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Slough :: Slough (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics..

Slough :: Slough (a.) Slow.

Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..

Sphacelus :: Sphacelus (n.) Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax..

Swig :: Swig (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off..

Spoilable :: Spoil (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal..

Slough :: Slough (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

Slue :: Slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2..

Slough :: Slough (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh..

Welter :: Welter (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough..

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Full of sloughs, miry..

Slough :: Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Slough :: Slough (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal..

Sloughed :: Sloughed (imp. & p. p.) of Sloug.

Sloughing :: Sloughing (n.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis..

Sloughing :: Sloughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sloug.

Aphthae :: Aphthae (n. pl.) Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush..

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