Slur \Slur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring.]

[Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl?ra, slo?ra, to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish girl.]

1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. --Cudworth.

2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.

3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. --Dryden.

4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]

To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras.

5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. --Busby.

7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Slur \Slur\, n.

1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. ``Gaining to his name a lasting slur.'' --South.

2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]

3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)