SLOUGH
\slˈa͡ʊ], \slˈaʊ], \s_l_ˈaʊ]\
Definitions of SLOUGH
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Slow.
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A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
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A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
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imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
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The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
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The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
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To cast off; to discard as refuse.
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To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; - often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
By Oddity Software
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Slow.
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A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
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A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
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imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
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The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
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The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
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To cast off; to discard as refuse.
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To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; - often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
By Noah Webster.
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Slow.
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A place of deep mud or mire.
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Dead tissue cast off; a skin, as of a serpent, that has been shed.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A place full of deep mud; a bog.
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Slonghy.
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The cast-off skin of a snake; the part that comes off from a festering sore.
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To come away, as dead matter from sound flesh; come off or be shed, as the skin of an animal; to shed the skin.
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To cast off.
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Sloughy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Necrosed tissue separated from the living structure. 2. To separate from the living tissue, said of a dead or necrosed part.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A hollow filled with mud: a soft bog or marsh.
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The cast-off skin of a serpent: the dead part which separates from a sore.
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To come away as a slough: to be in the state of sloughing.
By Daniel Lyons
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A cast-off skin; dead part cast off from a sore.
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A miry place; quagmire.
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To cast off a slough, or as a slough.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A deep muddy place in which one may be engulfed; a soft bog or marsh.
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The cast-off skin of a serpent or similar reptile; the dead structure of flesh that separates from a wound, or during mortification.
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To separate from the living parts of flesh in a sore; to peel or fall off.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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