Index of English words, starting with "sl"

(1) - Sludge (n.) See Slime, 4.
(2) - Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.
(3) - Sludge (n.) Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

(1) - Slue (n.) See Sloough, 2.
(2) - Slue (v. i.) To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.
(3) - Slue (v. t.) In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round.
(4) - Slue (v. t.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.
(5) - Slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

(1) - Slug (v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
(2) - Slug (v. t.) To strike heavily.
(3) - Slug (v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
(4) - Slug (v. t.) To make sluggish.
(5) - Slug (v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle.
(6) - Slug (n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
(7) - Slug (n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
(8) - Slug (n.) A ship that sails slowly.
(9) - Slug (n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
(10) - Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
(11) - Slug (n.) A hindrance; an obstruction.
(12) - Slug (n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

(1) - Slugabed (n.) One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.