slime
slime is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive called?
- What is bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi called?
- What is 4. pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce called?
- What is 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 called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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