Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SLUG'A-BED – SLUR
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SLUG'A-BED, n.
One who indulges in lying abed. [Not used.] – Shak.
SLUG'GARD, a.
Sluggish; lazy. – Dryden
SLUG'GARD, n. [from slug and ard, slow kind.]
A person habitually lazy, idle and inactive; a drone. – Dryden.
SLUG'GARD-IZE, v.t.
To make lazy. [Little used.] – Shak.
SLUG'GISH, a.
- Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
- Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish river or stream.
- Inert; inactive; having no power to move itself. Matter is sluggish and inactive. – Woodward.
SLUG'GISH-LY, adv.
Lazily; slothfully; drowsily; idly; slowly. – Milton.
SLUG'GISH-NESS, n.
- Natural or habitual indolence or laziness; sloth; dullness; applied to persons.
- Inertness; want of power to move; applied to inanimate matter.
- Slowness; as, the sluggishness of a stream.
SLUG'GY, a.
Sluggish. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.
SLUGS, n.
Among miners, half-roasted ore.
SLUICE, or SLUSE, a.
Falling in streams, as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. – Dryden.
SLUICE, or SLUSE, n. [D. sluis, a sluice, a lock; G. schleuse, a floodgate, and schloss, a lock, from schliessen, to shut; Sw. sluss; Dan. sluse; Fr. ecluse; It. chiusa, an inclosure. The Dutch sluiten, Dan. slutter, to shut, are the G. schliessen; all formed on the elements of Ld, Ls, the root of Eng. lid, L. claudo, clausi, clausus; Low L. exclusa. The most correct orthography is Sluse.]
- The stream of water issuing through a flood-gate; or the gate itself. If the word had its origin in shutting, it denoted the frame of boards or planks which closes the opening of a mill dam; but I believe it is applied to the stream, the gate and channel. It is a common saying, that a rapid stream runs like a sluse.
- An opening; a source of supply; that through which any thing flows. Each sluice of affluent fortune open'd soon. – Harte.
SLUICE, or SLUSE, v.t.
To emit by flood gates. [Little used.] – Milton.
SLU'ING, ppr.
Turning on its axis.
SLUM'BER, n.
- Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carelessness it shall settle into slumber, and from slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep. – South.
- Sleep; repose. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. – Dryden.
SLUM'BER, v.i. [Sax. slumerian; D. sluimeren; G. schlummern; Dan. slummer, slumrer; Sw. slumra.]
- To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. – Ps cxxi.
- To sleep. Slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style. – Milton.
- To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness or inactivity. Why slumbers Pope? – Young.
SLUM'BER, v.t.
- To lay to sleep.
- To stun; to stupefy. [Little used and hardly legitimate.] – Spenser. Wotton.
SLUM'BER-ED, pp.
Laid to sleep.
SLUM'BER-ER, n.
One that slumbers.
SLUM'BER-ING, ppr.
Dozing; sleeping.
SLUM'BER-ING-LY, adv.
In a slumbering manner.
SLUM'BER-OUS, or SLUM'BER-Y, a.
- Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. While pensive in the slumberous shade. – Pope.
- Sleepy; not waking. – Shak.
SLUMP, v.i. [G. schlump, Dan. and Sw. slump, a hap or chance, accident, that is, a fall.]
To fall or sink suddenly into water or mud, when walking on a hard surface, as on ice or frozen ground, not strong enough to bear the person. [This legitimate word is in common and respectable use in New England, and its signification is so appropriate that no other word will supply its place.]
SLUNG, v. [pret. and pp. of Sling.]
SLUNK, v. [pret. and pp. of Slink.]
SLUR, n.
- Properly, a black mark; hence, slight reproach or disgrace. Every violation of moral duty should be a slur to the reputation.
- In music, a mark connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a stringed instrument.