as berrie, or any slo. 
Rom. of the Hose, 1. 928. 
I, flowering branch of Sloe (Pntmts spino- 
a)., 2, branch with fruit; a, a flower, longi- 
tudinal section. 
sloke 
Oysters and small wrinckles in each creeke, 
Whereon I feed, and on the meager slone. 
W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 1. 
2. The blackthorn, I'runu.? njiinosa, a shrub of 
hedgerows, 
thickets, etc., 
found in Eu- 
rope and Rus- 
sian and cen- 
tral Asia. It is 
of a rigid much- 
branching spiny 
habit, puts forth 
profuse pure- 
white blossoms 
before the leaves, 
and produces a 
drupe also called 
aafoe. (Seedef. 1.) 
The wood is hard 
and takes a fine 
polish, and is 
used for walking- 
sticks, tool-han- 
dles, etc. The 
wild fruit is aus- 
tere and of little 
value ; but it is 
thought to be the 
original of the 
common culti- 
vated plum, P. 
doinestica. (See 
plumi, 2.) The 
sloe, or black sloe, of the southern United States is P. 
umbellata, a small tree with a pleasant red or black fruit, 
which is used as a preserve. 
sloe-thomt (slo'thorn), . [< ME. slotttorn, < 
AS. sldhthorn, sldgthorn, sldghthorn (= G. 
schlehdorn = Dan. slaaentorn),< sla (slah-, etc.), 
sloe, + thorn, thorn.] Same as sloe, 2. 
sloe-wormt, . See slow-worm. 
slog 1 (slog), 13. i. ; pret. and pp. slogged, ppr. slog- 
ging. [Cf. slug 1 .] To lag behind. Halliwell. 
Slog 2 (slog), r. i. ; pret. and pp. slogged, ppr. slog- 
ging. [Cf. slug 3 .] To hit hard, as in boxing. 
See slugs. [Slang, Eng.] 
Slogging, and hard hitting with the mere object of doing 
damage with the gloved hand, earn no credit in the eyes of 
a good judge. E. B. Michell, Boxing and Sparring (Bad- 
[minton Library), p. 162. 
slogan (slo'gan), H. [Sometimes mistaken for 
a horn, and absurdly written slughorn; < Gael. 
sluagh-gairm, a war-cry, < sluagh, a host, army, 
+ gairm, a call, outcry, < gairm, call, cry out, 
crow as a cock: see crow 1 .] 1. The war-cry 
or gathering word or phrase of one of the old 
Highland clans ; hence, the shout or battle-cry 
of soldiers in the field. 
The gathering word peculiar to a certain name, or set 
of people, was termed slogan or slughorn, and was always 
repeated at an onset, as well as on many other occasions. 
It was usually the name of the clan, or place of rendez- 
vous, or leader. Child's Ballads, VI. 135, note. 
The streets of high Dunedin 
Saw lances gleam, and falchions redden, 
And heard the slogan's deadly yell. 
Scott, L. of L. M., i. 7. 
2. Figuratively, the distinctive cry of any body 
of persons. 
The peculiar slogans of almost all the Eastern colleges. 
The Century, XXXIV. 898. 
slogardiet, H. A Middle English form of slug- 
gai'dij. 
slogger 1 (slog'er), n. [< s%2 + ^.i. cf. 
slugger.] One who hits hard, as in boxing or 
ball-playing. See slugger. [Slang, Eng.] 
He was called Slogger Williams, from the force with 
which it was supposed he could hit. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 5. 
He was a vigorous slogger, and heartily objected to being 
bowled first ball. 
Standard (London), Dec. 1, 1885. (Encyc. Diet.) 
slogger 2 (slog'er), n. [Said to be a contraction of 
"slow-goer; cf. torpid."] The second division of 
race-boats at Cambridge, England. Slang Diet. 
sloggyt, . A Middle English form of slugyy. 
slogwood (slog'wud), n. [Local name.] A 
small West Indian tree, Beilschmiedia pendula 
of the Laurineee. 
sloid, sloyd (sloid), n. [< Sw. slojd, skill, dex- 
terity, esp. mechanical skill, manufacture, 
wood-carving, = E. sleight: see sleight 2 .] A 
system of manual training which originated 
iu Sweden. It is not confined to wood-working, as is 
frequently supposed (though this is the branch most 
commonly taught), but is work with the hands and with 
simple tools. The system is adapted to the needs of dif- 
ferent grades of the elementary schools, and is designed 
to develop the pupils mentally and physically. Its aim 
is, therefore, not special technical training, but general 
development and the laying of a foundation for future in- 
dustrial growth. 
slokan (slo'kan), . [Cf. sloke.] Same as sloke. 
sloke, sloak (slok), . [Sc., also slake, slaik, 
sleegh; cf. sleech, sludge.] 1. The oozy vege- 
