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[ They circumcise themselves, and mark their faces with sundry slashes from their infancie. IMG:content-1257.png:[blocks in formation] Dickens, Hard Times. Cheir of an smith , True Travels, I. 50. slash-pine (slash'pin), n. Atree, Pinus Cubensis , 2. A random, sweeping cut at something with an edged instrument, as a sword or an ax, or with a whip or switch. He may have a cut i' the leg by this time; for Don Martine and he were at whole slashes . Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, iv. 2. Andrew Fair service. had only taken this recumbent posture to avoid the slashes , stabs, and pistol-balls which for a moment or two were flying in various directions. Scott , Rob Roy, xxxix. 3. A slit cut in the stuff from which a garment is made, intended to show a different and usually bright-colored material underneath. This manner of decorating garments was especially in use in the sixteenth and the early part of the seventeenth century. Compare panel, and see cut under puffed. Her gown was a green Turkey grogram, cut all into panes or slashes , from the shoulder and sleeves unto the foot, and tied up at the distance of about a hand's-breadth everywhere with the same ribbon with which her hair was bound. Lord Herbert of Cherbury , Life (ed. Howells), p. 112. Hence-4. A piece of tape or worsted lace placed on the sleeves of non-commi ioned officers to distinguish them from privates; a stripe.-5. A clearing in a wood; any gap or opening in a wood, whether caused by the operations of woodmen or by wind or fire. Compare slashing, 2. All persons having occasion to burn a fallow or start a fire in any old chopping, wind- slash , bush or berry lot, swamp "viaie" or beaver meadow, shall give five days' notice. New York Times , April 13, 1886. 6. pl. Same as slashing, 3.-7. A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes: often in the plural. Although the inner lands want these benefits [of game] (which, however, no pond or slash is without), yet even they have the advantage of wild-turkeys, . Beverley, Virginia, ii. 27. Henry Clay, the great Commoner, as his friends loved to call him, was spoken of during election-time as the Miller Boy of the Slashes. S. De Vere , American isms, p. 250. 8. A ma of coal which has been crushed and shattered by a movement of the earth's crust. [Wales.] Thus, the latter [the coal], which is there nearly all in the state of culm or anthracite, has been for the most part shivered into small fragments, and is frequently accumulated in little troughs or hollows, the slashes of the Murchison , Siluria (4th ed.), p. 290. miners.