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SLIME, s. [fhm, Saxon; sligtn, Dutch.] Viscous 
mire ; any glutinous substance. 
The higher Nilus swells 
The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman 
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shakspeare. 
SLI'MINESS, s. Viscosity; glutinous matter.-—Divers 
little creatures are procreated by the sun’s heat, and the 
earth’s sliminess. Austin. 
SLI'MNESS, s. State or quality of being slim. 
SLI'MY, adj. [Sax. flimig.] Overspread with slime. 
My bended hook shall pierce 
Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up, 
I’ll think them every one an Antony. Shalcspeare. 
Viscous; glutinous. 
Then both from out hell-gates, into the waste, 
Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark. 
Hovering upon the waters, what they met 
Solid or slimy, as in raging sea, 
Tost up and down, together crowded drove. Milton. 
SLINDON, a parish of England, in Sussex; 3| miles 
west-by-north of Arundel. Population 437. 
SLI'NESS, s. Designing artifice.—By an excellent fa¬ 
culty in mimickry, my correspondent can assume my air, 
and give my taciturnity a slyness, which diverts more than 
any thing I could say Addison. 
SLINFOLD, a parish of England, in Sussex; 4 miles 
west-by-north of Horsham. Population 549. 
SLING, s. [sliunga, Su. Goth. ; slinghe, Teut. See 
also To Siing.] A missive weapon made by a strap and 
two strings; the stone is lodged in the strap, and thrown by 
loosing one of the strings. 
The Tuscan king 
Laid by the lance, and took him to the sling: 
Thrice whirl’d the thong around his head, and threw 
The heated lead, half melted as it flew. Dry den. 
A throw; a stroke. 
At one sling 
Of thy victorious arm, well-pleasing son. 
Both sin and death, and yawning grave at last 
Through chaos hurl’d, obstruct the mouth of hell. Milton. 
A kind of hanging bandage, in which a wounded limb is 
sustained. 
To SLING, v. a. [slinghen, Teut.; flingan, Sax.] To 
throw by a sling.-—To throw; to cast. 
^Etna’s entrails fraught with fire, 
That now casts out dark fumes and pitchy clouds. 
Incens'd, or tears up mountains by the roots. 
Or slings a broken rock aloft in air. Addison, 
To hang loosely by a string. 
From rivers drive the kids, and sling your hook; 
Anon I’ll wash e’m in the shallow brook. Dryden. 
To move by means of a rope. 
Ccenus I saw amidst the shouts 
Of mariners, and busy care to sling 
His horses soon ashore. Dryden. 
SLINGELANDT (Peter Van), a painter, was born at 
Leyden in 1640. He was a laborious disciple of Gerard 
Dow, and wrought in the highly finished style of that 
master; and is as neat in his execution. His pictures, how¬ 
ever, do not possess the relish found in those of Gerard, 
either in composition or colour; and they are tasteless in 
design. He is said to have been most patiently persevering 
and industrious, employing months and years upon one 
performance; and never being satisfied till he found every 
individual part imitated, however trivial, of any object which 
he had chosen to represent. His works are often passed off 
for those of his master, and of Mieris; and it sometimes 
demands a considerable portion of connoisseurship to dis¬ 
cover the imposition. He died in 1691. 
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SLI'NGER, s. One who slings or uses the sling.—The 
slingers went about it; and smote it. 2 Kings. 
SLINGER’S BAY, a bay of the Eastern Indian ocean, 
on the north coast of New Ireland. Lat. 3 . S. long. 151. E. 
SLINGER’S BAY, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, between 
the island of Ramos and St. Juan. 
SLINGLEY, a township of England, in Durham; 5| miles 
south-west of Sunderland. 
SL1NGSBY, a parish of England, North Riding of York¬ 
shire; 6 miles west-north-west of New Malton. Population 
464. 
To SLINK, v. n. preter. slunk, [plincan, Saxon, to 
creep.'] To sneak; -to steal out of the way.—We will slinlc 
away in supper time, disguise us at my lodging, and return 
all in an hour. Shakspeare. 
To SLINK, v. a. To cast ; to miscarry of; A low word. 
-—To prevent a mare’s slinking her foal in snowy weather, 
keep her where she may have good spring water to drink. 
Mortimer. 
SLINK, adj. Produced before its time; applied to the 
young of a beast.—-This membrane does not properly apper¬ 
tain to dogs, &c.; yet it may be found in slink calves. 
Student. 
To SLIP, v. n. [plipan, Sax.; slippen, Dutch; 
schlipfen. Germ., from schlipfe, superficies lubrica. 
Sax. plipe, lubricum. Wacbter] To slide; not to tread 
firm.—A skilful dancer on the rope slips willingly, and 
makes a seeming stumble that you may think him in great 
hazard, while he is only giving you a proof of his dexterity. 
Dryden. —To slide; to glide.—Oh, Ladon, happy Ladoni 
rather slide than run by her, lest thou should’st make her legs 
slip from her. Sidney. —To move or fly out of place,— 
Sometimes the ancle-bone is apt to turn out on either side by 
reason of relaxation, which though you reduce, yet, upon the 
least walking on it, the bone slips out again. Wiseman. — 
To sneak; to slink. 
From her most beastly company 
1 again refrain, in mind to slip away. 
Soon as appear’d safe opportunity. Spenser. 
To glide; to pass unexpectedly or imperceptibly. 
Slipping from thy mother’s eye thou went’st 
Alone in the temple; there wast found 
Among the gravest rabbie* disputant, 
On points and questions fitting Moses* chair. Milton. 
To fall into fault or error. 
If he had been as you, 
And you as he, you would have slipt like him; 
But he like you would not have been so stem. Shakspeare. 
To creep by oversight.—Some mistakes may have slipt 
into it; but others will be prevented. Pope. —To escape; 
to fall away out of the memory.—Use the most proper 
methods to retain the ideas you have acquired; for the mind 
is ready to let many of them slip, unless some pains be taken 
to fix them upon the memory. Watts. 
To SLIP, v. a. To convey secretly.—In his officious 
attendance upon his mistress he tried to slip a powder into 
her drink. Arbuthnot. —To lose by negligence. 
Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn 
Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Milton. 
For watching occasions to correct others in their discourse, 
and not to slip any opportunity of shewing their talents, 
scholars are most blamed. Locke. —To part twigs from the 
main body by laceration.—The runners spread from the 
master-roots, and have little sprouts or roots to them, which 
being cut four or five inches long, make excellent sets: the 
branches also may be slipped and planted. Mortimer.— 
To escape from; to leave si ily. 
This bird you aim’d at, though you hit it not. 
—Oh, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound. 
Which runs himself, and catches for his master. Shakspeare. 
To let loose. 
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