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& s. [Slavonian slovak; Eug. suff. -ian.] A. As adj.: Of or belonging to the Slovaks or their language. B. As subst.: The language of the Slovaks. It is still spoken in parts of Moravia and Bohemia. slō-van, s. (Etym. doubtful.] Mining: A gallery in a mine; a day level. (Specially applied to damp places.) slov-en, *slov-yn, subst . [O. Dut. slof , sloef =a carele person, a sloven; sloeven to play the sloven; Dutch slof =carele ; Low Ger. sluf =slov enly; sluffen , sluffern =to be carele ; sluffen =to go about in slippers.] A slovenly person; one who is carele of his dre or negligent of cleanline ; a person habitually untidy or negligent of cleanline or order; a slow, lazy fellow. "The medium between a fop and a sloven is what IMG:content-1606.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Having the habits or manners of a sloven; negligent of dre or neatne ; untidy. "Æsop at last found out a slovenly lazy fellow, lolling at his ease as if he had nothing to do."-L'Estrange: Fables. 2. Characterized by slovenline or untidine ; wanting in neatne or tidine ; carele , loose; as, slovenly dre . B. As adv.: In a slovenly manner; like a sloven; carele ly, negligently, untidily. "How slightly it hath been handled; and how hastily and slovenly hurried over."- War burton : Julian. (Concl.) *slov'-en-ne , s. [Eng. sloven; -ne .] Sloven line . *slov'-en-ry, s. [Eng. sloven ; -ry.] Slovenline , untidine , want of neatne . "And time hath worn us into slovenry." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 3. slow, *slaw, *slough, *slowe, a ., adv ., & subst. [A. S. sláw ; cogn. with Dut. slee ; Icel. sljór ; Dan. slöv blunt, dull; Sw. slö =blunt, dull, dead, weak: O. H. Ger. sléo =blunt, dull, lukewarm; M. H. Ger. slé .] A. As adjective : 1. Moving a short distance in a long time: not swift, not rapid; not quick in motion; as, a slow stream, a slow pace. 2. Not thrown with a rapid motion; as, slow bowling in cricket. 3. Throwing or bowling a ball in cricket with a gentle, easy motion; not bowling fast; as, a slow bowler. 4. Not happening in a short time; gradual: spread over a long period of time; not rapid in growth or progre . 'These changes in the heav'ns, though slow , produc'd Like change on sea and land." Milton: P. L., x. 692. 5. Not ready, not quick or prompt. "I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."- Exodus iv. 10. 6. Inactive, tardy, sluggish, dilatory, backward. "Fix'd on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe." Dryden. (Todd.) 7. Not hasty, not precipitate; acting with deliberation. ( Proverbs xix. 29.) 8. Behind in time; not keeping true time; as, a clock or watch is slow . 9. Behind the times; exciting contempt on account of dullne , or want of spirit; not lively; stupid, dull. 10. Dull, spiritle , lifele . "The party was what you young fellows call slow ."Thackeray: New comes , ch. xlix. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-1607.png:[blocks in formation] Cricket: A ball bowled or delivered slowly; as, to bowl slows .