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slough
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Word definitions for slough in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slough \Slough\, a. Slow. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cast-off skin" (of a snake or other animal), early 14c., slughe , slouh , probably related to Old Saxon sluk "skin of a snake," Middle High German sluch "snakeskin, wineskin," Middle Low German slu "husk, peel, skin," German Schlauch "wineskin;" from Proto-Germanic ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "out dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed , molt , exuviate , moult ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB off ▪ Pieces of the bowel or stomach wall may slough off in diarrhea. ▪ After sloughing off Payless, May could turn its attention to acquisitions, possibly of other department stores, analysts said. ▪ The edges ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. 2 Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. n. 1 The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. 2 Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To shed (skin). 2 (context intransitive English) ...
Usage examples of slough.
It was little he could see of the road, and ere long he had tried many moss pools and sloughs, as his braw new coat bare witness.
How much of the disease, how much of the corruption, how much of the unkindness, how much of the cruelty, how much of all that still remains in us of the animal, might have been outgrown, sloughed off, put underneath our feet!
Where the periosteum had sloughed the bone was granulating, and at the time of the report skin-grafting was shortly to be tried.
Even from this distance and with so little light he could see that the enemy had sloughed off its ragged coat and moved in the air like a serpentine engine, its immense form in constant, peristaltic motion.
The Googles ate of the babu root, perhaps ceremonially, and they forgot, and in the forgetting they sloughed their culture from them, retrogressing four entire culture pouits.
It was a good two hours of methodical sloughing ahead before he came in sight of the sentinel pine Art had told him about.
The blackened flesh was sloughing away from bones that looked less human than the People had seemed in life.
There was another subterraneous tug, a juddering as if the earth wanted to slough off the rubbish heaped onto it.
Well, I got in amongst the trashy bushes, sloughed and plowed my head around, and finally unhooked the epidermis from my upper and lower jaws.
In the slough of uncleanliness wallows The he-goat, and revels the hog.
Credulous hears the fidelity swear, Which has roving eyes over yielded lips: To-morrow will fancy himself the seduced, The stuck in a treacherous slough, Because of his faith in a purchased pair, False to a vinous vow.
Grace of Ebury performed his most brilliant feat of statesmanship, and redeemed that local off-shoot of the Church of Christ over which he ruled from the political slough whereinto it had fallen.
We were coming in a bobsled, but we got stuck in the snow in a slough.
Silhouetted against the late afternoon light, a small, corpulent man entered La Bretonne, darkness sloughing off him like dust.
In Slough, Dagenham, Barnet, Letchworth, Hayes -- everywhere, indeed, on the outskirts of great towns -- the old pattern is gradually changing into something new.