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slugger *3. A slow-sailing ve el. "His rendezvous for his fleet and for all slugs to come to."-Pepys: Diary, Oct. 17, 1666. II. Zool .: Any individual of the family Limacide (q. v.). They are naked, air-breathing mollusks, universally distributed, committing great ravages in fields and garden crops in moist weather, but becoming dormant during frosts. The body is generally oval or oblong, elongated, from one to three inches in length, the creeping disk, or sole of the foot, extends the whole length of the animal, but, like snails, slugs frequently raise their heads and move their tentacles in search of objects above them. They often climb trees, and can lower themselves to the ground by the accumulation of mucus at the extremity of the tail hardening into a gelatinous thread. They oviposit in moist places in spring and summer, often at roots of gra ; the eggs resemble small oval clusters of jelly. Limax agrestis, the Gray Slug, is the commonest, and L. maximus (or anti quorum ), the Great Gray Slug, among the largest species. Arion ater , the Black Slug, or Black Snail, and A. agrestis , the Red Slug, are also plentiful. Various means are employed by gardeners to check the ravages of these animals. One of the most efficacious is the sprinkling of coal ashes, lime, or soot round young and tender plants. [SEA-SLUG.] slug (2), s. [Etym. doubtful.] 1. Print .: A strip of metal le than type high, and as long as the width of the column or page. Slugs are used to fill out a short page or between display lines. 2. Firearms : An extemporized leaden projectile formed by cutting bar or sheet lead into irregular ma es. Used in case of nece ity as a substitute for balls or shot. "Some of the men were employed in cutting lead from the roof of the Marque 's house and shaping it into slugs ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiii. 3. Metall . ( pl . ): Partially roasted ore. 4. Hat - making : A hatter's heating-iron. slug-shaped caterpillars, s . pl . Entom.: Newman's name for caterpillars shaped like a slug. They are sometimes downy or covered with short pile, are destitute of spines, and have two tail-like projections directed backward. Examples, the caterpillars of Apatura iris, Hip parchia janira , and Arge gala the a (all butterflies). *slug (1), *slogge, *slugge, v . i . & t . [Dan. slug ; Norw.sloka to go heavily, to slouch (q. v.).] A. In trans.: To play the sluggard; to be lazy or sluggish. "He lay not all night slugging in a cabin under his mantle." Spenser : State of Ireland. B. Transitive: 1. To make sluggish. "And it is still episcopacy that before all our eyes worsens and slugs the most learned, and seeming religious of our ministers." -Milton : Reformation in Eng land , bk. i. 2. To retard, to hinder. slug (2), v. t. & i. [SLUG (2), s.] A. Transitive : 1. To load with a slug or slugs, as a gun. 2. To strike heavily. ( Stang.) B. In trans.: In breech-loading arms, which carry a bullet slightly larger than the bore of the barrel, the bullet, when forced to a ume the sectional shape of the bore in the act of firing, is said to slug or be slugged. *slug-a-běd, s. [Eng. slug (1), v., and bed .] One who indulges in lying in bed; a sluggard. "Fie, you slugabed !" Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet , iv. 5. slug-gard, s. & a . [Eng. slug (1), s.; -ard .] A. As subst.: A person habitually lazy and indolent. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways and be wise."- Proverbs vi. 6. *B. As adj .: Sluggish, lazy. "For sprightly May commands our youth to keep The vigils of her night, and breaks their sluggard sleep." Dryden : Palamon and Arcite , i. 177. *slug-gard-ize, v . t . [Eng.sluggard; -ize.] To IMG:content-1609.png:[blocks in formation] "Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapele idlene ." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, i. 7. slug-gard-, *slog-ard-ie, s. [Eng. sluggard ; -y.] The state of a sluggard; sluggishne . "Arise, for shame, do way your sluggardy ." Wyatt: The Lover Unhappy . slug-ger, s . [English slug : -er.] One who 2. A hindrance, an obstruction. "Money would be stirring, if it were not for this strikes heavy blows; hence a boxer, a prize-fighter. slugge."-Bacon: E ays; Of Usury. ( Slang .) IMG:content-1610.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1611.png:[blocks in formation] slum-běr-er, s. who slumbers; a sleeper. Donne: Progre of the Soul. slum-ber-Ing, *slom-bring, pr . par ., a. & &. [SLUMBER.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: A state of slumber, sleep or repose. "And ever lay In a slumbering manner. slăm-ber-Ing-ly, adv . [Eng. slumbering ; -ly.] *slum-ber-lănd, subst . [Eng. slumber, s., and land.] Sleep; dreamland. A. C. Swinburne: Tristram of Lyone e, vi. slum-ber-le , adject . [Eng. slumber ; -le .] Sleeple . slum-běr-oŭs, *slum-broŭs, a . [Eng. slum- ber ; -ous .] 1. Inviting to sleep; causing or inducing sleep; sleepy, soporiferous. "Flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed." 2. Inclined to sleep; sleepy, drowsy. *slum-běr-, *slom-bry, *slum-bry, a . [Eng. slumber ; -y.] 1. Inviting to sleep; causing sleep; slumberous. 2. Sleeping; taking place in sleep. *4. To emit by or as by a sluice; to let gush out. "And consequently, like a traitor coward, Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood." Shakesp.: Richard II ., i. 1. IMG:content-1612.png:[blocks in formation] 4. To pa lightly over; to pa with little notice. "Studious to please the genius of the times, With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes." Dryden. (Todd.) 5. To pronounce in an indistinct manner. *6. To cheat, originally by slipping or sliding a die in a particular manner; hence, to trick, to cheat generally. "What was the public faith found out for, But to slur men of what they fought for?" Butler: Hudibras , pt. ii., c. 2. II. Technically : IMG:content-1613.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Print.: A blurred impre ion. slur-cock, 8. slushed 2. To cover with a mixture of white lead and lime, as the bright parts of machinery, to prevent their rusting. 3. To grease or coat with slush, as a mast. slŭshed, pa. par. or a. [SLUSH, v.]