Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. A plane or table of stone; as, a marble slab.
2. An outside piece taken from timber in sawing it into boards, planks, &c.
3. 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.

1. To sup up hastily, as liquid food. – Barret.
2. To wet and foul by liquids suffered to fall carelessly from the mouth.
3. To shed; to spill.

SLAB'BER-ER, n.

One that slabbers; an idiot.

SLAB'BER-ING, ppr.

Driveling.

SLAB'BY, a.

1. Thick; viscous. [Not much used.] – Wiseman.
2. 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.]

1. Not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope; slack rigging.
2. Weak; remiss; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.
3. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service; slack in business.
4. 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.