sloch (sloch)

A Scotch form of slough2. slock1 (slok), v. [ That none of the said crafte slocke ony man-is prentise or yerely seruaunt of the said crafte, or socoure or maynteyne ony suche, any aprentise, or yerely seruaunt, goyng or brekynge away fro his Maister res cove naunt, vppon payne of xl. d. slocken (slok'n), v . [Also (Sc.) sloken ; sloknen , slokna Sw. slockna , be quenched, go out; as slock1 + -en1.] Same as slock1 for slack1 . [Obsolete or provincial.] English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 336. = That bottell swet, which served at the first To keep the life, but not to slocken thirst. [Sylvester], Du Bartas, p. 366. ( Hall i well .) I would set that castell in a low, And sloken it with English blood! sloke Oysters and small wrinckles in each creeke, Whereon I feed, and on the meager slone . W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 1. 2. The blackthorn, Prunus spinosa , a shrub of hedgerows, thickets, etc., found in Europe and Ru ian and central Asia. It is of a rigid much branching spiny habit, puts forth profuse pure white blo oms before the leaves, and produces a drupe also called a stoe. (See def. 1.) The wood is hard and takes a fine polish, and is used for walkingsticks, tool-hanwild fruit is aus etc. The tere and of little value; but it is thought to be the original of the 2 1 common culti1, flowering branch of Sloe (Prunus spin ovated plum, P. sa ); 2, branch with fruit; a, a flower, long i. domestic a. (See tudinal section. plum1, 2.) The sloe, or black sloe, of the southern United States is P. umbellata, a small tree with a pleasant red or black fruit, which is used as a preserve.