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cculation, vol. xix. 516, is pre-eminently important, as re¬ 
cording the introduction of that practice into England, and 
displaying the candour, as well as good sense, of the writer, 
in every thing relative to the subject. 
He bequeathed his museum to the public, on condition of 
a payment, to his heirs of 20,000/. a sum said barely to 
equal the intrinsic value of the precious metals and gems, 
of the medals and mineral specimens. 
SLOANEA [so named by Plunder, in memory of Sir 
Hans Sloane, Bart.], in Botany, a genus of the class polyan- 
dria, order monogynia, natural order of amentaceae, tiliaceae 
(Juss.J —Generic Character. Calyx : perianth one-leafed, 
five-parted: segments ovate, a little unequal. Corolla none. 
Stamina: filaments numerous (above 100) very short, in¬ 
serted into a villose receptacle. Anthers oblong, growing to 
the side of the filaments. Pistil: germ oblong, angular. 
■Stylesimple. Stigmas five-cleft, acute. Pericarp: capsule 
•large, roundish, echinate, with deciduous prickles, five-celled, 
five-valved: partitions opposite to the valves. Seeds solitary 
or in pairs, oblong, involved in a berried aril. The number 
of parts varies from three to six. Audi. Sw. — Essential 
Character. Calyx one-leafed, from five to nine cleft. 
Corolla none. Anthers growing to the filaments below the 
top. Capsule echinate, from three to six-celled, from three 
to six-valved. Seeds two in a berried aril. 
1. Sloanea dentata.—Leaves ovate; stipules cordate-trian¬ 
gular, serrate. The trunk of this tree rises to forty or fifty 
feet, and is two feet in diameter. The leaves are large like 
■those of the chesnut. The flowers also are very large, in¬ 
dented at the edge, oval, and ending in a point, on a long 
pedicel, having two stipules deeply toothed at the base. 
They grow in bunches from the axils.—Native of South 
America. 
2. Sloanea Massoni.—This is a tall tree, with alternate 
leaves more than a foot long, angular-toothed, nerved, 
smooth on both sides, somewhat coriaceous, on long round 
pubescent petioles. Flowers in axillary racemes towards the 
end of the branchlets, much shorter than the leaves, many- 
flowered, nodding, on long peduncles mostly two together, 
bearing each one biggish green flower. It differs from the 
preceding in having the leaves rounded at the end; the 
stipules linear; the flowers smaller with the calyx commonly 
five-leaved; and the capsules with longer bristles.—Native 
of the West Indies. 
3. Sloanea sinemariensis—Leaves roundish-ovate, quite 
entire; capsules ovate, bristly, opening from the top. Height 
forty or fifty feet, with a cloven ferruginous or cinereous bark. 
Racemes axillary, shorter than the petioles, many-flowered. 
Flowers small, on short one-flowered peduncles, with a 
single little bracte at the base. Capsule the size of a large 
walnut, four or five celled and valved, the valves red within. 
Seeds solitary, covered with a red pulpy aril.—Native of 
South America and the West Indian Islands. 
SLOATH, or Sloth, the name of an animal remarkable 
for its slow motion. Of this animal there are two species. 
See Bradypus. 
SLOATS, s. Of a cart, are those underpieces which 
keep the bottom together. Bailey. 
To SLO'BBER, v. a. [slobberen, Teut.] To slaver; 
to spill upon; to slabber. See To Slabber. 
SLO'BBER, s. Slaver; liquor spilled. 
SLO'BBERY, adj. [ slobberen , Teut. la.rum sive flacci- 
dum esse.] Moist; dank; floody. 
I will sell my dukedom, 
To buy a slobbery and dirty farm 
In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shakspeare. 
SLOBODSKOI, a town of the east of European Russia, 
in the government of Viatka, on the river Yiatka. It con¬ 
tains about 4700 inhabitants, who carry on a pretty active 
traffic with Archangel, in corn, tallow, flax, and furs. They 
have some manufactures of soap and leather, and in the 
environs there are several forges. The rearing of cattle and 
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of bees is carried on in the neighbouring* country, to a very 
considerable extent; 20 miles north-north-east of Viatka. 
Lat. 58. 40. N. long. 50. 44. E. 
To SLOCK, or To Slo'cken, v. n. [slockna, Su. Goth. 
sloecka, Icel.] To slake; to quench. Slockeji is our nor¬ 
thern word. 
SLODTZ (Rene Michael), surnamed Michael Angelo, 
a sculptor, was born at Paris in 1705. He studied under his 
father, who was a native of Antwerp, after which he went 
to Rome, and upon his return he was admitted a member of 
the academy of Paris, where he died in 1764. One of his 
most considerable works is the monument of Languet, in the 
church of St. Sulpice. 
SLOE, s. [fla, Saxon ; s/ee, Danish.] The fruit of the 
blackthorn, a small wild plum. 
The fair pomegranate might adorn the pine. 
The grape the bramble, and the sloe the vine. Blackmore. 
SLOKUM’S ISLAND, one of the Elizabeth’s islands, on 
the coast of the United States, in Buzzard’s bay, Massachu¬ 
setts. 
SLOLEY, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 3 miles 
north-north-east of Coltishall. 
SLONIM, a town of Russian Lithuania, in the govern¬ 
ment of Grodno, of which it was for some years the capital. 
It is tolerably built for so backward a country, contains 
4500 inhabitants, and has some trade in com, leather, and 
potash. Its best building was formerly a Jesuits’ college; 
44 miles south-south-west of Novogrodek. Lat. 52.50. N. 
long. 25. 19. E. 
SLOOM, or Sloum, s. [Teut. sluymen, leviter dormire 
Kilian. Sax. jlumejiian.] A gentle sleep or slumber. 
North. Grose. 
SLOO'MY, adj. [lome, Teut. tardus, piger.] Sluggish ; 
slow. Skinner. 
SLOOP, s. [chaloupe, Fr.] A small ship, commonly 
(but not always) with only one mast. 
SLOOTEN, a village of the Netherlands, near Amster¬ 
dam. 
SLOOTEN, a village of the Netherlands, in the province 
of Friesland, on a lake of the same name, near the Zuyder 
Zee. Population 1200; 10 miles east of Staveren. 
To SLOP, v. a. To drink grossly and greedily.—To 
soil by letting water or other liquor fall. 
SLOP, s. Mean and vile liquor of any kind. Generally 
some nauseous or useless medicinal liquor. 
But thou, whatever slops she will have bought. 
Be thankful. Dryden. 
Soil or spot made by water or other liquors fallen upon the 
place. 
SLOP, s. [probably from the Sax. plopen, loose ; to- 
plupen, relaxatus. The word was formerly used in the sin¬ 
gular number: as in Chaucer, “ His overest sloppe is not 
worth a mite,” Chan. Yem. Prol. And in Barret’s Alv. 
1580. “ A slop or an over stockapplied to female dress 
also; as slops had before been by Huloet, and as that word 
is used in our Homilies.] Trowsers; large and loose breeches; 
drawers.—What said master Dombledon about the satin for 
my short cloak and slops ? Shakspeare. 
Six great slops. 
Bigger than three Dutch hoys! B. Jonson. 
Ready-made clothes. See Slop-seller. 
SLOP-SELLER, s. One who sells ready-made clothes. 
—The slop-seller is a person crept into the navy, I mean 
to monopolize the vending of clothing only, but since 
the restoration of king Charles the Second; nor, then, but 
by degrees, as he could make interest, and have interest in 
the affair. Maydmani. 
SLOP-SHOP, s. Place where ready-made clothes are 
sold. 
SLOPE, adj. [This word is not derived from any satis¬ 
factory original. Mr. Tooke calls it the past participle of the 
Sax. 
