sluke (slok)

slum1 (slum), n. metal., same as [Pacific coast.] Same as sloke , and laver2 , 1. [Cf. slump1 , sloam , slawm .] In slime , 3: chiefly in the plural. The slums , light gravel, etc., pa ing off through the waste flume at every upward motion. Sci. Amer., N. S., LXII. 341. slum2 (slum), n. [Cf. slum1.] A dirty back street of a city, especially such a street inhabited by a squalid and criminal population; a low and dangerous neighborhood: chiefly in the plural: as, the slums of White chapel and Westminster in London. Close under the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed labyrinths of lanes and courts and alleys and slums . Cardinal Wiseman . Gone is the Rookery, a conglomeration of slums and alleys in the heart of St. Giles's. E. H. Yates , Fifty Years of London Life, I. ii. slum2 (slum), v. i.; pret. and pp. slummed , ppr. slumming. [ Leland .-2. To visit the slums of a city, often from mere curiosity or as a diversion. [Recent.] slumber (slum'ber), v. [Early mod. E. also slombre; And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres, I slombred in a slepyng, it sweyued so merye. Piers Plowman (B), Prol., 1. 10. Or, if you do but slumber , I'll appear In the shape of all my wrongs, and, like a Fury, Fright you to madne . IMG:content-1338.jpg:[graphic] Fletcher , Spanish Curate, iv. 1. IMG:content-1339.jpg:[blocks in formation] slumber 2. To sleep; sleep quietly. God has granted you this sight of your country's happine ere you slumber in the grave forever. D. Webster , Speech, June 17, 1825. At my feet the city slumbered. Long fellow, Belfry of Bruges. If Sleep and Death be truly one, And every spirit's folded bloom Thro' all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber on. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xliii. 3. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supinene , or inactivity. Why slumbers Pope, who leads the tuneful train, Nor hears that virtue which he loves complain? Young , Love of Fame, i. 35. Slumbering under a kind of half reformation. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 446. Pent Greek patriotism slumbered for centuries till it blazed out grandly in the Liberation War of 1821-5. J. S. Blackie . =Syn. 1 and 2. Drowse , Doze, etc. See sleep . II. trans. 1. To lay to sleep; cause to slumber or sleep. [Rare.] To honest a deed after it was done, or to slumber his conscience in the doing, he [Felton] studied other incentive. Sir H. Wotton, Life of the Duke of Bucking ham. 21. To stun; stupefy. [Rare.] Now bene they come whereas the Palmer sate, Keeping that slombred corse to him a ind. Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 11. 3. To cause to be latent; keep as if in a sleeping condition. [Rare.] If Christ slumbered the Godhead in himself, the mercy of God may be slumbered , it may be hidden from his ser vants, but it cannot be taken away. Donne, Sermons, ii. slumber (slum'ber), n. [= D. sluimer = MG. slummer, G. schlummer = Sw. Dan. slummer; from the verb.] 1. Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carele ne it shall fall into slumber , and from a slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep. South . To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light! Scott, Marmion, L'Envoy. 2. Sleep, especially sound sleep. Even lust and envy sleep; yet love denies Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden, Indian Emperor, iii. 2. Calm as cradled child in dreamle slumber bound. Shelley, Revolt of Islam, i. 15. 3. A sleeping state; sleep regarded as an act. The mockery of unquiet slumbers. Shak ., Rich. III., iii. 2. 27.