Definition of slip

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Slip (n.) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place..

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Dagon :: Dagon (n.) A slip or piece.
Hornbook :: Hornbook (n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer..
Zest :: Zest (v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything..
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Parceling :: Parceling (n.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc..
Scaleboard :: Scaleboard (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
Butter-fingered :: Butter-fingered (a.) Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless..
Isthmus :: Isthmus (n.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc..
Snowslip :: Snowslip (n.) A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc..
Gliddery :: Gliddery (a.) Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.
Slape :: Slape (a.) Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.
Palsywort :: Palsywort (n.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers.
Lot :: Lot (n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots..
Miscue :: Miscue (n.) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired..
Forgetfulness :: Forgetfulness (n.) The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
Bo Tree :: Bo tree () The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha..
Roan :: Roan (n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
Slabbery :: Slabbery (a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy..
Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..
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