slip2 (slip)

[ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-1310.png:[blocks in formation] easily slipped on; slip1 , v., + -er1. Cf. slip- shoe.] 1. A loose, light shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, generally for wear- ing indoors. poulaine. Ha' not you seen, Camillo- or heard - A sense of peace and rest Like slippers after shoes. [Local.] -3. Same as slipper - plant . See Pedi- 2. A child's garment; especially, a child's slip. slipper, in conch .: (a) A slipper-shaped pteropod. See lanthus. Hunt the slipper. See hunt. - Venus's- Cymbuliidæ . (b) A gla -nautilus. See Car in aria . slipper3 (slip'èr), n. [ slip- per-drag.-2. One who or that which slips or lets slip; specifically, in coursing , the person who holds the couple of hounds in the leash, and lets both slip at the same instant on a given signal when the hare is started. slipper-animalcule (slip'er-an-i-mal kül), n. A ciliate infusorian of the genus Paramecium : water mark. It is laid with rails to support the cradle. See slip1 , n., 14. slipe (slīp), n. [Cf. slip1 , n.] In coal -mining: (a) A skip without wheels; a sledge. (b) pl. Flat pieces of iron on which the corfs slide. [Prov. Eng.] slipert, a . per1. slipper-bath (slip'er-bath), n. A bath-tub part- ly covered and having the shape of a shoe, the bather's feet resting in what may be called the toe, and the bather sitting more or le tect the bather from currents of air. to prevent the spilling of the water, and partly to pro- slipper-drag (slip'er-drag), n. Same as slip- per3 , 1. Rankine , Steam Engine, § 48. slippered (slip'èrd), a. [ slipper2 + -ed2.] Wearing or covered with slippers: as, slippered feet. slipper-flower (slip'er-flou"ėr), n. 1. The slip- perwort.-2. The slipper-plant. slipperily (slip'er-i-li), adv . In a slippery man- IMG:content-1311.png:[blocks in formation] which grasps a chain cable by one of its links, and may disengaged or slipped by the mo- tion of a trigger, sliding ring, or the like. (b) slipperne t (slip'er-nes), n. [ slipper1 + -ne .] Slipperine ; changeablene ; untrust- worthine . slypperne e of fortune. Taverner's Adag ., Clste ( Nares See Pedilan- slip-kiln (slip'kil), n. A pan or series of pans slipper-plant (slip'er-plant), n. arranged with flues heated from a stove, for IMG:content-1312.png:[blocks in formation] slipper1t (slip'er), a . [ slipper , sliper , slip or , slipur (=MLG. slipper ) , slippery, slīpan , slūpan , slip: see slip1 . Cf. slippery .] 1. Slippery. To lyve in woo he hath grete fantasie, And of his herte also hath sliper holde. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 60. Therefore hold thou thy fortune fast; for she is slipper and cannot bee kept against her will. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, vii. A slipper and subtle knave. Shak., Othello. ii. 1. 246. plant. See Pedilanthus . slipperwort (slip'ér-wėrt), n. genus Calceolaria : so called from the form of the lower lip of the corolla. slippery (slip'er-i), a . [= MHG. slupferic , G. schlüpfrig , slippery; as slipper1 + -y1.] 1. Hav- ing such smoothne of surface as to cause slipping or sliding, or to render grip or hold difficult; not affording firm footing or secure hold. The streetes being slippery , I fell against a piece of tim- ber with such violence that I could not speake nor fetch my breath for some space. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 9, 1676. Hence-2. That cannot be depended on or trusted; uncertain; untrustworthy; apt to play one false; dishonest: as, he is a slippery person to deal with; slippery politicians. and for her honesty. Servants are slippery ; but I dare give my word for her We may as justly suspect, there were some bad and slip- pery men in that councell, as we know there are wone to be in our Convocations. Milton , Prelatical Episcopacy. 3. Liable to slip or lose footing. [Rare.] Being slippery standers, The love that lean'd on them as slippery too, Do one pluck down another, and together Die in the fall. Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 84. IMG:content-1313.png:[blocks in formation] slipshod (slip's hod), a. [ slip1 + shoe + -ed2 .] 1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel or having no counters, so that the sole trails after the foot. Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod . Shak . , Lear, i. 5. 12. The slipshod 'prentice from his master's door Had par'd the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor. 2. To cut lengthwise or into long pieces or strips: as, the gale has slit the sails into ribbons. -3. To cut or make a long fi ure in; slash. And here Clothes ben slytt at the syde; and the i ben festned with Laces of Silk. Mandeville, Travels, p. 247. I'll slit the villain's nose that would have sent me to the gaol. Shak., T. of the S., v. 1. 134. It [a dagger] was... put into a slit in the side of a State Trials, Q. Elizabeth, an. 1584. mattre . He was nursed by an Irish nurse, after the Irish manner, Combe , Dr. Syntax's Tours, iii. 1. ( Davies .) wher they putt the child into a pendulous satchell instead of a cradle, with a slitt for the child's head to peepe out. Aubrey , Lives, Robert Boyle. He told us a great number of comic slip - slops of the first Lord Baltimore, who made a constant misuse of one word for another. Mme . D'Arblay , Diary, iv. 14. There was no taking refuge too then, as with us, On a slip - sloppy day, in a cab or a 'bus. Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 291. 1. A stitch in slipstringt (slip's tring), n. [ slip1 , v., + obj. string.] One who has shaken off restraint; a prodigal: sometimes used attributively. Also called slip thrift . Young rascals or scoundrels, rakehells, or slip strings . Cotgrave. Stop your hammers; what ayles Iowe? We are making arrowes for my slip - string sonne [cupid]. Dekker , Londons Tempe. Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop. Thu most habbe red i mitte Twenti Marc ine thi slitte . slitting-roller (slit'ing-rō"ler), n. One of a pair of coacting rollers having ribs which enter in- tervening spaces on the companion rollers, and cutting in the manner of shears, used in slitting- mills for metals, etc. See cut under rotary . slitting-saw (slit'ing-sa), n. A form of gang- saw for slitting planks, etc., into thin boards or strips. It resembles the resawing-machine, and is variously modified in form according to the work for which it is intended, as making laths, pickets, etc. slitting-shears (slit'ing-shērz), n . sing . and pl . A machine for cutting sheet-metal into strips. See cut under rotary . King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 61. 3. A cleft or crack in the breast of fat cattle. [Prov. Eng.] -4. In coal - mining , a short head- ing connecting two other headings. [Eng.] - 5. Specifically, in zoöl ., an at ., and embryol ., a visceral cleft; one of the series of paired (right and left) openings in the front and sides of the head and neck of every vertebrate embryo, some of which or all may disappear, or some of which may persist as gill-slits or their equiva-rashed trees the slivelt (sliv), v. t. [ slyven , slifan (pret. slaf , pp. slifen ), cleave, in comp. to - slifan ; cf. slit an , slit. Hence freq. sliver .] To cleave; split; divide. IMG:content-1314.png:[blocks in formation] lents; a branchial, pharyngeal, etc., slit. These slits occur between any two visceral arches of each side; slivel (sliv), n. [ IMG:content-1315.png:[blocks in formation] slither (sliTH'er), a. and n. [ sklither , slippery; var. of slidder , a.] I. a . Slip- pery: same as slidder . II. n. A limestone rubble; angular fragments or screes of limestone. (North. Eng.] In general this indestructible rubble lays on so steep an ascent that it slips from beneath the feet of an animal which attempts to cro it whence the name slither , or sliding gravel. J. Farey, Derby shire, I. 145. [ * slitheren , sklyth- slither (sliTH'er), v. i. eren; var. of slidder , v.] To slide: same as slidder . [Prov. Eng.] Down they came slithering to the ground, barking their arms and faces. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 4. He slithers on the soft mud, and cannot stop himself Landor , Imag. Conv., Archdeacon Hare and Walter [Landor. slithering (sliTH'er-ing), p . a . Slow; indolent; procrastinating; deceitful. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] slithery (slitн'er-i), a . Slippery: same as slid- dery. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] G. Mac Donald , Warlock o' Glen warlock, p. 81. slit-shell (slit's hel), n. A shell of the family Pleurotomariidæ , having the outer lip slit. See cut under Pleurotomaria . slitter (slit'er), n. [ metal - manuf ., a series of steel disks, or a pair of grooved rollers, placed one over the other, serving to shear sheet-metal into strips; a slitting-shears. -3. Same as pick1 , 1 ( a ). [Eng.] IMG:content-1316.png:[blocks in formation] Allas! that he al hool, or of him sleyvere , Sholde han his refut in so digne a place. There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself into strips with square ends: noting the edge of a garment, or of a sleeve. This differs from dagged , in that the dags are tapered and rounded, whereas the slits are equal in width, and are separated from each other merely by the cut of the shears. slitting-disk (slit'ing-disk), n. In gem - cutting , same as slitting - mill , 2. slitting-file (slit'ing-fil), n . A file of lozenge or diamond section, with four cutting edges, two acute and two obtuse. slitting-gage (slit'ing-gāj), n. In saddlery , a hand-tool combining a gage and a cutting edge, for cutting leather into strips suitable for har- ne -straps, reins, etc. With a swerd that he wolde slitte his herte. Comes the blind Fury, with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton , Lycidas, 1. 76. machine for cutting narrow strips of leather: a larger form of the slitting-gage.-2. A ma- sliver 5. A very fine edge left at the end of a piece of timber.-6t. pl. The loose breeches or slops of the early part of the seventeenth century.Sliver lap-machine, in cotton - manuf., a machine which receives the slivers or ends from the carding-machine, and pa es them through rollers which form them into a single broad sheet or lap. sliver (sliv'èr or sliver), v. [See sliver, n., slivel, v.] I. trans. 1. To cut or divide into long thin pieces, or into very small pieces; cut or rend lengthwise; splinter; break or tear off. Slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse. Shak ., Macbeth, iv. 1. 27. The floor of the room was warped in every direction, slivered and gaping at the joints. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 3. 2. To cut each side of (a fish) away in one piece from head to tail; take two slivers from. See sliver , n., 4. The operation of slivering is shown. G. B. Goode, Hist. of the Menhaden (1880), p. 147. II. in trans. To split; become split. The planks being cut acro the grain to prevent sliver ing. The Century , XX. 79.