slouchiness (slouchines)

The character or appearance of being slouchy; a slouchy attitude or posture. slouching (slouching), p. a. 1. Hanging down; drooping. He had a long, strong, uncouth body; rather rough hewn slouching features. Westminster Rev., CXXV. 85. 2. Awkward, heavy, and dragging, as in carriage or gait. The awkward, negligent, clumsy, and slouching manner of a booby. The shepherd with a slow and slouching walk, timed by the walk of grazing beasts, moved aside, as if unwillingly. George Eliot , Felix Holt, Int. rates from the surrounding living ti ue, and is cast off in the act of sloughing. The basest of mankind, From scalp to sole one slough and crust of sin. Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites. 3. A husk. [Prov. Eng.] The skin or slough of fruit. Liddell and Scott's Greek- English Lexicon (under δέρμα). slough2 (sluf), v. [ A limited traumatic gangrene is to be treated as an ordinary sloughing wound. Quain, Med. Dict., p. 529. 2. To cast off a slough. This Gardiner turn'd his coat in Henry's time: The serpent that hath slough'd will slough again. Tennyson, Queen Mary, iii. 3. Sloughing phagedena. Same as hospital gangrene (which see, under gangrene ) . B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 152. Chesterfield. slough3t, a. A Middle English variant of slowl . sloughing (sluf'ing), n . [Verbal n. of slough , v.] 1. The act or proce of casting or shed- ding the skin, shell, hair, feathers, and the like; a molt; ecdysis.-2. The act or proce of sep- a ration of dead from living ti ue. sloughyl (slou'i), a. [ slough1 + -y1.] Full of sloughs; miry. Low ground, slouchy (slou'chi), a. [ crew. They looked slouchy , listle , torpid an ill-conditioned O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 58. Looking like a slouchy country bumpkin. The Century, XXV. 176. and sloughy underneath. nature of or resembling a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living ti ue. sloutht, n. An obsolete spelling of sloth1. Slovak (slō-vak'), a. and n. [= G. Slowak; II. n. 1. A member of a Slavic race dwelling chiefly in northern Hungary and the adjoining part of Moravia.-2. The language of this race: a dialect of Czechish.