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SLIMES
Noun
slimes
plural of slime
Verb
slimes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slime
Anagrams
• milses, misles, missel, smiles
Proper noun
Slimes
(UK, slang) Slimelight, an alternative club night in London, established in the 1980s.
Anagrams
• milses, misles, missel, smiles
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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