aslope

or adv. [Eng. a = on, and slope.] With a slope; slopingly, aslant, obliquely. "To set them, not upright, but aslope ."-Bacon: Nat . Hist ., cent. v., § 425. *a-slō'wte, adv. [ASLANT.] *a-slug, adv . [Eng. a.; slug .] After the manner of a alug-ie., in a sluggish manner, sluggishly, lazily. ( Fother by .) gen it, άσματος ( asmatos ) = a song, from ἄδω ( ado ) = to sing; γραφή ( graphē ) = a writing.] A writing about songs; a treatise on songs. a-smear, a. [Eng. a = on, and smear, s.] Smeared over; befouled. (Dickens: Great Expectations , ch. xx.)