Definition of slip

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Slip (n.) A leash or string by which a dog is held; -- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand..

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Slipskin :: Slipskin (a.) Evasive.
Scissel :: Scissel (n.) The slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.
Slipthrift :: Slipthrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The land which slips down.
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..
Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
Primrose :: Primrose (a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside..
Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..
Bilk :: Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor..
Label :: Label (n.) A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package..
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Slip :: Slip (n.) A narrow passage between buildings.
Slip :: Slip (n.) A loose garment worn by a woman.
Slip :: Slip (n.) A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip..
Sandaliform :: Sandaliform (a.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper.
Slip :: Slip (n.) A child's pinafore.
Slip :: Slip (n.) Any covering easily slipped on.
Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc..
Slip :: 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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