SLIMED

slimed, slimy

(adjective) covered with or resembling slime; “a slimy substance covered the rocks”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

slimed

simple past tense and past participle of slime

Anagrams

• elmids, melids, milsed, misled, smiled

Source: Wiktionary


SLIME

Slime, n. Etym: [OE. slim, AS. slim; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. slimen to make smooth, Icel. slim slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. limus mud.]

1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.

3. (Script.)

Definition: Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

4. pl. (Mining)

Definition: Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.

5. (Physiol.)

Definition: A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. Goldsmith. Slime eel. (Zoöl.) See 1st Hag, 4.

– Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.

Slime, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.]

Definition: To smear with slime. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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