Crossword clues for slitted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slit \Slit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slit or Slitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slitting.] [OE. slitten, fr. sliten, AS. st[=i]tan to tear; akin to D. slijten to wear out, G. schleissen to slit, split, OHG. sl[=i]zan to split, tear, wear out, Icel. st[=i]ta to break, tear, wear out, Sw. slita, Dan. slide. Cf. Eclat, Slate, n., Slice.]
To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
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To cut; to sever; to divide. [Obs.]
And slits the thin-spun life.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
a. Having a slit or slits.
Usage examples of "slitted".
Flashing the light behind him, Masson caught his breath in a sob of fear as he saw a dozen great rats watching him intently, their slitted eyes glittering in the light.
From sharp, backswept horns, to wide, slitted eyes, to fanged mouths, their heads were alien and as purposeful as the pack of beasts that had chased the Heralds across the Plains.
It was a shiny white moth, Laris saw through slitted eyes, battering itself to death on the cold glass, trying vainly to get at the small light burning on the table.
From the way the stickman looked up, it was obvious his comment had carried across the table, where the blonde was leaning against a man who watched through slitted eyes that moved slowly from Eugene to Tony and back again.
As The Shadow was lifted over a stringpiece to a small cabin cruiser, a glance through slitted lids showed him the East River.
Hardly had he set the lanthorn down, however, when the younger of the two Kalmyks who also served His Grace of Norfolk entered through the door that led in from the hallway, a wheel-lock dag in one hand and a kindjal in the other, his yellow-brown face expressionless, but his eyes slitted.
It was slitted front and back from ankle to midthigh, and while that enabled him to straddle a horse, he blamed the clumsy garment for his fall.
Before we could catch our breaths a swarm of black Tannese was alongside and aboard--grinning, apelike creatures, with kinky hair and troubled eyes, wearing safety-pins and clay-pipes in their slitted ears: and as for the rest, wearing nothing behind and less than that before.
This developed into the slitted and loop-holed armored coach and household guard of the Arawak of Fazir, who was himself seeking sanctuary from the Ribar of Zaroom, the Ribar having fomented an uprising by offering food to the starving populace of Fazir.
Jerks tightened the thongs, and the two Enterprise officers were pulled roughly around to confront four creatures, obvious Troglytes, their loose miners' overalls begrimed, their eyes begoggled, their features hidden by slitted masks.
The actor was bloodcurdlingly ugly, with a big nose, a long double chin, and a slitted mouth set in a permanent one-sided grimace.
Tungata was bellowing with wild laughter, and Craig flung himself forward and grabbed his ankles just as he reached the low slitted entrance of the cave.
Eleanor rested her head well back on top of the settee's cushioning, eyes slitted as she stared at the ceiling.
He lowered his hand again, watching the dance of the phase-portraits and the grand processions of the adumbrations through slitted eyes.
He drove to a private airstrip just north of Boothbay Harbor in his old but perfectly maintained car, then gritted his teeth and slitted his eyes and held onto the steel lockbox with the Polaroid Sun 660 in it for dear fife as the Mad Hatter's Beechcraft plunged down the dirt runway like a rogue horse, rose into the air just as Pop was sure they were going to fall off the edge and be smashed to jelly on the rocks below, and flew away into the autumn empyrean.