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slur

slur is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 10 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.To disparage; to traduce. Tennyson.
  2. 2.To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.
  3. 3.To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.] To slur men of what they fought for. Hudibras.
  4. 4.To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
  5. 5.(Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. Busby.
  6. 6.(Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
  7. 7.A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to his name a lasting slur." South.
  8. 8.A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
  9. 9.(Mus.) A mark, thus [&upslur; or ], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
  10. 10.In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

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

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