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Slime pit

Slime \Slime\ (sl[imac]m), n. [OE. slim, AS. sl[=i]m; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. sl[=i]men to make smooth, Icel. sl[=i]m slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. ???; or cf. L. limus mud.]

  1. 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.
    --Shak.

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

  3. (Script.) Bitumen. [Archaic]

    Slime had they for mortar.
    --Gen. xi. 3.

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

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

    Slime eel. (Zo["o]l.) See 1st Hag, 4.

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

Usage examples of "slime pit".

Something had obviously swallowed the others in the darkness, and James wasn't about to get himself sucked into the same slime pit of horror.