slender, sclendre, slendre

Old Dutch slinder slender, thin; properly=trailing, dragging, hence, long drawn out, from slinderen =to drag, to trail.] 1. Small or narrow in circumference or width as compared with the length; thin, slim, not thick. "Hire armes long and solendre." Chaucer: C. Т., 9,576. 2. Not strong, weak, feeble, slight. "The slenderest shews of probability will suffice to make him an infidel."- Scott : Christian Life, pt. ii., IMG:content-1575.png:[blocks in formation] slickenside *sleve-le e, a. [SLEEVELESS.] slew (ew as ô), pret. of v. [SLAY, v.]