What does "slime" mean?
Slime: Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
Additional senses
- 2.(Script.) Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi.
- 3.4. pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.
- 4.(Physiol.) 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.
- 5.To smear with slime. Tennyson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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