SKY 
SLE 
SLA 
skin and bone, ossa atque pellis totus 
est. — As fall as his skin could hold, dis- 
tentus. — A little skin, cuticula, pellicu¬ 
la. — The foreskin, prfeputium. — The 
skin of a beast, corium, tergus. — A skin 
of parchment, pergamen® scheda.— The 
outward skin of the brain, membrana 
cerebrum ainiciens ; dura mater ( tech¬ 
nical). — The inward, pia mater (techni¬ 
cal). — Coining- between the skin and the 
flesh, intercus.— That often changes his 
skin or form, versipellis. — Having a 
thick skin, callosus_ Of the skin, cu- 
ticularis. — The skin or husk, follicu- 
lus. 
To Skin ( take off the skin), cutem, pellem, 
corium detrahere; pelle or corio exuere. 
— To skin over a wound, cuticulam vul- 
neri obducere; cicatricem vulneri indu- 
cere. — Skinned over, cui cicatrix est 
inducta or obducta. — To skin a flint, 
( stand very hard in buying), quam vilis- 
simo pretio emere; pumice aridiorem 
esse. 
Skinned. — Hard-skinned, duricorius, 
Plin. 
Skinny (very lean), macilentus, strigo- 
sus. 
SKIP, v. salto, salio. — back, resilio. — be¬ 
fore, priesulto. — often, saltito. — To 
skip or jump over, transilio.— To skip 
out, prosilio. — In a skipping posture, 
saltaimndus.-IT To skip over or omit, 
omitto, pnetermitto; praetereo. 
Skip (jump), s. saltus. — By skips, per 
saltus. 
Skipper (jumper), saltator, saltatrix. — 
The skipper (fish), acus minor.-IT A 
skipper or Dutch ship, navis Batava. — A 
skipper or master of a Dutch ship, naucle- 
rus Batavus. 
Skipping, saltatio, saltatus.— Of skipping 
or jumping, saltatorius. 
SKIRMISH, s. preelium leve, levius, par- 
vulum, minutum ; pugna fortuita; pro- 
cursatio; velitatio. — They had some 
skirmishes there, ibi leviaproelia consere- 
bant, Curt. — By way cf skirmish, veli- 
tatim ; velitatione. — Of a skirmish, ve- 
litaris. 
To Skirmish, velitor; procursare cum 
liostibus; levibus proeliis inter se pug- 
nare. — They not long after began to 
skirmish, non multo post coeptum est 
utrinque levibus proeliis decertari. 
Skirmisher, veles, excursor, concursa- 
tor. 
Skirmishing, velitatio. 
SKIRT, fimbria, ora; limbus. — To sit on 
one’s skirts, lateri adhaerere ; memorem 
iram gerere, ultionem meditari. — The 
skirt of a country, confinium, terminus, 
limes. 
SKITTISH (humorsome, wanton), levis, 
inconstans, lasciviens, petulans, proeax, 
protervus ; delicatus (poet.). — d skittish 
humor, lascivia; petulantia. — ds skit¬ 
tish as an old mule, rnulo quovis sene 
protervior. 
Skittishly, exsultim. 
Skittishness, levitas, inconstantia ; las¬ 
civia, petulantia. 
SKREPIN, SCREEN (shelter), umbracu- 
lum, umbella: (sieve), cribrum. 
To Skreen, tego, celo ; obumbro: (sift), 
cribro, cerno. 
SKULK (lie skulking or hide one’s self), 
lateo, latito, delitesco; sese abdere or 
latebris occultare ; se in occultum ab¬ 
dere or in latebras conjicere; fallo.— 
He lay skulking behind a jar, se post cra- 
tera tegebat. — He lay skulking about the 
fens, corpus suum paludibus occultavit 
demersum. — You skulked about on ac¬ 
count. of your cowardly temper ,' ignaviffi 
ratione te in latebras conjecisti. — To 
skulk about, alicujus conspectum fugere, 
ex conspectu alicujus se abdere. 
Bkulking-hole, latebra, latibulum.— To 
creep out of one’s skulking-hole, e latebris 
erumpere. 
SKULL, calva, calvaria. — A skull-cap, pi- 
leolus, pileolum. 
SKY, tether, coelum stelliferum; ffithra 
(poet.) : coelum.— d dear shy, cceli sere- 
nitas. — A bright, ccelum lucidum, cla- 
rum, splendens. — I praise you to the 
sky before him, te facio apud ilium deuin. 
_ If the sky falls, we shall catch larks, 
quid, si redeo ad illos, qui aiunt, quid si 
nunc ccelum ruat? Ter. — Of the sky, 
Skyey, Skytsh, asthereus. — Sky-blue, 
ciesius. 
SLAB ( among sawyers), asser materiie ex- 
timus. — A marble slab or hearth, focus 
e marmore factus. 
SLABBER (spill), madefacio ; aqua, vino, 
etc. conspergere. — To slabber or drivel. 
See Slaver. 
Slabberer (one who spills), qui or quae 
madefacit. 
Slauby, madidus, coenosus, lutosus. 
SLACK, laxus, remissus: (slow), lentus, 
tardus, segnis ; piger : (careless), remis- 
sus, negligens.— He is too slack in re¬ 
quital of kindness, ad referendum gra- 
tiam tardior est. — Seeing I have so lung 
been slack in paying-that gentleman respect, 
quoniam in isto bomine colendotam in- 
dormivi diu. — To be slack in payment, 
debita iegre dissolvere. 
To Slack, Slacken, Iaxo, relaxo, remitto; 
tardo. — To slack or be slackened, laxari; 
remitti; deminui. — To slack or flag, 
tardesco, langueo. — To slacken one’s 
pace, gradum ininnere. — To slacken the 
discipline of war, disciplinam militarem 
laxius regere. 
Slackening, laxatio, remissio. 
Slackly, remisse, lente; perfunctorie, 
Pelron. 
Slackness, mora, tarditas, cunctatio, ces- 
satio. 
SLAG. See Dross. 
SLAKE of a weaver’s loom, textoris pec- 
ten-IT A slake or flake of snow, nivis 
floccus. 
SLAKE lime, aqua ealeem macerare. — 
To slake or quench, exstinguo ; sedo. — 
To slake (be relaxed), sese remittere. — To 
slake hunger, famem satiare or explere. 
— thirst, sitim depellere or sedare. 
SLANDER, v. criminor, de fainS. or exis- 
timatione alicujus detrahere, maledico, 
dedecoro, obtrecto, infamo, diffamo, 
calumnior, calumniam alicui inten- 
dere; alicujus famam or existimatio- 
nem ltedere; fictis criminibus notam 
infamiie alicui inurere ; falsum crimen 
in aliquem struere or int'endere ; alla- 
tro ; rodo, vellico_ They slander every 
body in their festivals, omnes in convi- 
viis rodunt. 
Slander, s. calumnia, falsa criminatio.— 
There were very few whom that slander 
did not reach, erant perpauci, quos ea 
infamia non attingeret. — Slander is the 
punishment of the fair, semper formosis 
fabula poena fuit_ Few people are out of 
the reach of slander, obtrectatio pleros- 
que lacerat. 
Slanderer, calumniator, calumniatrix, 
insectator, lauduin alicujus obtrectator; 
criminator. 
Slandering, calumniatio, obtrectatio, 
maledictio, criminatio. 
Slanderous, inaledicus, probrosus, fal- 
sas criminationes habens. — He utterly 
slighted and disregarded the slanderous 
reports of ill-minded people, malevolorum 
obtrectationes obtrivit. 
Slanderpusly, criminose, maledice, per 
calumniam. 
SLANT, SLANTING, obliquus, trans- 
versus. —To give a slanting blow, oblique 
percutere. 
Slantly, oblique, transverse. 
SLAP (blow), s. ictus ; plaga ; colaphus 
(with the fist). - d slap in the face, alapa. 
-IT Slap dash, cito, celeriter, propere, 
repente ; simul et semel. 
To Slap, verbero, casdo, percutio ; pal- 
mi percutere ; colaphum alicui im- 
pingere. — Slapped (beaten), ictus, per- 
cussus. -11 To slap up or devour 
greedily, abligurio, voro, devoro : (catch 
up greedily), capto. 
SLASH (cut), v. ciedo, conscindo: ( beat 
with a whip), flagro or flagello ciedere or 
concidere. — Slashed (beaten), caisus, 
percussus: (wounded), vulneratus. 
Slash (cut), s. incisura: (blow), ictus, 
colaphus, plaga ciesiin inflicta : (wound), 
vulnus. — He gave him a terrible slash 
with his sword, gladio ei luculentum vul¬ 
nus inflixit. 
Slashing (beating), percussio : ( wound¬ 
ing), vulneratio. 
SLATE (stone), lapis fissilis: (a slate), te- 
gula (or tabula, to write on) e lapide 
fissiii facta. — A slate quarry, lapidis 
fissilis fodina 
To Slate ( cover with slate), tegulis e 
lapide fissiii factis obtegere or conster- 
nere ; tegulas, etc. tecto imponere. 
Slater, qui tegulas, etc. tectis imponit; 
qui tegulas e lapide fissiii facit. 
SLATTERN, mulier sordida, improvida, 
male ornata. 
SLAUGHTER, csedes, clades, strages ; 
trucidatio ; occisio.- d general slaugh¬ 
ter, internecio. — Man-slaughter, homi- 
cidium. — To make an utter slaughter, ad 
internecionem usque delere.— A great 
slaughter being made on every side, cum 
ab omni parte ciederentur, Liv. — A 
slaughter-house, laniena. 
SLAVE, servus ; mancipium; verna ; me- 
diastinus.- d little slave, servulus, ser- 
vula; vernula. — d woman-slave, serva. 
— A galley-slave, servus ad remum pub¬ 
lics triremis datus ; remex catenatus. 
— To be a slave to one, alicui mancipari; 
alicui or apud aliquem servire. — I am 
free, and no slave to any man, liber sum, 
et nullius dominationi parens. — To be 
a slave to one’s passions, animi esse 
impotentis ; indomitis animi cupiditati- 
bus servire. — To make a slave of one, 
aliquem servituti addicere or in servitu- 
tein dare. 
To Slave ( work like a slave), laborando se 
cruciare, discruciare, fatigare ; operi 
nimis diligenter incumbere. 
Slavery (bondage), servitus, servitium ; 
captivitas : (hard labor), labor gravis or 
improbus. 
Slavish, servilis, vernilis. — d slavish em¬ 
ployment, rnunus aliquem laboribus cru¬ 
cians or fatigans. 
Slavishly, serviliter, abjecte; servilem 
in modum. 
Slavishness (bondage), servitus: (laborix 
ousness), laboris assiduitas. 
SLAVER (drivel), sputum, saliva. 
To Slaver, salivam ex ore emittere ; 
saliva, inanare or madere. 
Slaverer, Slavering or drivelling fellow, 
fatuus, ineptus, insulsus. 
SLAY, trucido, contrucido, (to butcher) ; 
jugulo (cut the throat of) ; macto ( slay 
for sacrifice) ; credo, occido, interficio, 
interiino, neco ; conficio. 
Slayer, interfector, interfectrix, inter- 
emptor. — A man-slayer, homicida. — A 
slayer of his parents or governor, parri- 
cida- of a tyrant, tyrannicida. 
Slaying, credes, trucidatio, interemptir. 
— A slaying of parents or governors, par- 
ricidium. 
SLEDGE, SLED (sort of carriage without 
wheels), traha.-IT A smith’s sledge or 
hammer, malleus ferreus major. 
Sledged, trahl vectus. 
SLEEK, levis, politus, levigatus, planus ; 
nitidus. — Sleek and plump, bene cura- 
tus. — How came you to look so sleek, or 
what food has given you this plump car¬ 
cass 1 unde sic nites, aut quo cibo fe- 
cisti tantum corporis? 
To Sleek (malic sleek), levigo, concinno, 
polio. 
Sleekly, polite ; nitide. 
Sleekness, levitas ; nitor. 
SLEEP, somnus, quies. — I have not got 
one wink of sleep all the night long, som- 
num ego h&c nocte oculis non vidi meis. 
— The tedious nights ai e passed without 
sleep, nodes vigilantur amarie. — A 
dead sleep, somnus a tus or gratis. — In 
a dead, deep or sound sleep, somno se- 
pultus or oppressus ; sopore profundo 
mersus ; somno gravi sopitus.— To be 
in a fast or sound sleep, altum dormire ; 
arete et graviter dormire ; alto et gravi 
somno sopitum esse; dormito. — Half 
asleep, semisoinnus. — In one’s sleep, 
in somno orquiete ; secundum quietem ; 
dormiens. — To see a thing in one’s sleep, 
aliquid per quietem videre.— To com¬ 
pose one’s self to sleep, somno se dare, 
dc. — To wake one out of sleep, dortni- 
entem excitare. — To rouse from sleep, 
expergefacio. (But see Awake.) — To 
hinder from sleep, somnum adiinere. — 
To break one’s sleep, somnum abruiri- 
pere.— To get some sleep, somnum ca- 
pere. — To pretend sleep, somnum fin- 
gere.— To cause sleep, soporo, sopio; som¬ 
num afferre, conciliare, invitare, gig- 
nere, ducere, inducere, preebeie.— To 
try to sleep, somnum captare. — To fall 
asleep, go to sleep, obdormio, obdormis- 
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