slent1+ (slent)

[ And when Cleopatra found Antonius' jeasts and slents to be but gro e. North , tr. of Plutarch (1579), 982 B. ( Nares . ) slent2 (slent), v . t . [Perhaps a nasalized form of slit ; or else another use of slent1 .] To rend; cleave. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] If one do well observe the quality of the cliffs on both shores [of England and France), his eyes will judge that they were but one homogeneal piece of earth at first, and that they were slented and shivered asunder by some act of violence, as the impetuous waves of the sea. Howell , Letters, iv. 19. IMG:content-1285.png:[blocks in formation] King A lisa under , 1. 3833. ( Skeat .) 3. Something thin and broad. Specifically-(a) A long-handled instrument used for removing clinkers and A spatula, or broad pliable knife with a rounded end, used the like between furnace-bars. Also called slice - bar. (b) for spreading plasters or for similar purposes. Slyce, instrument, spat a, spatula. Prompt . Parv . , p. 459. The workman with his slice then spreads the charge over the bed, so as to thoroughly expose every portion to the action of the flames, and shuts down the door. Spons' Encyc. Manuf., I. 291. (c) In printing: (1) A small spade-shaped iron tool with which printing-ink is taken out of a tub and conveyed to an ink-trough or fountain. (2) The sliding bottom of a slice-galley. (d) A bar used by whalers to strip fish with. (e) A tapering piece of plank driven between the timbers of a ship before planking. Also called slicer. (f) A wedge driven under the keel of a ship when launching. (g) A bar with a chisel or spear-headed end, used for stripping off the sheathing or planking of ships. (h) A utensil for turn ing over meat in the frying-pan and for similar purposes. The form is like that of a trowel, the blade being three or four inches wide, twice as long, and often pierced with holes. Also called turn -over. Slice ( c ) (1). Then back he came to Nympton Rectory and wedded that same cook-maid, who now was turning our ham so cleverly with the egg- slice . R. D. Black more , Maid of Sker, lxviii. (i) A broad, thin knife, usually of silver, for dividing and We pick out (in the shop-windows] the spoons and forks, serving fish at table. Also called fish -slice. fish-slices, butter-knives, and sugar-tongs we should both prefer if we could both afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them! Dickens, David Copper field, lxi. (j) A bakers' shovel or peel. ceram., a form of pug-mill with an upright axis revolving in a cylinder. Knives are fixed to the walls of the cylinder, and others are carried by the axis and revolve between those of the cylinder. The blades are set spirally, and force the clay, which is masticated during its progre through the machine, to pa out of an aperture at the bottom. slick1 (slik), a., n., v., and adv. See sleek. slick2 (slik), n. [F. schlich, ore in a state of fine subdivision: as sometimes used, nearly synonymous with slimes. The term is rarely employed, except books describing German proce es of smelting, and then as the equivalent of the German schlich, and often in that spelling.