Slip

slip, v.i. to slide or glide along: to move out of place: to escape: to err: to slink: to enter by oversight.— v.t. to cause to slide: to convey secretly: to omit: to throw off: to let loose: to escape from: to part from the branch or stem:— pr.p. slip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. slipped.— n. act of slipping: that on which anything may slip: an error, a fault, a slight transgre ion: an escape: a twig: a strip, a narrow piece of anything: a leash: a smooth inclined plane, sloping down to the water, on which a ship is built: anything easily slipped on: ( print. ) a long galley-proof before being made up into pages.— ns. Slip′-board , a board sliding in grooves; Slip′-dock , a dock having a floor that slopes so that the lower end is submerged; Slip′-knot , a knot which slips along the rope or line round which it is made; Slip′per , a loose shoe easily slipped on.— adj. ( Spens. ) slippery.— adj. Slip′pered , wearing slippers.— adv. Slip′perily , in a slippery manner.— ns. Slip′perine , Slip′pine .— adjs. Slip′pery , Slip′py , apt to slip away: smooth: not affording firm footing or confidence: unstable: uncertain; Slip′shod , shod with slippers, or shoes down at the heel like slippers: carele .— n. Slip′stitch .— Slip off , to take off noisele ly or hastily; Slip on , to put on loosely or in haste; Slip one's breath , or wind, to die; Slip the leash , to disengage one's self from a noose.— Give a person the slip , to escape stealthily from him. [A.S. slípan ; Sw. slippa , Dut. slippen , to glide, Ger. schliefen .]