slipperiness, slip pern esse

[English slippery; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being slippery; state of surfaces rendering it easy to slip or slide; smoothne , lubricity. "The smoothne and slipperine of the surfaces."Boyle: Works , iii. 367. *2. Glibne ; readine or liability to slip. "We do not only fall by the slipperine of our tongues, but we deliberately discipline them to mischief."Government of the Tongue . 3. Readine or disposition to use evasions, or the like; lubricity or uncertainty of character. 4. Uncertainty, instability, changeablene . slip-per-wõrt, s. [ Eng.slipper , and wort .] Bot.: The genus Calceolaria. 1. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips. 2 To cut or make a long cut or fi ure in or upon. "And sav'd the slitting of his nose, By timely changing of his clothes."