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_To_ ~Slairt~ _about_, to go about sluggishly, S. B.

Teut. _sloordigh_, sordidus.

_To_ SLAISTER, SLYSTER, _v. n._

1. To do any thing in an awkward and dirty way, S.

_Antiquary._

2. To work in any thing moist or unctuous, S.

3. To move clumsily through a miry road, S.

Su. G. _slask-a_, humorem sordidum effundere.

_To_ ~Slaister~, _v. a._ To bedaub, S.

_Ferguson._

~Slaister~, ~Slyster~, ~Slaistery~, _s._ A heterogeneous ma.s.s, S.

_Ferguson._

SLAIT, _pret._ Slitted, cut.

_Evergreen._

_To_ SLAIT, _v. a._

1. To level.

Su. G. _slaet-a_, id.

2. To depreciate, W. Loth.

3. To abuse grossly, to maltreat.

_Guthrie._

4. To wipe.

_Ritson._

SLAIt.i.t, _part. pa._ Exhausted with fatigue.

_Balnevis._

Teut. _slete_, tritus, _slet-en_, atterere.

SLAK, SLACK, SLAKE, _s._

1. An opening in the higher part of a hill or mountain, where it becomes less steep, and forms a sort of pa.s.s, S.

_Barbour._

2. A gap or narrow pa.s.s between two hills or mountains.

_Wyntown._

3. _The slack of the ha.s.s_, the narrowest part of the throat, Loth.

Su. G. _slak_, remissus; also, the hollow of the side.

SLAKE, SLAIK, SLEEGH, SLOKE, _s._

1. The oozy vegetable substance in the bed of rivers, S. B. _slauk._

_Stat. Acc._

2. Navel laver, S. B.

_Lightfoot._

Su. G. _slak_, laxus; as being soft and flaccid.

SLAKE, _s._ A blow on the chops.

_Kelly._

A. S. _slaege_, Su. G. Belg. _slag_, ictus.

_To_ SLAIK, _v. n._ To slacken.

_Wallace._

SLAM, SLAMMACH, _s._ A share of any thing acquired by forcible or artful means, S. B.

Su. G. _slam-a_, coacervare; _slem_, craft.

_To_ ~Slammach~, _v. a._ To seize.

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