Slashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slash
Slash (v. t.) To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
Slash (v. t.) To lash; to ply the whip to.
Slash (v. t.) To crack or snap, as a whip.
Slash (v. i.) To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
Slash (n.) A long cut; a cut made at random.
Slash (n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
Slash (n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
Slashed (a.) Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.
Slashed (a.) Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.
Slasher (n.) A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
Slash pine () A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in "slashes."
Slashy (a.) Wet and dirty; slushy.
Slat (n.) A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
Slatted (imp. & p. p.) of Slat
Slatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slat
Slat (v. t.) To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
Slat (v. t.) To split; to crack.
Slat (v. t.) To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate.
Slatch (n.) The period of a transitory breeze.
Slatch (n.) An interval of fair weather.
Slatch (n.) The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.
Slate (v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
Slate (v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
Slate (v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.
Slate (v. t.) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
Slate (v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.
Slate (v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
Slate (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
Slate (v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
Slated (imp. & p. p.) of Slate
Slating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slate
Slate (v. t.) To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
Slate (v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
Slate (v. t.) To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.
Slate-color () A dark bluish gray color.
Slate-gray (a.) Of a dark gray, like slate.
Slater (n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
Slater (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
Slating (n.) The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.
Slating (n.) Slates, collectively; also, material for slating.
Slatt (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
Slatter (v. i.) To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.
Slattern (n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
Slattern (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.
Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
Slatternliness (n.) The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
Slatternly (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.
Slatternly (adv.) In a slatternly manner.
Slatterpouch (n.) A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.
Slatting () Slats, collectively.
Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.
Slaty (a.) Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture.
Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing.
Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Slaughtered (imp. & p. p.) of Slaughter
Slaughtering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slaughter
Slaughter (v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Slaughterer (n.) One who slaughters.
Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Slaughtermen (pl. ) of Slaughterman
Slaughterman (n.) One employed in slaughtering.
Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; murderous.
Slavs (pl. ) of Slav
Slav (n.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.
Slave (n.) See Slav.
Slave (n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
Slave (n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
Slave (n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
Slave (n.) An abject person; a wretch.
Slaved (imp. & p. p.) of Slave
Slaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slave
Slave (v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
Slave (v. t.) To enslave.
Slaveborn (a.) Born in slavery.
Slaveholder (n.) One who holds slaves.
Slaveholding (a.) Holding persons in slavery.
Slaveocracy (n.) See Slavocracy.
Slaver (n.) A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
Slaver (n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
Slavered (imp. & p. p.) of Slaver
Slavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slaver
Slaver (v. i.) To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
Slaver (v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
Slaver (v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
Slaver (n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.
Slaverer (n.) A driveler; an idiot.
Slavering (a.) Drooling; defiling with saliva.
Slaveries (pl. ) of Slavery
Slavery (n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
Slavery (n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
Slavery (n.) The holding of slaves.
Slavey (n.) A maidservant.
Slavic (a.) Slavonic.
Slavic (n.) The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.
Slavish (a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.
Slavism (n.) The common feeling and interest of the Slavonic race.
Slavocracy (n.) The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.