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noun

Slime n.

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."

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

(Script.) Bitumen. (Archaic) "Slime had they for mortar."

pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

(Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.

Slime eel. (Zool.) See 1st Hag, 4.

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

verb

Slime v. t. (past & past part. slimed; pres. part. sliming) To smear with slime.

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Etymology of 'Slime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slime" Quotes from Famous Books

... reeking. On he flew down the long Sunday Hill until he reached the deep Kingsley Marsh at the bottom. No, it was too much! Flesh and blood could go no farther. As he struggled out from the reedy slime with the heavy black mud still clinging to his fetlocks, he at last eased down with sobbing breath and slowed the tumultuous ...

— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... and after this brief episode they continued their journey upwards with a firmer sense of security; a smoky oil lamp on the first floor landing guided their footsteps by casting a flickering light on the narrow stairway, whereon slime and filth crept unchecked through the ...

— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy

... but it was almost his undoing, for he slipped in the mud and went down heavily. For a moment he lay in the slime and water, with the rain beating on him, and the wind whipping about ...

— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman

... who suffers most, for he has to live, eat, sleep, and work in the mud. The plain of dragging slime that stretches from Switzerland to the sea is far worse to face than the fire of machine guns or the great black trench-mortar bombs that come twisting down through the air. It is more terrible than the frost and the rain—you cannot even ...

— Mud and Khaki - Sketches from Flanders and France • Vernon Bartlett

... Almighty thunders from the sky, Their grandeur melts, their titles die, As hills of snow dissolve and run, Or snails that perish in their slime, Or births that come before their time, Vain births, that ...

— The Psalms of David - Imitated in the Language of The New Testament - And Applied to The Christian State and Worship • Isaac Watts

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