List of Old English Words in the OED/SL

Old English	n	English
Slack	n	Part of a rope which hangs loose. 2. seasonal time or period when trade is not brisk. 3. a quiet time. 4. synonyms: easy, backward, slow, +++
Slack	adj	Not taunt;; closely drawn together; not holding fast. 2. remiss about one's duties; easy-going.
Slack	phr	"Slacken Off" - to lessen one's energies; to ease off; to mitigate; reduce the stre,ngth of. 2. to be less demanding or intense or ease off. 3. to procrastinate, to be lazy.
Slack-baked	adj	Not thoroughly cooked; underdone.
Slacken	vb	To make or become slack. 2. to loosen, moderate, relax, lessen, diminish, abate, slake. 3. to become slack; to lose cohesion, to abate, relax, languish, flag. 4. dodge work, shirk or avoid duty or responsibility.
Slackening	n	The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.
Slacker	n	Oe who shirks work; a lazy person; an indifferent worker.
Slackerdom	n	The world or lifestyle of slackers; laziness.
Slackerish	adj	Somewhat easy-going way and relaxed.
Slackerishly	adv	In a somehat easy-going, relaxed manner.
Slack-handed	adj	Careless or remiss in working.
Slack-handedness	n	The state or quality of being slack-handed.
Slack-in-Stays	adj	Slow in going about, as a ship.
Slackline	n	(Forestry, mining, sports) A length of cable, rope, or webbing that hangs loosely from its points of suspension.
Slacklining	n	A sport resembling tightrope walking but with the rope or webbing only partially taut.
Slackly	adv	In a slack manner.
Slackness	n	The state of being slack; the quality of having slack.
Slacks	n	Loose pants worn at work or play by men or women.
Slack water	n	A tide near the turn of a tide, especially at low tide. 2. a condition where there is no horizontal flow of water at a place. 2. ebb-tide, turn of the tide.
Slade	n	A valley, little dell or dingle. 2. an open space between banks or woods; a peat spade; a forest slade. 3. a strip of greensward or boggy land. 4. a sloping pathway. 5. a long, flat plate on a plow for overcoming inequalities in the ground.
Slake	vb	To be slack, less active or intense, abate. 2. to diminish the intensity of one's efforts. 2. to do something or undertake something with less energy. 3. to manifest a weakening or decrease in some specified respect. 4. to fall away in one's endeavors; become less decisive. 5. to depart, go away, leave. 6. to become relaxed, slack or loose. 7. to decrease in intensity or force. 8. to become less violent, oppressive or part of, to abate, moderate, mitigate, assuage. 9. to burn less strongly, die down or away, go out. 10. to become weaker or fainter; to lessen, fall off. 11. to come to an end, cease, become extinct. 12. to grow less in number, quantity, voice. 13. to quench a thirst, allay a fear, assuage emotional pain or extinguish a flame or fire. 14. to cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water.
Slaked lime	n	Hydrate of lime, formed by mixing quick lime and water,
Slakeless	adj	That which cannot be or is incapable of being slaked, quenched, mitigated, satiated, assuaged, extinguished.
Slaker	n	One who mitigates, assuages, abates.
Slatch	n	The slack of a rope. 2. a short period or interval of fine weather. 3. a short breeze.
Slay	vb	To kill intentionally or with premeditation. 2. to kill with violence; put to death with a weapon. 3. kill, put an end to, destroy, murder, slaughter, butcher. 4. to smite, strike, hit.
Slaying	n	The act of killing intentionally, murderer, butcher, slaughter, destroy.
Slayer	n	Someone who causes the death of a person or animal. 2. one who slays, killer, murderer, butcher, destroyer of life, bloodshedder, bloodspiller.
Slaying	n	The act of killing intentionally, murderer, butcher, slaughter, destroy.
Sleat	vb	To bait an animal with dogs. 2.to hunt after something. 3. to incite, set the dogs on.
Sleating	n	Hunting, baiting, instigation, persecute. (lit and fig)
Sleave	n	Something tangled, matted, knotted or unspun, as sleave silk, floss or thread.
Sleaved	vb	Separated, as a mass of threads, disentangled. 2. divided, split, rend, torn apart; disentangled.
Sleck	vb	To extinguish or quench (a fire). 2. assuage, moderate. 3. to cool by means of water. 4. to slake or slack.
Sledge	n	A large, heavy hammer wielded with one or both hands, for blacksmith's use, or for breaking stone etc.; a sledgehammer.
Sledge	vb	To hammer, strike, break with a sledge. 2. to strike or smite with great, sometimes unnecessarily severe, force or might.
Sledgehammer	n	A large, heavy hammer wielded with one or both hands, for blacksmith's use, or for breaking stone etc.; a sledge or sledgehammer.
Sledgehammer	phr	"Crack a Nut with a Sledgehammer" - to take quite disproportionate steps to settle what is really a very small matter. 2. break a butterfly on a wheel
Sleek	adj	A later variant of slick. (of hair, fur, or skin or of an animal or person with such hair) smooth and glossly. 2. looking well-fed and comfortable. 3. ingratiating. 4. (of a thing) smooth and polished.
Sleek	vb	Make sleek especially by stroking or pressing down.
Sleeken	vb	To make or become sleek.
Sleekly	adv	In a sleeky way or manner.
Sleekness	n	The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness.
Sleekstone	n	A whetstone used for smoothing.
Sleeky	adj	Of a smooth or glossy appearance.
Sleep	n	A state or period of complete or partial unconsciousness, normal and periodic in humans and higher animals. 2. prolonged period of sleep or hibernation. 3. slumber, nap, doze, kip, inactivity, torpor or rest. 4. death; the rest of the grave. 5. a power-conserving mode in an electronic device, esp. a computer, which allows functions to be restored quickly by avoiding full shutdown.
Sleep	vb	To fall asleep. 2. to become numb, often with a tingling sensation (pins and needles). 3. to be quite, inactive, dormant. 4. to be lacking vigilant, to live thoughtlessly, to be careless or inattentive. 5. to rest or repose; to be dead. 6. to be unused or unagitated. 7. to provide with sleeping quarters.
Sleep	phr	"Get to Sleep" - manage to fall asleep.
Sleep	phr	"Go to Sleep" - go into a state of sleep. 2. become inactive.
Sleep	phr	"In One's Sleep" - while asleep.
Sleep	phr	"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" - avoid stirring up trouble. 2. refrain from raising an issue which is not obviously requiring attention. 3. leave well alone; don't interfere.
Sleep	phr	"Not Sleep a Wink" - not sleep at all; stay awake despite wanting to fall asleep.
Sleep	phr	"One's Last Sleep" - death.
Sleep	phr	"Put to Sleep" - anesthetize. 2. (euphemism) kill (an animal) painlessly.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep At Noon" - a plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Away" - to eliminate, get rid by sleeping it off.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Drunk" - slowed or weakened by recent sleep; drowsy; groggy.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep In" - remain asleep later than usual in the morning; oversleep. 2. sleep by night at one's place of work; live in.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Like a Dog" - sleep soundly and heavily and/or comfortably.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Like a Top" - sleep soundly and heavily and/or comfortably.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Off" - to cure, rid or mitigate the after effects of over-indulgence, indigestion, especially a hangover by sleeping it off.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep On It" - (idiomatic) to postpone (a decision) at least overnight, to avoid making a hasty choice.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep On One's Rights" - fail to exercise some entitlement within a reasonable period.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Out" - sleep by night outdoors or not at one's place of work.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Over" - to postpone one's decision to the morning.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Rough" - to sleep, or bedded down, in the open air (such as on the streets, or in doorways, parks or bus shelters); people in buildings or other places not designed for habitation (such as barns, sheds, car parks, cars, derelict boats.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Together" - (idiomatic, euphemistic) to have sex with. 2. (idiomatic) to be intimate with another person in the same bed. 3. sleep with, have it off, lie with; copulate, make love, commit adultery.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep Under the Same Bridge" - (idiomatic) a critique of a law where circumstances are ignored. 2. to be formally, but not actually, equal under the law. Origin: An allusion to “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under the bridge, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Sleep	phr	"Sleep with One's Eyes Open" - basically, being very cautious, careful or attentive.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep With One's Fathers" - to be dead, passed away.
Sleep	phr	"Sleep with the Fishes" - be buried at sea.
Sleep	phr	"Spend a Sleepless Night" - to worry about something.
Sleep-bringing	adj	A sedative, soporific, slumbrous, lethargic.
Sleep-dust	n	Rheum crusted around the eyes from sleep. 2. sleepy-dust, sleepy-sand, sleepy-seeds.
Sleeper	n	One who sleeps; figuratively, a dead person. 2. a railroad sleeping car. 3. a hibernating animal. 4. a heavy beam resting on or in the ground, as a support for a roadway or rails, etc .; like a support of iron or stone; also a timber on or near the ground for the lower joists of a building. 5. a play, motion picture, recording or book which achieves unexpected and striking success.
Sleeper's nest	n	A group, such as plotters, terrorists, fifth-columnists, partisans ("Sleepers") awaiting a pre-arranged signal to launch a military attack.
Sleepfilled	adj	Weary, ready to fall asleep, yawny.
Sleepful	adj	Strongly inclined to sleep.
Sleepfulness	n	The quality of being sleepful.
Sleepily	adv	In a drowsy manner.
Sleepiness	n	The property of being sleepy.
Sleeping	n	The state of resting in sleep. 2. state of not being raised or discussed.
Sleeping	vb	Resting or reposing in sleep; inducing sleep; adapted for sleeping.
Sleeping sickness	n	A disease caused by the bite of the tsetse-fly, resulting in extreme lethargy, recurrent fever, headaches and terminating in somnolence and death. 2. condition suffered by one who is frequently late for work and appointments.
Sleepingly	adv	Sleepily; while falling asleep.
Sleepish	adj	Sleepy, drowsy.
Sleep-learning	n	Learning by hearing during sleep, using electrical and electronic devices to teach, for example, a foreign language to someone who is asleep.
Sleepless	adj	Characterized by being unable to sleep; wakeful, restless, unquiet. 2. continually active or moving; alert or vigilant; unremitting.
Sleeplessly	adv	In a sleepless manner.
Sleeplessness	n	The property of being sleepless; lack of sleep.
Sleeplike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of sleep
Sleep-loving	n	Fond of sleep.
Sleepness	n	the state, condition or instance of sleeping; sleepfulness.
Sleep-out	n	An outbuilding providing sleeping accommodation.
Sleep-over	n	An occasion of spending the night away from home
Sleepover	adj	involving or relating to spending the night way from home.
Sleep-sack	n	Kind of wearable blanket for a baby.
Sleep shirt	n	Sleepwear resembling a long shirt.
Sleep-spindle	n	A burst of oscillatory brain activity during stage two sleep.
Sleep-start	n	A hypnic jerk or involuntary twitch which occurs just as a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing monetary wakefulness
Sleep-talk	n	To talk unconsciously in one's sleep.
Sleep-talking	n	Unconscious talking in one's sleep.
Sleep-talker	n	A person who talks unconsciously in one's sleep.
Sleep-waker	n	One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
Sleep waking	n	A state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
Sleep-walk	n	Walk or perform other actions while asleep.
Sleepwalker	n	Somnambulist: a person who walks during sleep.
Sleep-walking	n	The action of walking by a person who is asleep; somnambulate, night-wandering, night-walking.
Sleepward	adv	Towards sleep.
Sleepwear	n	Garments designed to be worn in bed; night clothes.
Sleepwise	adv	In terms of sleep.
Sleepwort	n	The lettuce, Lactuca sativa, from its mild narcotic properties.
Sleepy	adj	Inclined to sleep; drowsy, sluggish, dull, heavy, indolent. 2. conducive to sleep; strongly inclined, or about ready to fall sleep. 3. habitually indolent or unobservant. 4. said of pears and other fruits when they are beginning to rot.
Sleepy-head	n	A sleepy or inattentive person.
Sleepy-headed	adj	Very tired, about to fall asleep.
Sleepy hollow	n	Any village far removed from the activities of the outside world. (from Washington Irving's story the Legend of Sleepy Hollow).
Sleepy-time	n	An expression addressed to very young children telling them that it is time for them to go to bed.
Sleepy wood	n	A term applied to wood over-dried through imperfect kiln-seasoning.
Sleet	n	? Probably from OE
Sleeve	n	The part of a garment that covers the arm. 2. a (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. 3. a protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD. 4. a tattoo covering the whole arm. 5. a narrow channel of water. 6. (US) a long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers. 7. (electrical) a double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. 8. a long-nut with right-and-left hand threads to adjust the tension in metal rod connection.
Sleeve	phr	"Hang Up One's Sleeve" - to listen devoutly to what one says. 2. to surrender freedom of thought and action to the judgement of others.
Sleeve	phr	"In One's Shirt Sleeves" - work in an office without a coat.
Sleeve	phr	"Keep Up One's Sleeve" - concealed but ready for use in the future; in reserve, as a conjurer.
Sleeve	phr	"Laugh Up One's Sleeve" - to be inwardly amused at someone. 2. laugh surreptitiously (at someone).
Sleeve	phr	"Wear One's Heart On One's Sleeve" - to lack the reserve expected of one. 2. display one's feelings openly. 3. to expose one's feelings to the eyes of the world. It's likely that this phrase comes from medieval jousts, where a 'sleeve' referred to a piece of armor which covered and protected the arm. Knights would often wear a lady's token around their sleeve of armor.
Sleeve-board	n	A small ironing board for pressing sleeves.
Sleeved	adj	Fitted with sleeves.
Sleeve-fish	n	The calmary, squid or cuttlefish.
Sleeve-hand	adj	The part of a sleeve nearest to the hand; a cuff or wristband.
Sleeve-holder	n	A band made of fabric, elastic or coiled wire worn on the upper arm to hold the shirtsleeve up and prevent the cuff from protruding too far out of the jacket sleeve.
Sleeveless	adj	Having no sleeves. 2. unprofitable, fruitless, futile, as a sleeveless undertaking.
Sleeve-like	adj	Resembling a sleeve or some aspect of one.
Sleeve-nut	n	A long nut with a right hand and left-hand screw thread for drawing together pipes or shafts conversely threaded
Sleeving	n	Tubular covering for electric cable etc.
Sleight	n	Slaughter
Slench	vb	To slink, sneak.
Sletch	vb	To render slack or relaxed. 2. to assuage, mitigate. 3. to abode, slacken.
Sleuth	adj	Sloth, slothful, laziness, slowness, slow-moving, slow,
Sleuth	vb	To be slothful, to waste in sloth.
Sley	n	(O.E. slege) the reed guiding the waro threads of a loom. 2. in knitting machines a groove, lot or bar for directing the action of a part.
Sley	vb	To separate and arrange the threads of (yarn) in a reed for weaving.
Slick	n	A smooth place on the surface of water, as from oil or the presence of fish. 2. a sleek place in the hair of an animal. 2.a woodcarvers chisel with a wide carving edge for paring the sides of mortises and tenons.
Slick	vb	To make smooth, trim, glossly or oily. 2. to trim up, make presentable, slick up.
Slick	adj	????- sleek.. smooth, sleek; slippery. 2. flattering, smoothed-tongued; obsequious, quick in reply, plausible. 3. ready-witted; smart; deft, clever; dexterously done, smooth-running. 5. tricky, specious, . 4. of an animal healthy and plump. 5.smooth; oily, as the surface of water. 5. glazed, as paper; as magazines printed on glazed paper. 6. agreeable, excellent, as a slick time.
Slick	adv	Deftly; cleverly, simultaneously; at once; head on; smoothly, easily performed
Slick	vb	To sleek; make glossy.
Slick	phr	"Slick Down" - flatten down one's hair close to the head with oil.
Slickensided	adj	Polished and striated surface on rocks, caused by friction under pressure.???
Slickness	n	The property of being slick.
Slide	n	The act of sliding. 2 small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be put for closer study. 3. a rapid movement or sliding up or down or the falling or slipping of a large mass of earth, rock, ice or snow; an avalanche. 4. a children's plaything, involving a metal sloping channel.. 4. an inclined plane or channel on which persons, goods etc., slide down to a lower level. 5. a sliding part of a mechanism. 6. a groove, rail etc., on which something slides. 7. in music a series of short notes leading smoothly to a principal note.
Slide	vb	To slip smoothly, easily along; to pass along or cause to slide over a surface with a smooth slipping movement. 2. to slide along ice. 3. to move or pass imperceptibly, smoothly, swiftly, or easily; to pass gradually or imperceptibly. 4. to make a moral slip, err, sin. 5. to lose one's equilibrium or foothold. 6. to move, put, enter, slide in or into etc., with quietness, deftness, dexterity
Slide	phr	"Let Things Slide" - be negligent, neglect to do something, allow deterioration.
Slide	phr	"Slide off" - to slip of fall off. 2. to leave a place, a meeting , etc., without being noticed; slip of, slip away. 3.
Slide	phr	"Slide Out" - a section of a recreational vehicle that can be extended from the main body of a vehicle when parked to form aseparate room.
Slide back	n	A sliding door.
Slide-board	n	A playground's slide.
Slide fastener	n	A zip fastener or zipper.
Slide-knot	n	A slip-knot, particularly one made of two half-hitches on a fishing line.
Slider	n	Part of an instrument which slides. 2. one who or that which slides.
Slide rest	n	An adjustable tool-holder on a turning lathe capable of longitudinal and cross transverse.
Slide-show	n	A presentation of a series of photographic slides, usually with a spoken or recorded explanation.
Slide-whistle	n	A wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it, the pitch being varied with a slide used as a sound effect to accompany pratfalls in slapstick.
Slideware	n	Presentation software.
Slideway	n	A slide.
Slidey	n	One adverse to work and eager to leave early. 2. tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery; slidy.
Slidewire	n	a bare wire of uniform resistance per unit of length, used for electrical measurement.
Sliding	n	A motion of something that slides .
Sliding	adj	designed to be able to slide to slide.
Sliding door	n	A door that opens and closes by sliding to the side, sometimes one of the pair.
Slidingly	adv	With a sliding motion.
Slidingness	n	The quality of being able to slide.
Sliding roof	n	Part of a roof (in a theatre, motor car etc) made able to slide and so form an opening in sultry weather.
Sliding seat	n	A seat able to slide to and fro on runners etc., especially in a racing or rowing) boat to adjust the length of a stroke of the rowers.
Sliding shutters	n	Those that slide either horizontally or vertically.
Sliding ways	n	The stout or heavy timbers forming part of a ship's launching ways which rest on greased standing-ways and move with the ship when launched.
Slidy	adj	Slippery; tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery; slidey.
Slifter	n	(O.E. slifan, to cleave) crevasse or crack.
Slike	n	Mud, slime, sludge.
Slime	n	Soft, thin, sticky, runny, slimy, mud or filth. 2. any moist viscous fluid, esp. noxious or unpleasant. 3. mucous substance or exudation produced by various organisms, suc as slugs, snails, fish etc. 4. any soft, sticky or dirty thing; hence, any offensive quality or thing. 5. soft, moist, adhesive mud or earth, muck.
Slime	vb	To cover or be covered with slime or similar sticky, viscous substance or exudation. 2. to smear with slime; stain with slime.
Slime-bucket	n	A slang term of a abuse.
Slime-eel	n	The hagfish (Myxinidae) an eel-like fish, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather.
Slime-head	n	Any of the long-lived, deep sea fish forming the family Trachichthyidae.
Slime-hole	n	A lousy, disreputable or disgusting place. 2. derogatory term (of abuse).
Slimeless	adj	Free of slime.
Slimelike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of slime.
Slime-mold	n	A spore bearing micro-organism secreting slime; especially, belonging to the class, myxomycetes.
Slime-pit	n	A cesspool, insalubrious surroundings or city sector. 2. a collection of people of low socioeconomic status, living in slimy, unwholesome town or city.
Slimily	adv	In a slimely way. 2. of a creepy or perverse manner.
Sliminess	n	The property of being slimy
Slimy	adj	Of the consistency of slime; covered, smeared with, or full of slime. 2. colloquial disgusting dishonest, meek or flattering. 3. slippery, hard to hold.
Slink	vb	Of persons or animals: to creep or crawl (reptiles). 2. to go move in a stealthy way. 3. walk in a quiet way or sneaky manner. 4. to slink away or reduce by miscarriage. 5. to skulk or hide oneself away. 6. to avoid, shirk, evade, withdraw. 7.to turn the eyes in a furtive way.
Slink	n	A person who moves about stealthy, slyly or secretly. 2. a sneaking, shirking cowardly fellow. 3. a shulk, a sneak. 4. a manner of moving or walking in a slinking, sneaking, stealthily pace or tread. 5. a submissive. 6. a downcast or furtive look or glance. 7. an animal that brings forth it's young abortively or prematurely. 8. an abortive animal or human. 9. an illegitimate child, bastard, love-child. 10. a reptile or creepy-crawly; a lizard.
Slink	phr	"Slink Away" - leave in a guilty, quiet, surreptitious way.
Slinkend	n	Creepy-crawly, bugs in general; reptiles, slinks, slithers
Slinker	n	One who or that which slinks about.
Slinkily	adv	In a slinking manner.
Slinkiness	n	Slyness, stealth-fullness, furtiveness, sneaking of manner or bearing
Slinking	n	That which slinks, moves, walks etc. in a furtive or slinky manner or whose actions are marked by stealth or secrecy.
Slinkingly	adv	In a slinking manner.
Slink-meat	n	Diseased meat sold by disreputable butchers.
Slink skin	n	The skin of an animal born prematurely or leather made of it.
Slink-weed	n	Rose-bay, willow-herb, cardinal flower. (Some believe that it causes cows and other field animals to miscarry)
Slinky	adj	Of a woman, sinuous, slender, gliding; also often of her garments or clothing. 2. of garments, tight or close-fitting. 3. of persons and animals, stealthy, furtive, dexterous (with varying degrees of approval.
Slip	n	A soft, semi-liquid mass, mud, slime, dung. 2. potter's clay. 3. curdled milk.
Slipper	adj	OE.(slipor) deceitful, unreliable, forgetful, voluble.
Slit	n	A long narrow cut or opening.
Slit	vb	To cut apart or open along a line. 2. to make a long cut, fissure or opening. 3. to cut into strips lengthwise. 4. to sever.
Slit	phr	"Slit Up" make a narrow opening at the back of a garment etc.
Slite	vb	To impair by wear, to wear out. 2. to whet, sharpen.
Slit-eyed	adj	Having long narrow eyes.
Slither	n	An instance of sliding unsteadily; go with an irregular slipping motion
Slither	vb	To slide unsteadily; go with an irregular slipping motion.
Slithery	adj	Slippery, deceitful, untidy.
Slitty	adj	(Used derogatory of the eyes) long and narrow supposedly denoting slyness
Sliver	n	???
Sloe	n	A small plum-like astringent fruit. 2. the shrub Prunus spinoza that bears it; the blackthorn, the black thaw. 3. the wild yellow plum, Prunus america; also the Allegheny plum. 4.something or some type of thing with little or no value. 3. the apple of one's eye.
Sloe-eyed	adj	Having eyes dark as sloes.
Slop	n	Probably related to slip, water carelessly spilled; a puddle. 2. semi-liquid food; dirty liquid; water which in anything has been washed or rinsed.
Slop	vb	To spill, to soil by spilling over.
Slop	phr	"Slop Out" - (of prisoners in jail) - empty away dirty water, dregs, urine etc from vessels which have been kept overnight in the cells.
Slop	phr	"Slop Over" - spill heavily over the egde of a vessel.
Slopily	adv	In a sloppy fashion.
Sloppiness	n	The state or quality of being sloppy; muddy; mawkish.
Sloppy	adj	Wet, muddy, puddly watery. 2. weak, slovenly, slipshod, untidy. 3. maudlin, mawkishly, sentimental.
Sloom	n	A gentle sleep or slumber; a doze.??????
Sloomy	vb	To sleep lightly or gently. 2, to doze, nap, kip; take forty winks.??????
Sloth	n	The animal -- the Sloth -- known for it's slowness of movement. 2. physical or mental inactivity, disinclination to action, exertion or labour. 3. sluggishness, idleness, indolence, laziness, tardiness, slowness. 5. a slough or muddy, miry place.
Sloth	vb	To allow to slip through because of slothfulness, delay or neglect. 2. to waste, pass away time, in idleness. 3. to be indolent or lazy.
Sloth bear	n	A large-lipped shaggy bear of India, Melursus ursinus.
Slothful	adj	Characterized by, or full of sloth, slothy, indisposed to exertion, inactive, indolent, lazy, sluggish.
Slothfully	adv	In a slothful manner; lazily.
Slothfulness	n	The state or quality of being slothful: lazy, inactive, indolent, slothy.
Slothlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a sloth in some aspect.
Slough	n	A state of moral degradation in which a person sinks or has sunk. 2. soft mud, mud-pool, mire, cesspool; a miasma. 3. a side channel of a river; or a natural channel or waterway that is only filled sporadically with water. 4. a type of wetland – usually a swamp, a shallow lake, or a backwater branching from or feeding into a river – in which water tends to be stagnant or flows only very slowly on a seasonal basis.
Sloughy	adj	Abounding in mud, mire, slush, miasmic.
Slow	n	A reduced speed; a decrease or decline in rate of movement, progress, or growth.
Slow	adj	Not moving quickly, taking a long time; not happening in a short time, gradual, late. 2. slow to be understood, lacking intellectual activity; stupid or obtuse; inertia of intellect, heavy in wit, not alert, not ready, not prompt or quick, dilatory, dull, slow in speech. 3. lacking in interest as to be cause mental weariness; not alert or spirited. 4. boring, deadening, irksome, tedious, wearisome, not hast, uninclined, tardy, unprecipitous. 5. of commercial matters in business: not achieved with briskness. 5. of a period of time, esp. one spent working: characterized by a lack of incident or activity. 6. that invites unhurried appreciation; that is made in a sustainable manner, utilizing local or traditional methods. 7. that invites subtle reflection, comtemplation
Slow	vb	To lose velocity or speed; lose speed gradually, proceed more slowly. 2. be slow in doing something. 3. to render slow or slow up. 4. to slacken the speed of, to retard, delay, to go slower.
Slow	phr	"Slow and Steady wins the Race" - slowly but surely leads to effective progress
Slow	phr	"Slow As a Snail" - extremely slow.
Slow	phr	"Slow Down" - a reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production. 2. cause to live, work etc in a less active and intense way (because one's health is in danger). 3. work less energetically or effectively because of age, poor health etc.
Slow	phr	"Slow In" - (animation) to adjust the spacing of inbetween frames so as to smoothly decelerate movement of an object as it comes to rest.
Slow	phr	"Slowly Bleed to Death" - be heading in gradual steps towards ruin. 2. death by a thousand cuts.
Slow	phr	"Slow Off the Mark" - to be slow to start something.
Slow	phr	"Slow On the Uptake" - dull, stupid, silly.
Slow	phr	"Slow Out" - (animation) to adjust the spacing of intermediate frames so as to smoothly accelerate movement of an object as it comes to a resting position.
Slow	phr	"Slow Up" - to slow, slow down, decelerate.
Slowback	n	A lubber, an idle fellow, a dullard, a loiterer.
Slow-belly	n	A lazy person, an indolent glutton.
Slow-burn	adj	A gradually increasing feeling of anger and frusrtation.
Slow burner	n	A person whose anger mounts slowly, esp. someone whose fury is intense when it arises.
Slow cooking	n	The action or process of cooking food at a low temperature over a long period of time; spec. the action of cooking food in a slow cooker.
Slow-cooking	adj	Of food: that is cooked at a low temperature over a long period of time; spec. that is cooked in a slow cooker.
Slow-down	n	A go-slow industrial dispute where the worker work strictly to the letter of their industrial laws and awards. 2. the act of slowing down, slackening of pace or falling behind. 3. a go-slow, a lag, a bind, dive, dwindling, wane. ebbing, hold-up, letdown, let-up, outlaw strike, wildcat strike, a walkout.
Slowed-down	adj	That has been caused to move, operate, or progress at a reduced speed or rate.
slowed-up	adj	That has been caused to move, operate, or progress at a reduced speed or rate.
Slowen	vb	To make or become slow.
Slow-footed	adj	Moving slowly on foot.
Slow hound	n	A sleuth hound.
Slowie	n	A person who is slow to react or to understand something.
Slowiness	n	The slowing or delaying of something.
Slowing	adj	Deceleration or a slowing down
Slowish	adj	Somewhat slow or tardy.
Slowliness	n	Unskilfulness, resulting from the lack of training, awkwardness, ineptitude, maladroitness. 2. a rate demonstrating an absence of haste, slowness, deliberation, unhurriedness. 3. lack of normal development or intellectual capacities; retardation, retardation, slowness. 4. quality or state of being slow.
Slowly	adv	Without speed, tardily. 2. of clocks, timepieces etc, behind, incorrect in time; indicating a time earlier than the correct time.
Slowness	n	The quality or state of being slow. 2. physics, a unit, the reciprocal of velocity that delineates the amount of time reqiuired for an object to travel a given distance.
Slow-news day	n	A time when a media organization publishes trivial stories due to the lack of more substantial topics. 2. a specified period of time in which there are few events of sufficient interest to be worth mentioning in the news.
Slow oven	n	An oven that is needed with a comparatively cool temperature, typically not more than 150C or 300F.
Slow-play	vb	To play (a hand) as if it were weaker than it is, so as to mislead an opponent.
Slow-sighted	adj	Slow to see or observe.
Slowsome	adj	Typified by slowness or slow-some manner; characteristically slow.
Slowsome	adv	In a characteristically slow or slowsome manner; slowly.
Slow-stepping	adj	That has or is characterized by a slow pace or gait; sedate; ponderous.
Slow street	n	A state or quality on which the traffic has been slowed down, often limited to 30kmh or less by using traffic management devices.
Slowth	n	Sloth. 2. slow economic growth. 3. slowness.
Slow-walk	n	To delay a request oe command. 2. drag one's feet. 3. stall, obstruct, delay.
Slow-walk	vb	To obstruct or delay (a process, request, or person) by deliberately slowing one’s rate of progress.
Slow watch	n	A process that appears to be going more slowly if one waits for it to happen, rather engaging inits progress (a boiling pot).
Slow-witted	adj	Retarded in intellectual developments, backward, half-witted, feeble-minded, inert, mentally inattentive, dull of apprehension, not processing quickly intellectually.
Slow-wittedness	n	Quality of being slow mentally and limited intellectually.
Slow worm	n	O.E (slaywyrm), a slay worm because ignorantly it was considered dangerous. 2. a small European legless or limbless lizard giving birth to live young. The blind worm or grass snake is a small limbless lizard, which is neither (a misnomer) blind nor slow moving.
Slumber	n	Light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; doze, rset, repose, snooze, nap.
Slumber	vb	To sleep lightly' to doze; to sleep. 2. to be in a state of negligence, sloth or inactivity; to lie dormant.
Slumber	phr	"Slumber Away" - spend time in slumber.
Slumbering	n	The state of sleep or repose.
Slumberingly	adv	In a sleepy or drowsy manner.
Slumberland	n	The region or state, of slumbering.
Slumbersome	adj	Sleepy, drowsy.
Slumberwear	n	Nightwear.?