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SLIGHT, s. Neglect; contempt; act of scorn.—People 
in misfortune construe unavoidable accidents into slights or 
neglects. Richardson. —Artifice ; cunning practice.—As 
boisterous a thing as force is, it rarely achieves any thing 
but under the conduct of fraud: slight of hand has done 
that, which force of hand could never do. South. 
SLIGHT, ado. Slightly.—Is Caesar with Antonius 
priz’d so slight ? Shakspeare. 
To SLIGHT, a. To neglect; to disregard.—If they 
transgress and slight that sole command. Milton. —To 
throw carelessly, unless in this passage to slight be the same 
with to sling. —The rogues slighted me into the river, with 
as little remorse as they would have drowned puppies. 
Shakspeare. — [slichten, Dutch.] To overthrow; to demo¬ 
lish.—The castle was slighted by order of the parliament. 
Ld. Clarendon. 
To Slight over. To treat or perform carelessly. 
His death and your deliverance 
Were themes that ought not to be slighted over. Dryden. 
To SLI'GHTEN, v. a. To neglect; to disregard. Not 
now in use. 
It is an odious wisdom to blaspheme, 
Much more to slighten or deny their powers. B. Jonson. 
SLI'GHTER, s. One who disregards.—I do not believe 
you are so great an undervaluer or slighter of it, as not to 
preserve it tenderly and thriftily. Bp. Taylor. 
SLI'GHTINGLY, adv. Without reverence; with con¬ 
tempt.—If my sceptic speaks slightingly of the opinions he 
opposes, I have done no more than became the part. 
Boyie. 
SLI'GHTLY, ado. Negligently; without regard. 
You were to blame 
To part so slightly with your wife’s first gift. Shakspeare. 
Scornfully; contemptuously.—He spoke slightly and 
reflexively of such a lady: that is, perhaps he treated her 
without a compliment, and spoke that of her which she had 
rather a great deal practise, than hear or be told of. South. 
—Weakly ; without force. 
Scorn not 
The facil gates of hell too slightly barr’d. Milton . 
Without worth. 
SLI'GHTNESS, s. Weakness; want of strength. Neg¬ 
ligence ; want of attention; want of vehemence. 
Where gentry, title, wisdom, 
Cannot conclude but by the yea and no 
Of gen’ral ignorance, it must omit 
Real necessities, and give way the while 
To unstable slightness. Shakspeare. 
SLI'GHTY, ad). Trifling; superficial.—Let them shew 
where any thing is advised or commanded after this sloth¬ 
ful and s/ighty way. Echard. 
SLIGO, a county of Ireland, in the province of Con¬ 
naught, bounded on the east by the county of Leitrim, on 
the south by Roscommon, on the south-west and west by 
Blayo, and on the north by the bay of Donegal. Its 
greatest length, from BundufF in the north, to the Curlew 
mountains in the south, is 39J English miles, and the greatest 
breadth 37. It contains 397,060 acres, or 620 square miles, 
English. The number of houses in 1793 was 11,509, sup¬ 
posed to contain 60,060 inhabitants; but the documents of 
which this is stated were -very imperfect, and the increase 
must have been since considerable. There are 39 parishes, 
of which 16 only had churches when Dr Beaufort published 
his valuable work: they lie in the bishoprics of Elphin, 
Achonry, Killala, and Ardagh. This county and the town 
of Sligo are represented in parliament by three members. 
The soil is generally light, sandy, gravelly loam, or moory, 
mixed with round stones on a strong gravelly bottom 
tolerably productive of potatoes, barley, and oats. In some 
parts the lands are rich and fertile, equally adapted for tillage 
or for fattening the heaviest oxen. Nearly the third part of 
tlris county is an improveable waste. In the northern district. 
lying between the county of Leitrim and the sea, are the 
mountains of Benbulb and Samore. A chain of rough hills 
extends from Lough Gilly to the bounds of Roscommon and 
Leitrim. The barony of Tyreragh, though level along the 
coast, is intersected by large bogs ; and the southern part of 
it is bounded by the Ox mountain, Sliebh-Dham, and a 
great range of desolate hills, that extend across the middle of 
the county ; whilst the Curlews and other mountains cover 
much of the southern part of it. Among these hills there are 
many large lakes, and abundance of rivers. The principal, 
lakes are Lough Gill or Gilly, Temple House lake. Lough 
Talla, and Lough Arva or Arrow. Lough Arrow is about 
eight miles long, full of islands, and of a very irregular form : 
a river of the same name proceeds from it, and running 
northward to Ballysadere, rushes at once into the sea in a stu¬ 
pendous cataract. Lough Garra, on the borders of Roscom¬ 
mon, in the most southern part of the county, communicates 
with Lough Key by the river Boyle, which joins the Shan¬ 
non. Lough Gilly exhibits a variety of beautiful prospects.. 
On the river by w'hich the waters of this lake are discharged 
into the bay of Sligo, stands the town of Sligo, the only 
town of note in the county. There, are, however, ports at 
Ballysadere and Esky-bridge, at the mouths of the rivers 
Arrow and Esky. The most considerable rivers are the Sligo, 
the Bonnet, the Owenmore, the Unshion, the Cooloney, the 
Esky, and the Moy which for many miles separates Mayo 
from Sligo. Lead, iron, silver, and copper ores, have been 
discovered in different places. The mountains near Lough 
Gill exhibit strong indications of coal. The linen manu¬ 
facture is rapidly and universally thriving in this county.- 
All its rivers communicating with the sea, abound in salmon, 
and the coasts teem with a variety of the most delicious 
fish. 
SLIGO, a town of Ireland, chief town of the county of 
the same name, and a sea-port, pleasantly situated at the 
mouth of the river which flows from Lough Gilly to Sligo 
bay. Vessels of 200 tons come up to the quays, and the 
trade of Sligo has been increasing for many years. Its pub¬ 
lic buildings consist of a jail, a barrack, a court-house, an 
infirmary, and a charter school, liberally endowed by the 
Winne family. This town owes the origin of its existence 
to a castle and an abbey, erected here by Maurice Fitzgerald, 
lord justice of Ireland, about the year 1262. The protec¬ 
tion thus afforded, together with the goodness of the har¬ 
bour, gradually attracted numbers of inhabitants, and thus 
the town progressively increased. In the year 1277, this 
castle was destroyed; but it was again rebuilt in 1310. Its 
ruins now evince its former splendour. The county assizes 
are held here, and Sligo sends one member to the imperial 
parliament. In 1788, the number of houses-was 916, and 
the population 8000; but they have since increased; 105 
miles north-west of Dublin, and 66 north-north-east of 
Galway. Lat. 54. 16. N. long. 8 . 20. W. 
SLI'LY, adv. Cunningly ; with cunning secrecy; with 
subtile covertness. 
Were there a serpent seen with forked tongue, 
That slily glided towards your majesty, 
It were but necessary you were wak’d. Shakspeare. 
SLIM, ad). [Serenius refers it to the Icel. slaemr, vilis et 
invalidus. See also slim, Teut. in Killian, which isdescribed 
as an ancient word, and rendered vilis.'] Weak; slight; 
unsubstantial.—The cbuch of Rome indeed was allowed to 
be the principal church. But why ? Was it in regard to the 
succession of St. Peter ? No: that was a slim excuse. 
Barrow. —Now how vain and slim are all these, [arguments 
of fatalists, &c.] if compared with the solid and manly en¬ 
couragement which our religion offers. Kilhngbeck ,—■ 
Slender; thin of shape.—Worthless, [slim, Teut. and schlim. 
Germ, are both applied to denote an evil person.] It is gene-, 
rally used, in the north, according to Grose, in the same sense 
with sly. 
SLIMBRIDGE, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire, 
near the Severn; 3| miles north-by-west of Dursley. Popu¬ 
lation 794. 
SLIME, 
