slur 
effect, and is still sometimes so used in connection with slush-fund (slush'fund) H. A fund in a 
instrumental musH- ( . m . V ed mark connect- of - war made U P from proceeds of the sale 
of slush, customarily used for a variety of pur- 
poses ; also, the funds or receipts from the sale 
of slush in a camp or garrison. It is sometimes a ~, 
considerable sum, which may be expended at the dis- sluttyt (slllt'i) (I. 
cretion of the commanding officer or a board of officers, _i_ Jl V l,,t' 
without accounting for it to any higher authority. "' ' J 
Slush-horn (slush/horn). . The horn of an ox 
ing two or more notes that are to be 
performed to a single syllable, or f 
without break. A slur Is distinguished 
from a tie in that it always connects notes on different 
degrees. It resembles the legato- and phrase-marks, but 
is properly confined to much fewer notes. 
6t. A slide or glide. 
Monz. Well, how goes the dancing forward ? . . . 
Ger. [As dancing-master.) One, two, three, and a slur. 
slype 
man- sluttishness (slut/ish-nes). n. [< ME. ''slut- 
tixliiH-H. xlirttixiiiv; < xliitlixh + -ness.} The 
character or practices of a slut ; lack of clean- 
liness as regards one's person or domestic sur- 
roundings; slutterv. 
'[< ME. xtiitti. xliittij; <xlut 
dirty. 
Slutty. Cenulentus. Prompt. Parv., p. 460. 
r cii\v, filled with slush, used in the making sly (sli), fl. [Early mod. E. also she; < ME. 
and mending of rigging, etc. 
RnciDg-maaier.l une, uvo, mree, aim a ttur. I-LA/I,/^ 
Wyeherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master, iv. 1. SlUSn-pOt (slush pot), M. A pot used to contain 
sty 
7. In /iriiiliiit/, a blurred or doubled impres- 
sion caused by a shake or uneven motion in the 
sheet. 8. In a knitting-machine, mechanism 
which travels on a bar called the slur-bar, and 
depresses the jack-sinkers in succession, sink- 
in;; a loop of thread between every pair of nee- 
dles. E. H. Kiiiglit. 
slur 2 (sler), H, ['< ME. sloor, slore, mud, clay slu * (slut), H. 
(>xlri/(l, muddy); prob. connected with slur 1 , 
c., and ult. with slodder, sludder.] Mud; espe- 
cially, thin, washy mud. HalUwell. [Prov.Eng.] 
slur-bar (sler'biir), . In a knitting-machine, 
a straight iron bar beneath all the jacks, form- 
ing a guide on which the slur travels. 
slur-bow (sler'bo), n. A kind of crossbow in 
use in the sixteenth century, asserted to be of 
that form in which a barrel was fixed to the 
stock for the better guiding of the missile. 
slurring (sler'ing), n. [Verbal n. of slur 1 , .] 
In music, the act, process, or result of apply- 
ing or using a slur. 
slush or grease. 
ilushy (slush'i), n. [< slush + -y 1 . Cf. slosliy.] 
Consisting of soft mud, or of snow and water; 
resembling slush. 
I gain the cove with pushing prow 
And quench its speed in the slushy sand. 
Browning, Meeting at Night. 
[< ME. slutt, slutte, < Sw. dial. 
sl&ta, an idle woman, slut (cf. slater, an idler), 
= Dan. slatte, a slut; cf. Icel. slottr, a heavy, 
log-like fellow, = Norw. slott, an idler; < Sw. 
dial, slota = Icel. slota, be lazy, = Norw. slutrt, 
droop ; cf. Dan. slat, slattern, slattet, loose, flab- 
by, Norw. sletla (pret. slatt, pp. slottet), dangle, 
hang loose like clothes, drift, idle about, be 
lazy ; akin to D. slodde, a slut, slodde.r, a care- 
less man ; cf. MD. slodderen, spatter (see slod- 
der). Cf. Icel. slotlii, a sloven.] 1. A careless, 
lazy woman; a woman who is uncleanly as re- 
gards her person or her house ; a slattern : of- 
ten used as a name of contempt for a woman 
Slurry (sler 7 i), ?. t.; pret. and pp. slurried, ppr. and (formerly) also for a man. See sloven. 
ftlurryiiifl. [Cf . slur*, slur 2 .] To dirty ; smear. " J ' * *~'~ -' " -" 
[Prov. Eng.] 
slurry (sler'i), n. ; pi. slurries (-iz). [< slurry, 
r.] 1. A semi-fluid mixture of various earths, 
clays, or pulverized minerals with water: a 
term used with a variety of meanings in the 
arts ; specifically, a semi-fluid mixture of some 
refractory material, as ganister, with water: 
used for repairs about the bottom and twyer- 
holes of the Bessemer converter. A slurry of cal- 
cined magnesian limestone, mixed with more or less 
pitch, is sometimes run into molds, which material is 
then consolidated and the pitch removed by gradual heat- 
ing to a high temperature the object being to obtain a 
brick which can he heated and cooled repeatedly without 
crumbling. 
2. A product of the silver-smelting process as 
carried on in England and Wales, consisting of 
a mixture of the sulphurets and arseniurets of 
Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery. 
Shalt., M. W. of W., v. 5. 50. 
2. A young woman; a jade; a wench: used 
lightly. 
Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases 
us mightily, doing more service than both the others. 
Pepys, Diary, Feb. 21, 1664. 
You see now and then some handsome young jades 
among them [Gipsies]: the sluts have very often white 
teeth and black eyes. Addison, Spectator, No. 130. 
3f. An awkward person, animal, or thing. 
Crabbe is a slutt to kerve, and a wrawd wight ; 
Breke euery clawe a sondur. 
Babees Boole (E. E. T. S.), p. 158. 
4. A female dog ; a bitch. 
"You see I gave my cousin this dog, Captain Woolcomb," 
says the gentleman, " and the little slut remembers me." 
Thackeray, Philip, xiii. 
copper, lead, and silver, and sometimes con- slutt (slut), v. t.; pret. and pp. slutted, ppr. slut- 
taming nickel, cobalt, and other metals. ting. [< slut, n.'] To befoul ; render unclean. 
slush (slush), n. [Also slosh, q. v. ; appar. a 
var. of sludge, slutch, which are variants of sleech, 
slitch, confused prob. with slud. The forms slush, 
slosh, also touch slash 2 : see slosh, slash 2 .] 
Sludge, or watery mire; soft mud. 
We'll soak up all the slush and soil of life 
With softened voices ere we come to you. 
Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, viii. 
2. Melting snow ; snow and water mixed. 
A great deal of snow fell during the day, forming slush 
upon the surface of the water. 
C. F. Hall, Polar Expedition in Polaris (1876), p. 118. slutchedt, a. [ME. ; < slutch + -ed 2 .] Muddied. 
3. A mixture of greaseand other materials used nienne he 9wepe to the mnAe in dwhehed Clothe8 _ 
Hit may wel be that mester [need] were his mantyle to 
wassche. Alliterative Poenu (ed. Morris), Hi. 341. 
slutchy (sluch'i), a. [< slutch + -1/1.] Miry; 
A hand at the gangway that has been softened by appli- ninth/ ' A n /a\oiV. ,^ii; * i <i Q 
cations of solvent slush to the tint of a long envelope on s } u jt, . An obsolete spelling of sleuth 2 . 
"public service." sluttery (slut'er-i), . [< slut + -ery.~\ The 
Don Tobacco's damnable Infection 
Slutting the Body. 
Sylvester, Tobacco Battered. 
1 slutch (sluch), . [< ME. sluche, mud, mire : see 
slitch, sleech. Cf. sludge.] Mire ; sludge ; slush. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
He [Ajax] launchet to londe, & his lyf hade. 
Bare of his body, bret full of water. 
In the Slober & the sluche slongyn to londe, 
There he lay ... the long night ouer. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.X 1. 12529. 
as a lubricator. 4. The refuse of the cook's 
galley on board ship, especially grease. What 
came the cook's perquisite at the end of the voyage. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 359. 
5. A mixture of white lead and lime with which 
the bright parts of machinery are covered to 
prevent their rusting. 
Slush (slush), v. t. [< slush, .] 1. To apply 
slush to ; grease, lubricate, or polish with slush : 
as, to slush the masts. 
The officer, seeing my lazy posture, ordered me to slush 
the mainmast. ... So I took my bucket of grease and 
climbed up to the royal-masthead. 
R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 9. 
2. To wash roughly: as, to slush a floor with 
water. [Colloq.] 3. To cover with a mix- 
ture of white lead and lime, as the bright parts 
of machinery. 4. To fill, as the joints and 
spaces between the bricks or stones of a wall, 
with mortar or cement: usually with up: as, to 
xlasli M/MI wall. 5. To slop; spill. H<illiirell. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
slush-barrel (slnsh'bar"el), n. A barrel used 
to hold slush on board a vessel. 
. 
character and practices of a slut ; neglect of 
cleanliness and order; dirtiness of clothes, 
rooms, furniture, or provisions. 
He carried his glasse with him for his man to let him 
drink out of at the Duke of Albemarle's, where he in- 
tended to dine, though this he did to prevent sluttery. 
Pepys, Diary, Nov. 7, 1665. 
sli/', uligli, xlrnh, sleigh, sleih, slry, slreg, 
sieg, scleg (not found in AS.); < Icel. sleegr 
(for "slcegr), sly, cunning, = Sw. sing, handy, 
dexterous; appar. related to Sw. slug, sly, = 
Dan. slug, slu, sly, = D. slum = L(i. slou (> 
Q. schlau, dial, schlauch), sly; perhaps (like 
GJ. verschlagen, cunning, sly, Icel. slfei/r, kick- 
ing, as a horse) from the root of way 1 , AS. 
sleiin (pret. sloh, pp. slogan), strike: see slay 1 , 
and cf . slug 1 . But the relations of these forms, 
and the orig. sense, are uncertain. Hence 
sleight 2 .] If. Cunning; skilful; shrewd. 
Whom graver age 
And long experience hath made wise and sly. 
Fairfax. 
2. Meanly artful; insidious; crafty. 
Slie wyles and subtill craftinesse. 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 1045. 
But in the glances of his eye 
A penetrating, keen, and sly 
Expression found its home. 
Scott, Marmion, iv. 7. 
3. Playfully artful ; knowing; having an inten- 
tionally transparent artfulness. 
Gay wit, and humor sly, 
Danced laughing in his light-blue eye. 
Seott, Rokeby, ill. 5. 
The captain (who heard all about it from his wife) was 
wondrous sly, I promise you, inquiring every time we 
met at table, as if in forgetfulness, whether she expected 
anybody to meet her at St. Louis. 
Dickens, American Notes, xii. 
4f. Artfully and delicately wrought; cunning; 
ingenious. 
And theryn was a towre fulle slyghe, 
That was bothe stronge and hyghe. 
US. Cantab. VS. ii. 38, f. 141. (Halliwett.) 
5f. Thin; fine; slight; slender. 
Two goodly Beacons, ... set in silver sockets bright, 
Cover'd with lids deviz'd of substance sly. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 46. 
6. Illicit: as, sly grog (liquor made in illicit 
stills). [Slang.] 
A sly trade 's always the best for paying, and for selling 
too. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 318. 
On the sly, or sometimes by the sly, in a sly or secret 
manner; secretly. [Colloq.] 
She'll never again think me anything but a paltry pre- 
tense too nice to take heaven except upon flattering 
conditions, and yet selling myself for any devil's change 
by the sly. George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ixxviii. 
Sly goose. See goose. = Syn. 1 and 2. Cunning, Artful, 
Sly, etc. (see cunning^). 3. Roguish, playful, waggish. 
sly-boots (sli'bots), n. [< sly + boots, frequent 
in similar compounds, as clumsy-boots, lazy- 
boots, etc.] A sly, cunning, or waggish per- 
son: also applied to animals. [Humorous.] 
The frog called the lazy one several times, but in vain 
there was no such thing as stirring him, though the sly. 
boots heard well enough all the while. Addison. 
A fish of the genus 
Slyly, slily (sll'li), adv. [< ME. slyly, sleighly; 
< sly + -ly 2 .} If. In an ingenious or cunning 
manner; skilfully. 
Eek men broughte him out of his countree 
Fro yeer to yeer ful pryvely his rente, 
But honestly and slyly he it spente. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 586. 
2. In an artful manner ; with dexterous or in- 
genious secrecy ; craftily. 
sly-bream (sli'brem), 
Jipibulus. 
fish), o. [< ME. sluttish; < slut + 
-f'sftl.] 1. Like a slut or what is characteristic 
of a slut ; not neat or cleanly ; dirty ; devoid of 
tidiness or neatness. 
Why is thy lord so sluttish, I thee preye, 
And is of power better cloth to beye? 
Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 83. 
The people living as wretchedly as in the most impov- 
erish'd parts of France, which they much resemble, being 
idle and sluttish. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 7, 1654. 
2. Belonging to or characteristic of a woman 
of loose behavior. [Rare.] 
Excesse is sluttish; keepe the meane ; for why? 
Vertue's clean conclave is sobriety. Herriclt, F.xcesse. 
slush-bucket (slush'buk"et), . A small bucket sluttishly (slut'ish-li), ndv. [< ME. xhtttusxlili/: 
containing grease used on board ship for va- < sluttixli + -?2i j.,, a sluttish manner- ne'g- 
nous purposes around the masts, rigging, etc. ligently ; dirtily 
But cast you slUy In his way, 
Before he be aware. 
Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 195). 
Would you have run away so slily, lady, 
And not have seen me ? 
Fletcher, Valentinian, ii. 5. 
Slyne (slln), H. Same as deafi. [Eng.] 
Slyness (sli'nes), H. [Formerly also sliiiess; < 
sly + -ness.~\ The quality of being sly, or con- 
duct that is sly, in any sense; craftiness; arch 
or artful wiliness ; cunning, especially satirical 
or playful cunning; archness; the use of wiles 
or stratagems, or the quality inclining one to 
use them. 
By an excellent faculty in mimicry ... he can assume 
my air, and give my taciturnity a slyness which diverts 
more than anything I could say if I were present. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 264. 
Slype (slip), n. [Prop, slipe; a var. of slipi .] In 
some English cathedrals, a passage leading 
