Definition of slip

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Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..

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Sliding :: Sliding (a.) Slippery; elusory.
Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Uncertain in effect.
Phylactery :: Phylactery (n.) A small square box, made either of parchment or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi. 4-9, 13-22. They are worn by Jews on the head and left arm, on week-day mornings, during the time of prayer..
Palsywort :: Palsywort (n.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers.
Vane :: Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..
Lubricity :: Lubricity (n.) Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune..
Illapsable :: Illapsable (a.) Incapable of slipping, or of error..
Macule :: Macule (n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle..
Paigle :: Paigle (n.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose..
Labile :: Labile (a.) Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize..
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..
Slipthrift :: Slipthrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Sandaliform :: Sandaliform (a.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper.
Slip :: Slip (n.) An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip..
Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise..
Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
Slipperness :: Slipperness (n.) Slipperiness.
Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination..
Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos
Slabbery :: Slabbery (a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy..
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