Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SLIP'PER-I-NESS
SLIP'PER-I-NESS, n.
- The state or quality of being slippery; lubricity; smoothness; glibness; as, the slipperiness of ice or snow; the slipperiness of the tongue.
- Uncertainty; want of firm footing. – Johnson.
- Lubricity of character.
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