slender grass (slender gras)

A gra of Lang Aicky, in the Souter Moor, Wi' his sleuth - dog sits in his watch right sure. Fray of Suport (Child's Ballads, VI. 120), sleuth-hound (slöth'hound), n. [Also sluthhound, slot hound; slewth hund, sluthchund ; sleuth2 + hound . ] A bloodhound. Wald vayd a bow-draucht, he suld ger Bath the sleuthhund & the ledar. Barbour , Bruce (E. E. T. S.), vii. 20. Sleuth - hound thou knowest, and gray, and all the hounds. Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. the genus Leptochloa, in which the spikelets slevet, n. A Middle English form of sleevel. are arranged in two rows on one side of a long slew1 (slö). Preterit of slay1. slender rachis, and the spikes in turn are di lew2. A spelling of slue1, slue2, slough!. IMG:content-1282.png:[blocks in formation] slice (slis), v. t.; pret. and pp. sliced, ppr. slicing. [ Of bread, slyce out fayre morsels to put into your pottage. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 76. IMG:content-1283.png:[blocks in formation] Our sharp bow sliced the blue depths. W. H. Ru ell , Diary in India, I. 55. [In the following pa age the word is used interjectionally, with no clear meaning. Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice! that's my humour. Shak., M. W. of W., i. 1. 134.] 4. In golf, to draw the face of the club acro (the ball) from right to left in the act of hitting it, the result being that it will travel with a curve toward the right. W. Park, Jr. slice-bar (slis'bär), n. Same as slice, 3 ( a ). slice-galley (slis'gal i), n. In printing, a galley with a false bottom, in the form of a thin slice of wood, which aids the longing to warm climates; 3 in the southern United States. Of the latter L. mucronata is the common species, a handsome gra with the panicle sometimes 2 feet long, from the form of which it is also called feather -gra . slenderly (slen'der-li), adv. In a slender manner or form. (a) Slimly; slightly. Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair! Hood , Bridge of Sighs. He was a youngish, slenderly made man, with a distinct The Century , XXXI. 60. ly good bearing. IMG:content-1284.png:[blocks in formation] of sluice, a umed to be a plural: see sluice.] A swift tideway; an eddy. slewer (slö'èr), n. See sluer. the galley to the stone. Slice-galley.