Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SLOP-ING-LY, adv.

Obliquely; with a slope.

SLOP'PI-NESS, n. [from sloppy.]

Wetness of the earth; muddiness.

SLOP'PY, a. [from slop.]

Wet, as the ground; muddy; plashy.

SLOP'SELL-ER, n.

One who sells ready made clothes.

SLOP'SHOP, n.

A shop where ready made clothes are sold.

SLOSH, n. [See SLUSH.]

SLOT, n.¹

A broad flat wooden bar.

SLOT, n.² [The Saxon has slætinge, tracks.]

The track of a deer. – Drayton.

SLOT, v.t. [D. sluiten, to shut; G. schliessen; Dan. slutter; Sw. sluta; from the root of L. claudo.]

To shut with violence; to slam, that is, to drive. [Not in use or local.] – Ray.

SLOTH, n. [Sax. slæwth, from slaw, slow. See Slow.]

1. Slowness; tardiness. I abhor / This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. – Shak.
2. Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. They change their course to pleasure, ease and sloth. – Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. – Franklin.
3. The popular name of a genus of tardigrade edentate mammals, – a genus which comprises only two species, viz. Bradypus tridactylus or Ai, about the size of a common cat, and Bradypus didactylus or Unan, about half the size of the former, both of South America. These animals are so called from the remarkable slowness of their motions. It is said that their greatest speed seldom exceeds three yards an hour. They feed on vegetables.

SLOTH, v.i.

To be idle. [Not in use.] – Gower.

SLOTH'FUL, a.

Inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He that is slothful in his work, is brother to him that is a great waster. – Prov. xviii.

SLOTH'FUL-LY, adv.

Lazily; sluggishly; idly.

SLOTH'FUL-NESS, n.

The indulgence of sloth; inactivity; the habit of idleness; laziness. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. – Prov. xix.

SLOT'TED, a.

Shut with violence. [Local.]

SLOT'TER-Y, a. [G. schlotterig, negligent; schlottern, to hang loosely, to wabble. See Slut.]

1. Squalid; dirty; sluttish; untrimmed. [Not in use.] Chaucer.
2. Foul; wet. [Not in use.] – Pryce.

SLOT'TING, ppr.

Shutting with violence; slamming.

SLOUCH, n. [This word probably belongs to the root of lag, slug.]

1. A hanging down; a depression of the head or of some other part of the body; an ungainly, clownish gait. – Swift.
2. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. – Gay.

SLOUCH, v.i.

To hang down; to have downcast clownish look, gait or manner. – Chesterfield.

SLOUCH, v.t.

To depress; to cause to hang down; as, to slouch the hat.

SLOUCH'ED, pp.

Made to hang down; depressed.

SLOUCHING, ppr.

1. Causing to hang down.
2. adj. Hanging down walking heavily and awkwardly.

SLOUGH, n. [slou; Sax. slog; W. yslwç, a gutter or slough, from llwç, a lake.]

1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. – Milton.
2. [pron. sluff.] The skin or cast skin of a serpent. [Its use for the skin in general, in Shakspeare, is not authorized.]
3. [pron. sluff.] The part that separates from a foul sore. – Wiseman. The dead part which separates from the living in mortification. – Cooper.

SLOUGH, v.i. [sluff.]

To separate from the sound flesh; to come off; as the matter formed over a sore; a term in surgery. To slough off, to separate from the living parts, as the dead part in mortification.

SLOUGH'Y, a. [slou'y.]

Full of sloughs; miry. – Swift.