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To SLU'BBER, v. n. To be in a hurry; to move with 
hurry.—Which answers are to be done not in a huddling or 
slubbering fashion. Herbert. 
SLU 'BBERDEGULLION, s. [A cant word, probably 
without derivation.] A paltry, dirty, sorry wretch. 
Quoth she, although thou hast deserv’d, 
Base slubberdegullion, to be serv’d 
As thou didst now to deal with me, 
If thou hadst got the victory. Hudibras. 
SLU’BBERINGLY, adv. In an imperfect or slovenly 
manner.—And slubberingly patch up some slight and 
shallow rhime. Drayton. 
SLUCK, a town of Russian Lithuania, in the govern¬ 
ment of Minsk, formerly the capital of a duchy. The dwell* 
ing-houses are built of wood, as is usual in this country, 
but the churches and convents are of stone. It has three 
castles, and a central school, in which are taught the natural 
and mathematical sciences, Latin and German. The Cal¬ 
vinists have here also a high school ;'52 miles south of Minsk. 
Lat. 52- 20. N. long. 27. 50. E. 
SLUDGE, s. [I suppose from flog, slough, Saxon.] 
Mire; dirt mixed with water.—The earth I made a mere soft 
sludge or mud. Mortimer. 
SLUG, s. [slug, Danish, and slock, Dutch, sig¬ 
nify a glutton, and thence one that has the sloth of a glut¬ 
ton. Dr. Johnson.—Tooke refers slug, the reptile, to flog. 
Sax. slow, the past participle of fleacgian, tardare, to slow, 
to make or cause to be slow.] An idler; a drone; a slow, 
heavy, sleepy, lazy wretch.—-Fie, what a slug is Hastings, 
that he comes not! Shakspeare .—As for all other sorts of 
the Turks, both foot and horse, they are but slugs. Fuller. 
—An hindrance; an obstruction.—Usury dulls and damps 
all improvements, wherein money would be stirring, if it 
were not for this slug. Bacon. —A kind of slow creeping 
snail.—We must ascribe it to the brutes, not excepting the 
most stupid of them, the slug and the beetle. Starch. — 
[flecg, a hammerhead, Sax.] A large bullet.—Shooting 
arrows dipt in poison, and discharging slugs against our 
neighbour’s reputation. Barrow. 
To SLUG, v.n. To lie idle; to play the drone; to 
move slowly. 
All he did was to deceive good knights. 
And draw them from pursuit of praise and fame. 
To slug in sloth and sensual delights, 
And end their days with irrenowned shame. Spenser. 
To SLUG, v. a. To make sluggish. — It worsens and 
slugs the most learned. Milton. 
SLUG-A-BED, s. One who is fond of lying in bed; a 
drone. Sherwood. 
Why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed! — 
What, not a word } Shakspeare. 
SLU'GGARD, s. An idler; a drone; an inactive lazy 
fellow. 
Cry mercy, lords, and watchful gentlemen, 
That you have ta’en a tardy sluggard here. Shakspeare. 
SLU'GGARD, adj. Lazy; sluggish. 
Sprightly May commands our youth to keep 
The vigils of her night, and breaks their sluggard sleep. 
Dry den. 
To SLU'GGARDIZE, v. a. To make idle; to make 
dronish. 
Rather see the wonders of the world abroad. 
Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home. 
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. Shakspeare. 
SLU'GGISH, adj. Dull; drowsy; lazy; slothful; idle; 
insipid; slow; inactive; inert. 
Sluggish idleness, the nurse of sin, 
Upon a slothful ass she choose to ride. Spenser. 
SLU'GGISHLY, adv. Dully; not nimbly; lazily; idly; 
slowly. 
SLU'GGISHNESS, s. Dulness; sloth; laziness; idle¬ 
ness; inertness.—It is of great moment to teach the mind to 
shake off its sluggishness, and vigorously employ itself 
about what reason shall direct. Locke. 
SLU'GGY, adj. Sluggish. See the Prompt. Parv. It 
is once used by Chaucer. 
SLUICE, s. [sluyse, Dutch; escluse, Fr.; sclusa, Ital.; 
from clausus, Lat. shut up. Slusa is used in the Salic law 
for clausura, according to Kilian.] A Watergate; a flood¬ 
gate; a vent for water. 
Two other precious drops that ready stood. 
Each in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell 
Kiss’d, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse. 
And pious awe, that fear’d to have offended. Milton. 
Divine Alpheus, who, by secret sluice. 
Stole under seas to meet his Arethuse. Milton. 
To SLUICE, v. a. To emit by floodgates. 
Like a traitor coward, 
Sluic'd out his inn’cent soul through streams of blood. 
Shakspeare. 
SLU'ICY, adj. Falling in streams as from a sluice or 
floodgate. 
And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. 
Suck’d by the spongy clouds from oft' the main: 
The lofty skies at once come pouring down. 
The promis’d crop and golden labours drown. Dry den, 
SLUIN, a small town of the Austrian states, in Croatia; 
23 miles south of Carlstadt. 
SLUIS, a petty town of French Flanders, on the small 
river Senset. 
To SLU'MBER, v. n. [flume]nan. Sax.; sluymeren, 
Dutch; after which form our word was anciently written 
“To slomeryn." Prompt. Parv.] To sleep lightly; to be 
not awake nor in profound sleep.—He that keepeth Israel 
shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalms. —To sleep; to 
repose. Sleep and slumber are often confounded. 
Have ye chosen this place, 
After the toil of battle, to repose 
Your wearied virtue, for the use you find 
To slumber here ? Milton. 
To be in a state of negligence and supineness. 
Why slumbers Pope, who leads the tuneful train, 
Nor hears that virtue which he loves complain ? Young. 
To SLU'MBER, v. a. To lay to sleep.—To slumber his 
conscience in the doing, he [Felton] studied other incentives. 
Wot ton. —-To stupify; to stun. 
Then up he took the slumber'd senseless corse. 
And ere he could out of his swoon awake. 
Him to his castle brought. Spenser. 
SLU'MBER, s. Light sleep; sleep not profound. 
And for his dreams, I wonder he’s so fond 
To trust the mock’ry of unquiet slumbers. Shakspeare. 
Sleep; repose. 
Boy ! Lucius! fast asleep ? It is no matter; 
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shakspeare. 
Ev’n lust and envy sleep, but love denies 
Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes: 
Three days I promis’d to attend my doom. 
And two long days and nights are yet to come. Dryden. 
SLU'MBERER, s. [flumepe, Sax.] One who slumbers. 
—A slumberer stretching on his bed. Donne. 
SLU'MBERING, s. State of repose.—God speaketh, 
yet man perceiveth it not: in a dream, in a vision of the 
night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings 
upon the bed. Job. 
SLU'MBEROUS, adj. Inviting to sleep; soporiferous; 
causing sleep. 
The timely dew of sleep, 
Now falling with soft slumberous weight, inclines 
Our eyelids. Milton. 
SLU'MBERY, 
