slugs nail (slugsnal)

A slug; also, loosely, any snail of the family Helicidæ. slug-worm (slug'wėrm), n. One of the slimy slug-like larvæ of the saw-flies of the genus Selandria and allied genera; specifically, the larva of S. cerasi. W. D. Peck, Nat. Hist. of Slug-worm (Boston, 1799). sluice (slös), n. [Early mod. E. sluce, sluse, scluse; G. schleuse ) Dan. = IMG:content-1336.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To wet or lave abundantly. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey. The great seas came flying over the bows, sluicing the decks with a mimic ocean. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 4. 4. To scour out or cleanse by means of sluices: as, to sluice a harbor.- 5. To let out as by a sluice; cause to gush out. Twas I sluc't out his life bloode. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, II., v. 6.