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On Eryx altars lays 
A lamb new fallen to the stormy seas; 
Then slips his haulsers, and his anchors weighs. Dry den. 
To let a dog loose. 
The impatient greyhound, slipt from far, 
Bounds o’er the glebe, to course the fearful hare. Dry den. 
To throw off any thing that holds one.—Forced to alight, 
my horse slipped his bridle, and ran away. Swift .—To pass 
over negligently.—If our author gives us a list of his doc¬ 
trines, with what reason can that about indulgences be slipped 
over. Atterbury. 
To SLIP on, v. a. [flepan on, Sax. induerei] To put 
on rather hastily: a colloquial expression: as, to slip on 
one's clothes. 
SLIP, s. Q'hpe, Sax. See the verb neuter.] The act of 
slipping; false step.—Error; mistake; fault. 
There put on him 
What forgeries you please: marry, none so rank 
As may dishonour him. 
But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips, 
As are most known to youth and liberty. Shakspeare. 
A twig torn from the main stock. 
So have I seen some tender slip. 
Sav’d with care from winter’s nip, 
The pride of her carnation train, 
Pluck’d up by some unheedy swain. Milton. 
A leash or string in which a dog is held, from its being so 
made as to slip or become loose by relaxation of the hand. 
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips. 
Straining upon the start. Shakspeare. 
An escape; a desertion. I know not whether to give the 
slip be not originally taken from a dog that runs and leaves 
the string or slip in the leader’s hand. Dr. Johnson .— 
Rather, perhaps, from slip, a counterfeit piece of money. 
See the next sense. 
The more shame for her goodyship, 
To give so near a friend the slip. Hudibras. 
A counterfeit piece of money; being brass covered with 
silver. Steevens. 
Rom. What counterfeit did I give you ? 
Mer. The slip, sir, the slip. Shalcspeare. 
A long narrow piece.—Between these eastern and western 
mountains lies a slip of lower ground, which runs across the 
island. Addison .—The stuff found in the troughs of grind¬ 
stones, on which edge-tools have been ground.—The filings 
of steel, and such small particles of edge-tools as are worn 
away upon the grindstone, commonly called slipp, is used 
to the same purpose in dyeing of silks. Sir W. Petty .—A 
particular quantity of yarn. [ forago , Lat.] Barrett. 
SLI'PBOARD, s. A board sliding in grooves.—I ven¬ 
tured to draw back the slipboard on the roof, contrived on 
purpose to let in air. Swift. 
SLI'PKNOT, s. A bowknot; a knot easily untied— 
They draw off so much line as is necessary, and fasten the 
rest upon the line-rowl with a slipknot, that no more line 
turn off. Moxon. 
SLI'PPER, or Slifshoe, s . [jlippep, Sax.] A shoe 
without leather behind, into which the foot slips easily. 
Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock’d the ground. 
And the press’d watch return’d a silver sound. Pope. 
[Crespis, Lat.] An herb. 
SLI'PPER, ad/, [jlipup, Sax.] Slippery; not firm. 
Obsolete. Perhaps never in use but-for poetical conve¬ 
nience. Dr. Johnson. This may be doubted, as the word 
is in our old lexicography, viz., in Huloet’s Diet. 
The last is slow, or slipper as the slime, 
Oft changing names of innocence and crime. Mir. for Mag. 
SLIPPER ISLAND, a small island in the Eastern seas. 
Lat. 14. 8. N. long. 93. 30. E. 
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SLI'PPERED, adj. Wearing slippers.—The' lean and 
slippered pantaloon. Shakspeare. 
SLI'PPERILY, adv. In a slippery manner. 
SLI'PPERINESS, s. State or quality of being slippery; 
smoothness; glibness.—We do not only fall by the slip¬ 
periness of our tongues, but we deliberately discipline them 
to mischief. Gov. of the Tongue. —Uncertainty; want of 
of firm footing.—Let his ways be darknesses and slipperiness . 
L. Addison. 
SLl'PPERY, adj. [jlipup, Sax.; sliperig, Swedish.] 
Smooth; glib.—They trim their feathers, which makes them 
oily and slippery, that the water slips off. Mortimer .— 
Not affording firm footing. 
Did you know the art o’ the court. 
As hard to leave as keep; whose top to climb. 
Is certain falling; or so slippery, that 
The fear's as bad as falling. Shakspeare. 
His promise to trust to as slippery as ice. Tusser. —Hard 
to hold; hard to keep. 
Thus surely bound, yet be not overbold. 
The slippery god will try to loose his hold; 
And various forms assume, to cheat thy sight. 
And with vain images of beasts affright. Dry den. 
Not standing firm. 
When they fall, as being slippery slanders, 
The love that lean’d on them as slippery too. 
Doth one pluck down another, and together 
Die in the fast. Shakspeare. 
Uncertain; changeable; mutable; instable. 
Oh world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn, 
Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart. 
Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise. 
Are still together; who twine, as ’twere, in love 
Unseparable, shall within this hour. 
On a dissension of a doit, break out 
To bitterest enmity. Shakspeare. 
Not certain in its effect.—-One sure trick is better than a 
hundred slippery ones. L'Estrange. — [Lubrique, Fr.] 
Not chaste.—My wife is slippery. Shakspeare. 
SLIPPERY ROCK, a township of the United States, in 
Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Population 789. 
SLIPPERY ROCK, a township of the United States, in 
Butler county, Pennsylvania. Population 658. 
SLI'PPY, adj. [Dr. Johnson; who calls this term a bar¬ 
barous provincial word, and gives an example only from 
Floyer. The word is pure Saxon, rhpeg, and also of old 
English usage.] Slippery; easily sliding.—From it, being 
moist and slippie, she doth slip. Davies. 
SLI'PSHOD, adj. Having the shoes not pulled up at 
the heels, but barely slipped on. 
The slipshod ’prentice from his master’s door 
Had par’d the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor. Swift. 
SLI'PSLOP, s. Bad liquor. A low word , formed by re¬ 
duplication of slop. 
SLI'PSTRING, or Su'pthrift, s. One who has loosened 
himself from restraint; a prodigal; a spendthrift.—Young 
rascals or scoundrels, rakehells, or slipstrings. Cot- 
grave. 
SLIPTON, a parish" of England, in Northamptonshire; 
3 miles west-by-north of Thrapston. 
SLISH, s. A low word, formed by reduplicating slash. 
What! this a sleeve ? 
Here’s snip and nip, and slish and slash. 
Like to a censer in a barber’s shop. Shakspeare. 
SLISHCARROW, mountains of Ireland, in the county 
of Sligo ; 4 miles south-east of Sligo. 
To SLIT, v. a. pret. and part, slit and slitted. [j'hcan, 
Saxon; slit a, Icel.] To cut longwise.—To make plants 
medicinable, slit the root, and infuse into it the medicine, as 
hellebore, opium, scammony, and then bind it up. Bacon. 
—To cut in general. 
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