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to independency as to determine the Danish government to 
unite it in 1720, completely and definitively to the crown. 
- SLESWICK, the capital of the duchy of the same name, 
is situated in a pleasant country, on the river Sley. It is a 
long irregular town, containing nearly 7000 inhabitants. 
The houses are in general of brick, and resemble in neatness 
those of Dutch towns. The objects of interest are the cathe¬ 
dral, with its altar and the monuments of the princes ; the 
town-house, a neat structure; the orphan-house, the work- 
house, and the nunnery of St. John; also five churches. 
Here are manufactures of refined sugar, earthenware, leather, 
and sail cloth. Its commerce has been considerably im¬ 
proved since rendering the Sley navigable by the aid of a 
canal. Sleswick is the seat of the chief court of justice, and 
of the provincial gevernment of the duchies of Sleswick and 
Holstein. In the 9th century, Sleswick was a town of some 
note; in the 10th it was destroyed and rebuilt; in the 15th it 
shared the like fate. In its vicinity stands the castle of Got- 
torp; 8 miles north of Kiel, and 126 south-west of Copen¬ 
hagen. Lat. 54. 32. N. long. 9. 35. E. 
SLEW. The preterite of slay. 
SLEY, s. [flae, Sax.] A weaver’s reed. 
Strait to their posts appointed both repair, 
And fix their threaded looms with equal care: 
Around the solid beam the web is ty’d, 
While hollow canes the parting warp divide : 
Through which with nimble flight the shuttles play, 
And for the woof prepare a ready way; 
The woof and warp unite press’d by the toothy sley. 
Croxall. 
To SLEY, v. n. To separate; to part or twist into 
threads; to sieid. 
SLEY, a small river of Denmark, in the duchy of Sleswick, 
which passes by the towns of Gottorp and Sleswick, and falls 
into the Baltic. 
SLEYDINGHE, an inland town of the Netherlands, in 
East Flanders, with 5200 inhabitants. 
To SLICE, v. a. [jrlitan, Sax.] To cut into flat 
pieces.—Their cooks make no more ado, but slicing it into 
little gobbets, prick it on a prong of iron, and hang it in a 
furnace. Sandys. —To cut into parts. 
Nature lost one bv thee, and therefore must 
Slice one in two to keep her number just. Cleaveland. 
To cut off in a broad piece. 
When hungry thou stood’st, staring, like an oaf, 
I slic'd the luncheon from the barley loaf. Gay. 
To cut; to divide.—Princes and tyrants slice the earth 
among them. Burnet. 
SLICE, s. (jlice, Saxon.] A broad piece cut off. 
He from out the chimney took, 
A flitch of bacon off the hook. 
And freely, from the fattest side, 
Cut out large slices to be fry’d. Swift. 
A broad piece. 
Then clap four slices of pilaster on’t, 
That, laced with bits of rustic, makes a front. Pope. 
A broad head fixed in a handle; a peel; a spatula.—The 
pelican hath a beak broad and flat, much like the slice of 
apothecaries, with which they spread plaisters. Hakewill. 
SLICES, in Ship-Building, tapering pieces of plank, 
used for setting up a ship on her ways for launching, &c. 
SLICK, adj. [slicht, Teut.] Sleek.—Glass attracts but 
weakly; some slick stones, and thick glasses indifferently. 
Brown. See Sleek. 
SL1CKENBURGH, a small island near the north-west 
coast of Borneo. Lat. 3. 59. N. long. 112. 31. E. 
SLID. The preterite of slide. 
At first the silent venom slid with ease. 
And seiz’d her cooler senses by degrees. Dry den. 
SLI'DDEN. The participle passive of slide. —Why is 
this people slidden back, by a perpetual backsliding ? Jer. 
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To SLI'DDER, v. n. [plibepian, plibpian, Sax.; slid- 
deren , Teut.] To slide with interruption. 
Go thou from me to fate. 
Now die; with that he dragg’d the trembling sire, 
Slidd'ring through clotted blood. Dryden. 
SLI'DDER, or Sli'ddery, adj. [jlibbop, Sax.] Slip¬ 
pery ; slidder is an old word ; shddery, still a vulgar one. 
— To a drunken man the way is slider. * Chaucer. 
To SLIDE, v. n. slid, pret. slidden, part. pass, [fliban. 
Sax.] To pass along smoothly; to slip; to glide. 
Ulysses, Stheneleus, Tisander slide 
Down by a rope, Machaon was their guide. Denham . 
To move without change of the feet. 
He that once sins, like him that slides on ice. 
Goes swiftly down the slippery ways of vice : 
Though conscience checks him, yet those rubs gone o’er 
He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more. Dryden. 
To pass inadvertently.—Make a door and a bar for thy 
mouth : beware thou slide not by it. Ecclus. —To pass un¬ 
noticed.—In the princess I could And no apprehension of 
what I said or did, but with a calm carelessness, letting 
every thing slide justly, as we do by their speeches, who 
neither in matter nor person do any way belong unto us. 
Sidney. —-To pass along by silent and unobserved progres¬ 
sion. 
Thou shalt 
Hate all, shew charity to none ; 
But let the famish’d flesh slide from the bone, 
Ere thou relieve the beggar. Shakspeare. 
To pass silently and gradually from good to bad.—Nor 
could they have slid into those brutish immoralities of life, 
had they duly manured those first practical notions and dic¬ 
tates of right reason. South. —To pass without difficulty or 
obstruction. 
Begin with sense, of every art the soul, 
Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole; 
Nature shall join you, time shall make it grow 
A work to wonder at. Pope. 
To move upon the iceby a single impulse, without change 
of feet. 
The gallants dancing by the river side. 
They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. Waller. 
To fall by errour.—The discovering and reprehension of 
these colours cannot be done but out of a very universal 
knowledge of things, which so cleareth man’s judgment, as 
it is the less apt to slide into any error. Bacon. —To be 
not firm. 
Ye fair! 
Be greatly cautious of your sliding hearts. Thomson. 
To pass with a free and gentle course or flow. 
To SLIDE, v. a. To put imperceptibly.—Little tricks of 
sophistry by sliding in, or leaving out, such words as en¬ 
tirely change the question, should be abandoned by all fair 
disputants. Watts. 
SLIDE, s. (jhbe. Sax.] Smooth and easy passage.— 
Kings that have able men of their nobility shall find ease in 
employing them, aDd a better slide into their business; for 
people naturally bend to them. Bacon. —Flow; even 
course.—There be, whose fortunes are like Homer’s verses, 
that have a slide and easiness more than the verses of other 
poets. 
SLI'DER, s. [jhbop, Sax.] The part of an instrument 
that slides; this is the Saxon meaning.—Fitting to their size 
the slider of his guillotine. Burke .■—One who slides. 
SLI'DING, s. Transgression : hence back-sliding. 
You seem’d of late to make the law a tyrant. 
And rather prov’d the sliding of your brother 
A merriment than a vice. Shakspeare. 
SLIDING-GUNTER-SAIL, a triangular sail, used in 
boats, bent at its lormost leech to loops or grommets that 
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