Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SKY'-BUILT – SLACK
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SKY'-BUILT, a.
Built in the sky. – Wordsworth.
SKY'-COL-OR, n.
The color of the sky; a particular species of blue color; azure. – Boyle.
SKY'-COL-OR-ED, a.
Like the sky in color; blue; azure. – Addison.
SKY'-DY-ED, a.
Colored like the sky. – Pope.
SKY'EY, a.
Like the sky; ethereal.
SKY'-HIGH, adv.
High as the sky; very high.
SKY'ISH, a.
Like the sky, or approaching the sky. The skyish head / Of blue Olympus. [A bad word.] – Shak.
SKY'-LARK, n.
A lark that mounts and sings as it flies. Alauda arvensis. – Spectator.
SKY'-LIGHT, n.
A window placed in the top of a house or ceiling of a room for the admission of light. – Pope.
SKY'-POINT-ING, a.
Pointing to the sky.
SKY'-ROCK-ET, n.
A rocket that ascends high and bums as it flies; a species of fire works. – Addison.
SKY'-ROOF-ED, a.
Having the sky for a roof. – Wordsworth.
SKY'SAIL, n.
A small sail sometimes set above the royal.
SKY'WARD, a.
Toward the sky.
SLAB, a.
Thick; viscous. [Not used.] – Shak.
SLAB, n. [W. llab, yslab, a thin strip.]
- A plane or table of stone; as, a marble slab.
- An outside piece taken from timber in sawing it into boards, planks, &c.
- A puddle. [See Slop.] – Evelyn. Slabs of tin, the lesser masses which the workers cast the metal into. These are run into molds of stone.
SLAB'BER, v.i. [D. slabben; G. schlabben, schlabern.]
To let the saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; to drivel. It is also written slaver.
SLAB'BER, v.t.
- To sup up hastily, as liquid food. – Barret.
- To wet and foul by liquids suffered to fall carelessly from the mouth.
- To shed; to spill.
SLAB'BER-ER, n.
One that slabbers; an idiot.
SLAB'BER-ING, ppr.
Driveling.
SLAB'BY, a.
- Thick; viscous. [Not much used.] – Wiseman.
- Wet. [See Sloppy.]
SLAB'LINE, n.
A line or small rope by which seamen truss up the main-sail or fore-sail. – Mar. Dict.
SLACK, a. [Sax. slæc; Sw. slak; W. llac, yslac. See the Verb.]
- Not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope; slack rigging.
- Weak; remiss; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.
- Remiss; backward; not using due diligence; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service; slack in business.
- Not violent; not rapid; slow; as, a slack pace. – Dryden. Slack in stays, in seamen's language, slow in going about; as a ship. – Mar. Dict. Slack water, in seamen's language, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide. Mar. Dict.
SLACK, adv.
Partially; insufficiently; not intensely; as, slack dried hops; bread slack baked. – Mortimer.
SLACK, n.1
The part of a rope that hangs loose, having no stress upon it. – Mar. Dict.