SLACK, slak, _n._ (_Scot._) a cleft between hills: a common: a boggy place.
[Scand., Ice. _slakki_, a hill-slope.]
SLADE, sl[=a]d, _n._ a little valley or dell; a piece of low, moist ground.
[A.S. _slæd_, a plain; prob. Celt., Ir. _slad_.]
SLADE, sl[=a]d, _n._ a peat-spade.
SLAE, a Scotch form of sloe.
SLAG, slag, _n._ vitrified cinders from smelting-works, &c.: the scoriæ of
a volcano.--_v.i._ to cohere into slag.--_adj._ SLAG'GY, pertaining to, or
like, slag. [Sw. _slagg_; cf. Ger. _schlacke_, dross.]
SLAIN, sl[=a]n, _pa.p._ of slay.
SLAISTER, sl[=a]s't[.e]r, _n._ (_Scot._) a slobbery mess, slovenly
work.--_v.t._ to bedaub.--_v.i._ to slabber: to move about in a dirty,
slovenly manner.--_adj._ SLAIS'TERY. [Prob. Sw. _slaska_, to dabble, slask,
wet.]
SLAKE, sl[=a]k, _v.t._ to quench: to extinguish: to mix with water: to make
slack or inactive.--_v.i._ to go out: to become extinct.--_adj._
SLAKE'LESS, that cannot be slaked: inextinguishable. [A.S. _sleacian_, to
grow slack--_sleccan_, to make slack--_sleac_, slack.]
SLAKE, sl[=a]k, _n._ a channel through a swamp or morass: slime. [Ice.
_slakki_, a hill-slope.]
SLAKE, sl[=a]k, _v.t._ (_Scot._) to besmear.--_n._ a slabbery daub. [Prob.
conn. with Ice. _sleikja_, to lick; Ger. _schlecken_, to lick.]
SLAM, slam, _v.t._ or _v.i._ to shut with violence and noise: to throw down
with violence: to win all the tricks in a card-game:--_pr.p._ slam'ming;
_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ slammed.--_n._ the act of slamming: the sound so made:
the winning of all the tricks at whist, &c. [Scand., Norw. _slemma_, Ice.
_slamra_.]
SLAM, slam, _n._ an old card-game.