slime

slime is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
  2. 2.(Script.) Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi.
  3. 3.4. pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.
  4. 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. 5.To smear with slime. Tennyson.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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