Definition of slip

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Slip (n.) The act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice..

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Slip :: Slip (n.) A loose garment worn by a woman.
Scaleboard :: Scaleboard (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
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..
Slip :: Slip (n.) To depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work..
Tickle-footed :: Tickle-footed (a.) Uncertain; inconstant; slippery.
Bedstaff :: Bedstaff (n.) A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side..
Backsliding :: Backsliding (a.) Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.
Lungwort :: Lungwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip..
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Slip :: Slip (n.) Any covering easily slipped on.
Butterfish :: Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand..
Slip :: Slip (n.) A slender piece; a strip; as, a slip of paper..
Sliding :: Sliding (a.) Slippery; elusory.
Glib :: Glib (superl.) Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib..
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses..
Cowslipped :: Cowslipped (a.) Adorned with cowslips.
Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..
Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
Pew :: Pew (n.) One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow..
Slipperily :: Slipperily (adv.) In a slippery manner.
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