Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: slender – slip
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slender, adj. [obscure origin; poss. AFr.] (webplay: insufficient, suffice, supporting, table).
- Slim; thin; tiny; lean; small; slight; incremental.
- Narrow; strait; [fig.] unfounded; lacking apparent support.
slice, n. [OF esclice, splinter, shiver, piece of wood.] (webplay: plate).
Fragment; sliver; thin bit; flat piece.
slide (-s, slid), v. [OE; see sled, n.] (webplay: bounding, door, down, easy, pass, practices, rolling, stopping, summer, word).
- Pass smoothly; move with a continuous motion.
- Slip away; move quietly; go stealthily; proceed unperceived.
- Descend; go quickly; fall into place.
- Push; thrust; slice; easily propel.
- Move; thrust by slipping; [fig.] close; shut.
- Melt; pass; change gradually.
slight (-est), adj. [ME < OScand.] (webplay: addresses, little, small, subject).
- Light; thin; fine; wispy; airy; insubstantial; translucent or transparent.
- Slender; slim; small; delicate; dainty.
- Small in stature; [fig.] unimportant; trifling; insignificant in status.
slight, v. [see slight, adj.]
Disregard; disdain; refuse; reject.
slightly, adv. [see slight, adj.]
Scarcely; minimally; unobtrusively.
slily, adv. [see sly, adj.]
Covertly; secretly; stealthily; quietly.
slim, adj. [Du. 'crooked, perverse, bad, mean'.]
- Slender; gracefully thin.
- Long and narrow; small in diameter in proportion to height.
- Slight; light; barely audible; almost imperceptible.
slink (slunk), v. [OE slincan, to creep, crawl (of reptiles), sink, subside.] (webplay: away, children, corner, steal).
- Shift; tilt; [sound play on “shrink”] shrivel; wither.
- Sneak; steal; creep away quietly.
- Melt; fade; disappear.
- Vanish; go stealthily.
slip (-ped, -ping, -s, slipt), v. [MLG 'slide, glide'.] (webplay: away, bank, between, foot, gradual, hand, held, pass, play, river, smooth, stem, stepping, twigs).
- Move; leave; depart; walk away.
- Steal; glide; shift into place.
- Fall; drop; slide.
- Trip; stumble; step unsteadily; nearly fall; [fig.] let go; give up; experience a setback; be unable to hold on.
- Escape; evade; elude; bypass; surpass; break free from; [phrase “slipped it's limit”] die; pass away; transcend mortality; cross over to eternity.
- Stagger down; sink gradually.
- Pass; turn; slink; change gradually.
- Descend; [fig.] die.
- Step; sneak.
- Phrase. “slip away”: vanish; disappear; [fig.] die.
- Phrase. “slip away”: pass out of sight; [fig.] disappear on the horizon as the sun sets.