Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SLEN'DER-LY, adv.

1. Without bulk.
2. Slightly; meanly; as, a debt to be slenderly regarded. Hayward.
3. Insufficiently; as, a table slenderly supplied.

SLEN'DER-NESS, n.

1. Thinness; smallness of diameter in proportion to the length; as, the slenderness of a hair. Newton.
2. Want of bulk or strength; as, the slenderness of a cord or chain.
3. Weakness; slightness; as, the slenderness of a reason. – Whitgifte.
4. Weakness; feebleness; as, the slenderness of a constitution.
5. Want of plenty; as, the slenderness of a supply.
6. Spareness; as, slenderness of diet.

SLENT, v.i.

To make an oblique remark. [Not used. See Slant.]

SLEPT, v. [pret. and pp. of Sleep.]

SLEW, v. [pret. of Slay.]

SLEY, n. [Sax. slæ.]

A weaver's reed. [See Sleave and Sleid.]

SLEY, v.t.

To separate; to part threads and arrange them in a reed; as weavers.

SLICE, n.

1. A thin broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
2. A broad piece; as, a slice of plaster. – Pope.
3. A peel; a spatula; an instrument consisting of a broad plate with a handle, used by apothecaries for spreading plasters, &c.
4. In ship-building, a tapering piece of plank to be driven between the timbers before planking. – Encyc.

SLICE, v.t. [G. schleissen, to slit; Sax. slitan.]

1. To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin broad piece. – Sandys.
2. To cut into parts. – Cleaveland.
3. To cut; to divide. – Burnet.

SLICED, pp.

Cut into broad thin pieces.

SLICH, n.

The ore of a metal when pounded and prepared for working. – Encyc.

SLIC-ING, ppr.

Cutting into broad thin pieces.

SLICK, a. [or n. or adv. or v.]

The popular pronunciation of sleek, and so written by some authors.

SLICK'EN-SIDES, n.

A name which workmen give to a variety of galena in Derbyshire. – Ure.

SLID, or SLID'DEN, pp. [of Slide.]

SLID, v. [pret. of Slide.]

SLID'DER, or SLID'DER-LY, a. [See Slide.]

Slippery. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.

SLID'DER, v.i. [Sax. sliderian, slidrian. See Slide.]

To slide with interruption. [Not in use.] – Dryden.

SLIDE, n.¹

1. A smooth and easy passage; also, a slider. – Bacon.
2. Flow; even course. – Bacon.

SLIDE, n.²

In music, a grace consisting of two small notes moving by degrees.

SLIDE, v.i. [pret. slid; pp. slid, slidden. Sax. slidan; probably glide, with a different prefix; G. gleiten.]

1. To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without bounding or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, a sled slides on snow or ice, a snow-slip slides down the mountain's side.
2. To move along the surface without stepping; as, a man slides on ice.
3. To pass inadvertently. Make a door and a bar for thy mouth; beware thou slide not by it. – Ecclus.
4. To pass smoothly along without jerks or agitation; as, ship or boat slides through the water.
5. To pass in silent unobserved progression. Ages shall slide away without perceiving. – Dryden.
6. To pass silently and gradually from one state to another; as, to slide insensibly into vicious practices, or into the customs of others.
7. To pass without difficulty or obstruction. Parts answ'ring parts shall slide into a whole. – Pope.
8. To practice sliding or moving on ice. They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. – Waller.
9. To slip; to fall.
10. To pass with an easy, smooth, uninterrupted course or flow.

SLIDE, v.t.

1. To slip; to pass or put in imperceptibly; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question. Watts.
2. To thrust along; or to thrust by slipping; as, to slide along a piece of timber.

SLID-ER, n.

1. One that slides.
2. The part of an instrument or machine that slides.

SLID-ING, n.

Lapse; falling; used in backsliding.

SLID-ING, ppr.

Moving along the surface by slipping; gliding; passing smoothly, easily or imperceptibly.