The man slidder'd upon Fortune's ice. Harte *SLIDE. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. Smooth and eafy paffage.-We have fome fides or relishes of the voice or ftrings. Bacon.-Kings that have able men of their nobility fhall find ease and a better flide into their bufinefs. Bacon. 2. Flow; even "courfe.-Homer's verfes have a fide and eafinefs more than the verfes of other poets. Bacon. (1.) * To SLIDE. v. n. flid, preterite; Лlidden, participle paff. fidan, flidende, fliding, Saxon; slijden, Dutch; yf-lithe, Welsh.] 1. To país along fmoothly; to flip; to glide-Sounds do not only flide upon the surface of a smooth body. Bacon. Ulyffes, Stheneleus, Tisander slide. Denham. 2. To move without change of the foot.-Oh, Ladon, happy Ladon, rather flide than run by her, left thou shouldst make her legs flip from her. Sidney.Milton. Princes and tyrants flice the earth among them. Burnet. SLICH, n. f. in metallurgy, the ore of any metal, particularly of gold, when it has been pounded, and prepared for farther working. The manner of preparing the flich at Chremnitz in Hungary is this: They lay a foundation of wood three yards deep; upon this they place the ore, and over this there are 24 beams, armed at their bottoms with iron; thefe, by a continual motion, beat and grind the ore, till it is reduced to powder: during this operation, the ore is covered with water. Four wheels move these beams, each wheel moving fix; and the water, as it runs off, carrying fome of the metalline particles with it, is received into several basons, one placed behind another; and after having paffed through them all, and depofited some sediment in each, it is let off into a large pit, half an acre in extent, in which it is fuffered to ftand fo long as to depofit all its fediment, and after this it is let out. This work is carried on day and night, and the ore taken away and replaced by more as often as occafion requires. That ore which lies next the beams by which it was pounded is always the cleaneft and richeft. When the flich is washed as well as poffible, 1 cwt. of it ufually contains about an ounce or half an ounce of metal, which is a mixture of gold and filver; but the gold is in the largeft quantity, and ufually conftitutes two thirds of the mixture: they then put the slich into a furnace with some limestone and SLACKEN, and run them together. The firft melting produces a fubftance called lech; this lech they burn with charcoal, to make it lighter, to open its body, and render it porous, after which it is called rot; to this roft they add fand in fuch quantity as they find neceffary, and then melt it over again. At Chremnitz they have many other ways of reducing gold out of its ore, but particularly one, in which they employ no lead during the whole operation; whereas, in general, lead is always neceffary after the before-mentioned proceffes. See GOLD, 16, iv.; and METALLURGY, Part II. Sec. I. SLICK adj. [fickt, Dutch. See SLEEK.] Both flicke and daintie, yet were both in warre of wondrous dread. Chapman, -Glafs attracts but weakly fome flick tones. Brown. SLICKENBORCH, a town of Holland, in the department of the Eems, and late province of Friefeland; feated on the Linde, at its junction with the Kuynder; 28 miles S. of Leewarden, and 20 SE. of Staveren. SLID., The preterite of slide.— At first the filent venom slid with eafe. Dryd. From the tops of heav'n's steep hill the slid. Chapman. SLIDDEN. The participle paffive of slide. -Why is this people slidden back. Jer. viii. 5. To SLIDDER. v. n. (slidderen, Dutch.] To flide with interruption. Now die: with that he dragg'd the trembling fire, Slidd'ring through clotted blood. Dryden. Smooth fliding without ftep. He that once hos, like him that slides on ice, Goes fwiftly down the flippery ways of vice: He flides on fmoothly. Dryden. 3. To país inadvertently.-Make a door for thy mouth; beware hou slide not by it. Ecclus. xxviii. 26. 4. To pafs unnoticed.-With a calm careleffnefs, letting every thing flide juftly. Sidney. 5. To país along by filent and unobferved progreffion. Let the famisht flesh slide from the bone, Shak. Dryden. Eafy death will flide with pleasure in. Dryd. -Their eye flides over the pages, or the words flide over their eyes. Watts. 6. To pass filently and gradually from good to bad.-Nor could they have flid into thofe brutish immoralities of life, had they duly manured thofe dictates of right reafon. South. 7. To pass without difficulty or obftruction.-Such of them should be retained as flide easily of themselves into English compounds. Pope. Parts answering parts fhall flide into a whole. Pope. 8. To move upon the ice by a single impulse, without change of feet.~ They bathe in fummer, and in winter flide. Waller. 9. To fall by errour.-A very univerfal knowledge of things fo cleareth man's judgment, as it is the lefs apt to flide into any errour. Bacon. 10. To be not firm. * SLIDER. n. f. [from flide.] He who flides. SLIDING RULE, a mathematical inftrument, ferving to work queftions in gauging, meafuring, &c. without the ufe of compaffes; merely by the fliding of the parts of the inftrument one by another, the lines and divifions whereof give the answer by inspection. This inftrument is variously contrived and applied by various authers, par ticularly ticularly Everard, Coggeshall, Gunter, Hunt, and Partridge; but the most common and useful are thofe of Everard and Coggeshall. See GAUGING ROD, GEOMETRY, and LOGARITHMIC LINES. SLIEBH-BLOOM, mountains of Ireland, in King's and Queen's Counties, very high and steep, forming a barrier between these counties, fo impaffable, that there is only one narrow and difficult pafs in them, in an extent of 14 miles, called the Gap of Glaudine. The Barrow and the Noir rife in them. SLIEBH-DONARD, mountains of Ireland, in the county of Down, near the fea-coaft, 3000 feet above the fea level; 14 miles E. of Newry. SLIEBH-GULLEN, mountains of Ireland, in the S. of Armagh ; miles N. of Dundalk. SLIEBH-RUSSEL, mountains of Ireland, in the Bounties of Cavan and Fermanagh; 12 miles E. of Inniskilling. (1.) SLIGHT. adj. [flicht, Dutch.] 1. Small; worthless; inconfiderable. Is Cæfar with Antonius priz'd fo flight? Shak. Dryden. Slight is the fubject, but not fo the praife, If the infpire, and he approve my lays. Pope. 3. Not important; not cogent; weak.-Some firmly embrace doctrines upon flight grounds. Locke. 3. Negligent; not vehement; not done with effort.-The fhaking of the head is a geiture of flight refufal. Bacon. At one flight bound high overleap'd all bound. 4. Foolish; weak of mind.— No beaft ever was so flight. 5. Not ftrong; thin: as a flight filk. Hudibras. (2.) SLIGHT. n. f. [from the adjective.] 1. Neglect; contempt; act of fcorn.-People in misfortune conftrue unavoidable accidents into flights. Clariffa. 2. Artifice; cunning practice. See SLEIGHT.-Slight of hand has done that which force of hand could never do. South.After Nic had bambouzled John a while, what with flight of hand, and taking from his own fcore and adding to John's, Nic brought the balance to his own fide. Arbuthnot. To SLIGHT. v. a. [from the adjective.] 1. To neglect; to difregard. Beware left they tranfgrefs and flight that fole command. Milton. 2. -You cannot expect your fon fhould have any regard for one whom he fees you flight. Locke. To throw carelessly, unless in this paffage to flight be the fame with to fling.-The rogues flighted me into the river with as little remorfe as they would have drowned puppies. Shak. 3 [Slighten, Dutch.] To overthrow; to demolish. Junius, Skinner, and Ainsworth. 4. To SLIGHT over. To treat or perform carelessly.-Thefe men, when they have promifed great matters, and failed moft thamefully, will but fight it over. Bacon. Themes that ought not to be flighted over. Dryden. * SLIGHTER. ». f. [from flight.] One who difregards. *SLIGHTINGLY. adv. [from lighting.] Without reverence; with contempt.-If my fcep tick speaks lightingly of the opinions he opposes. Boyle. * SLIGHTNESS. n. f. [from slight. 1. Weak. Real neceffities, and give way the while Shak -How does it reproach the flightness of our fleepy heartless addrefles? Decay of Piety. (1.) SLIGO, a county in the province of Connaught, Ireland, 35 miles in length, and a much in breadth; bounded on the E. by that o Leitrim, on the W. by that of Mayo, on the N and NW. by the Western Ocean, and on the S and SW. by Rofcommon and Mayo. It contain 5970 houfes, 41 parishes, fix baronies, one borough and fends three members to parliarnent, two fɔɔ̃ the county, and one for the borough. (2, 3.) SLIGO, the only market town in the above county, is feated on a hay fo named, 3 miles W. of Killalla, and 110 NE. of Dublin Lon. 8. 26. W. Lat. 54. 13. N. *SLILY. adv. [from y.] Cunningly; with cunning fecrecy; with subtle covertnefs.— Were there a ferpent feen with forke tongue, Stal That lily glided towards your majesty, With this he did a herd of goats controul, Dryde That fly fpeak one thing, another think. Philip * SLIM. adv. [A cant word as it feems, an therefore not to be ufed.] Stender; thin of fhap A thin lim-gutted fox made a hard shift wriggle his body into a henrooft. L'Etrange was jogg'd on the elbow by a flim young girl d feventeen. Addison. SLIMBRIDGE, a small town of England, Gloucestershire, in a parish 20 miles in comp near the Severn, from which 20,000 acres ground have been recently recovered. Slimbridg is 11 miles from Gloucester. * SLIME. n. f. [flim, Saxon; sligm, Dutch Vifcons mire; any glutinous fubftance. As it ebbs, the feedfman Laid by the lance, and took him to the slings Whirl'd from a sling. At one sling Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. -Brick for ftone, and slime for mortar. Gen.-God caufed the wind to blow, to dry up the 2. A throw; a stroke.abundant slime and mud of the earth. Raleigh.Some plants grow upon the top of the fea, from fome concretion of slime where the fun beateth hot. Bacon. And with Asphaltick slime, broad as the gate. Milton. Now dragon grown; larger than whom the fun Ergender'd in the Pythian vale on slime. Milton. O foul descent! I'm now constrain'd Into a beat, to mix with bestial slime. Milton. *SLIMINESS. n. s. [from slimy.] Vifcofity; glutinous matter.-By a weak fermentation a pendulous sliminess is produced. Floyer. SLIMY. adj. [from slime.] 1. Overfpread with fl.me. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws. Shak. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in thofe holes, Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept As 't were in fcorn of eyes, reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep. Shak. -They have cobwebs about them, which is a fign of a slimy dronets Bacon. In their father's slimy track they tread. Dryd. -Eels for want of exercife, are fat and slimy. Arbut brost. Shoals of flow houfe-bearing fnails do creep The fwallow fweeps Philips. The slimy pool to build his hanging house. 1. Vilcous; glutinous. Thomson. Solid or slimy as in raging sea. Milton. -The aftrological undertakers would raise men, like vegetables, out of some fat and slimy soil. Bentley. SLINCK, or SLINGHE, a river of Holland, in the department of the Rhine, and late province of Dutch Guelderland; which joins the Berthel, near Borkeloe, in the ci-devant county of Zutphen. SLINESS. n. s. [from sly.] Defigning artifice. -By an excellent faculty in mimickry, my correfpondent can affume my air, and give my taciturnity a slyness, which diverts more than any thing I could fay. Addison. (1.) SLING. n s. Įslingan, Saxon; slingen, Dutch.] 1. A mitive weapon made by a trap and two ftrings; the ftone is lodged in the strap, and thrown by loofing one of the ftrings.-Sling Roses are turned with him into stubble. Job xli. 38. Dreads he the twanging of the archer's string? Or flinging stones from the Phoenician sling? Sandys. -Slings have fo much greater fwitness than a ftone thrown from the hand, by how much the end of the sling is farther off from the shoulderjoint. Wilkins.-— The Tufcan king VOL. XXI. PART I. Of thy victorious arm. Dryden Dryden Milton 3. A kind of hanging bandage, in which a wounded limb is fuftained. (2.) A SLING is an inftrument for casting stones with great violence. The inhabitants of the Ba learic islands were famous in antiquity for the dex terous management of the fling: it is faid they ufed three kinds of flings, fome longer, others fhorter, which they ufed according as their enemies were either nearer or more remote. It is added, that the firft ferved them for a head band, the fecond for a girdle, and that the third they conftantly carried in their hand. * To SLING. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To throw by a fling. 2. To throw; to caft. Not very proper. Etna's entrails fraught with fire, From rivers drive the kids, and sling your 4. To move by means of a rope.→→ Drydena Dryden His horfes foon afhore. SLINGELAND, John Peter VAN, a Flemish painter, born at Leyden, in 1640. He was a difciple of Gerard Douw, and excelled him in neatnefs of manner; but was fo flow, that he took up 3 years in painting one family picture, He died in 1691. * SLINGER. n. s. [from sling.] One who flings or ufes the fling.-The slingers went about it, and fmote it. 2 Kings iii. 25. SLINGHE. See SLINCK. (1.) SLINGING. part. n. s. is used variously at fea; but chiefly for hoifting up cafks or other heavy things with flings, i. e. contrivances of ropes fpliced into themselves at either end, with one eye big enough to receive the cafk or whatever i to be flung. There are other flings, which are made longer, and with a small eye at each end; one of which is put over the breech of a piece of ordnance, and the other eye comes over the end of an iron crow, which is put into the mouth of the piece, to weigh and hoise the gun, as they pleafe. There are also flings by which the yards are bound faft to the cross tree aloft, and to the head of the maft, with a strong rope or chain, that if the tie fhould happen to break, or to be shot to pieces in fight, the yard, nevertheless, may not fall upon the hatches. (2.) SLINGING A MAN OVERBOARD, to stop & leak in a fhip, is done thus: the man is truffed up about the middle in a piece of canvafs, and a rope to keep him from finking, with his arms at liberty, a mallet in one hand, and a plug, wrap. ped in cakum and well tarred in a tarpawling clout, in the other, which he is to beat with all dispatch into the hole or leak. H SLINK, SLINK... [from the verb.] the young of a beaft brought forth before the time; a caitling. Afb. (1.) * To SLINK. v. n. preter. slunk. [slingan, Saxon, to creep.] To fneak; to fteal out of the way. We will slink away in fupper time. Shuk. His familiars from his buried fortunes Slink away. Shak. Timon of Athens. He, after Eve feduc'd, unminded slunk Into the wood faft by. Milton. When brafs and pewter hap to ftray, And linen slinks out of the way. -She slunk into a corner, where he lay trembling. Hudibras. L'Eftrange.-Ile would pinch the children in the dark, and then slink into a corner, as if nobody had done it. Arbuth. John Bull A weafel once made fhirt to slink In at a corn-loft through a chink. -We have a fufpicious, fearful, and confrined Pope. countenance, often turning back, and sinking through narrow lanes. Swift. (2.) To SLINK. v. a. To caft; to mifcarry ot. A low word.-To prevent a mare's linking her foal in frowy weather, keep her where the may have good fpring water to drink. Mortimer. * SLIP. n. 3. [from the verb.] 1. The act of slipping; falfe ftep. 2. Errour; mistake; fault.Such wanton wild and ufual slips As are most known to youth. -Of the promise there made our mafters hath failed us, by slip of memory. Wotton.-This religious affection would be the most enormous slip the could commit. More.-One cafual slip is enough to weigh down the faithful service of a long life. L'Efrange Shak. If th' impoftor's pen have made a slip, That fhews it counterfeit. -A very easy slip I have made. Locke.-Any litDryden. tle slip is more conspicuous and obfervable in a good man's conduct than in another's. Addison. 3. A twig torn from the main ftock.--By heat of contention they are divided into many slips. Hooker. -The slips of their vines have been brought into Spain. Abb. A native slip to us from foreign feeds. Shak. Thy mother took into her blameful bed Some ftern untutor'd churl, and noble stock Was graft with crab-tree slip, whofe fruit thou -Setting feeds or slips of violets in the earth. Shak. Bacon. art. So have I feen fome tender slip, Saved with care from Winter's nip. -They are propagated not only by the feed, but Milton. fome by slips. Ray. 4. A leafh or ftring in which a dog is held, from its being fo made as to flip or become loose by relaxation of the hand. give you the slip. Locke. 6. A long narrow piece Dutch] 1. To flide; not to tread firm.-H After fome diftinguish'd leap Prier He drops his pole, and feems to slip. 2. To flide; to glide.-Oh Ladon! rather fide than run by her, left thou fhould make her legs which makes them oily and flippery, that the wa ship from her. Sidney.-They trim their feathers, ter may slip off them. Mortimer. 3. To move or fly out of place. Upon the leaft walking on it, the bone slips out again. Wiseman. 4. To fueak; to flink. From her most beastly company I 'gan refrain, in mind to slip away. Spenser -When Judas faw that his hoft slipt away he was fore troubled. 1 Mac. ix. 7.— -- Dryden I'd slip down out of my lodging. Thus one tradesman slips away. bly.-The banks of either fide feeming arms of 5. To glide; to pass unexpectedly or impercepti the loving earth, that fain would embrace it, and the river a wanton nymph, which ftill would ship from it. Sidney.-The bleffing of the Lord fhall slip from thee. Taylor. Slipping from thy mother's eye. Milton. Thrice the flitting shadow slipp'd away. Dryd Through my arms he slipt and vanish'd. When a corn slips out of their paws, they take Dryden. hold of it again. Addison.-Wife men retrieve every mispent hour which has slipped from them. Rogers. Two years which have slipped by fince, Swift. 6. To fall into fault or error.If he had been as you, Shak And you as he, you would have slipt like him. -One slippeth in his speech. Eccluf.-A man of xxi. 7. 7. To creep by overfight.-Some miftakes understanding knoweth when he slippeth. Ecclus may have slipt into it. Pope. 8. To escape; to fall away out of memory.-If they be let slip for Hooker. Though the demonftration may have the prefent, what good foever they contain is loft. slipt out of his memory, he builds upon the truth. Addison.--The mind is ready to let many of them slip, unlefs fome pains be taken to fix them. Watts (2.) To SLIP. v. a. * 1. To convey fecretly.2. To lofe by negligence.He tried to slip a powder into her drink. Arbuth. Slip no advantage That may fecure you. Ifee you ftand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. -He who only lets loofe a greyhound out of the Shak. Henry V. slip, is said to hound him at the hare. Bramball. 5. An escape; a desertion. I know not whether to give the slip be not originally taken from a dog that runs and leaves the ftring or slip in the lead--One ill man may not slip the occafion. L'EAT. er's hand. The more flame for her goodyfhip, Ben Jonson's Cat. Let us not slip th' occafion. Milton. -To slip the market, is great imprudence. Collier -For watching occafions to correct others, and lents, fcholars are moft blamed. Locke. Thus far not to slip any opportunity of fhewing their ta my author has slipt his first defign. Atterb. 3. To Th' impatient greyhound flipt from far. Dryd. 7. To throw off any thing that holds one.-My horfe flipped his bridle. Swift. 8. To pass over negligently.-With what reafon can that about indulgences be flipped over? Atterbury. *SLIPBOARD. 7. S. [flip and board.] A board fliding in grooves.-I ventured to draw back the Aipboard on the roof. Gulliver. SLIPKNOT. n. [slip and knot.] A bowknot; a knot eafily untied. They faften the reft upon the line-rowl with a flipknot. Moxon. In large wounds a fingle knot firft; and then a flipknot Sharp. (1) SLIPPER. adj. fliphur, Sax.] Slippery; not firm. Obfolete. Perhaps never in ufe but for poetical convenience. A truftlefs ftate of earthly things, and flipper hope. Spenfer. (2.) SLIPPER, or SLIPSHOE. n.. [from flip.] 1. A fhoe without leather behind, into which the foot flips eafily. Fair lined flippers for the cold. Raleigh. If he went abroad too much she'd ufe To give him flippers. King. Thrice rung the bell, the flipper knock'd the ground. 2.[Crefpis, Lat.] An herb. Pope. With scorn or pity on the flipp'ry flate 6. Not certain in its effect.-One fure trick is better than a hundred lippery ones. L'Eftrange. 7. [Lubrique, French.] Not chafte. My wife is flippery. Shak. Winter's Tale.*SLIPPY. adj. [from flip.] Slippery; easily fliding. A barbarous provincial word. The white of an egg is ropy, flippy, and nutritious. Floyer. *SLIPSHOD. adj. [flip and hod.] Having the fhoes not pulled up at the heels, but barely flipped on. The flipfhod 'prentice from his master's door Had par'd the dirt. Savift. SLIPSHOE. See SLIPPER, N° 2. *SLIPSLOP. n. S. bad liquor. A low word formed by reduplication of flop. SLIRE, a town of Norway, in the province of Chriftiania; 68 miles NNW. of Chriftiania. * SLISH. n. f. A low word formed by reduplicating of flash. Here's fnip and nip, and slish and flash. Shak. SLISHBARROW, mountains of Ireland, in the county of Sligo; 4 miles SE. of Sligo. *SLIT. n. f. [flit, Saxon.] A long cut, or narrow opening.In the brick conduit there is a window, and in the round houfe a fit or ift. Bacon. Juft in that place a narrow flit we make. Dryden. By looking through a fit or oblong hole, which was narrower than the pupil of my eyes, I could fee the circles much diftin&ter. *To SLIT. v. a. pret. and part. fit and flitted. SLIPPERILY, adv. [from slippery.] In a flip-fitten, Saxon.] To cut longwife. To make pery manner. SLIPPERINESS. n. f. [from slippery] 1. State or quality of being flippery; fmoothnefs; glibnefs. We do not only fall by the flipperinefs of our tongues. Gov. of the Tongue.-The fchirrus may be diftinguished by its want of inflammation in the fkin, its smoothnefs and flipperinefs. Sharp. 3. Uncertainty; want of firm footing. *SLIPPERY. adj. [flipur, Saxon; fliperig, Swedifh.] 1. Smooth; lib.-They trim their feathers, which makes them oily and flippery.-Oily fubftances only lubricate and make the bowels flippery. Arbuthnot. 2. Not affording firm footing. As hard to leave as keep; whofe top to climb, Is certain falling; or fo flipp'ry that The fear's as bad as falling. Shak. Cymb. Hi. promise to truft to as flipping as ice. Tuff -Their way fhall be as flippery ways. Jer. xxi. The flipp'ry tops of human ftate. Coavley -The higher they are raised, the more flippery is their ftanding. L'Etrange. The highest hill is the most flipp'ry. Denham. Who can tread fure on the smooth flippery way? 1. Hard to hold; hard to keep.- Dryden. The flipp'ry god will try to lofe his hold. 4. Not ftanding firm.— Dryden. When they fall, as being flippery ftanders, The love that lean'd on them as flipp'ry too, Doth one pluck down another. plants medicinable, fit the root, and infufe into it the medicine. Bacon.-The deers of Arginufa had their ears divided, occafioned at first by flit ting the ears. Brown. Shak. 1. Uncertain; changeable; mutable; inftable. Oh world, thy flippery turns! Shak. SLOANE, Sir Hans, Bart. an eminent phyfician and naturalift, was of Scottish extraction, his father Alexander Sioane being at the head of that colony of Scots which king James VI. settled in the H 2 north |