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Show $ L Y Gowernment of the Tongue be diftinguifhed by its wan fchirrus ma of inflammation in the fkin an its {fmoothnefs 2. Uncertainty ; want of firm footing SL1'PPERY. adj. [rlipun, Saxon; fliperig Swedifh. 1. Smooth ; glib the make They trim their feathers, whic oily and flippery, that the water {lips oft. Mortimer make th Arbuthnot an Oily fubitances only lubricat bowels fippery 2. Not affording firm footing Did you know the art o' th' court As hard to leave as keep ; whofe top to climb Is certain falling3 or fo flipp'ry, tha The fear's as bad as falling. = Shakefp. Cymbeline His promife to truft to as flippery as ice. Tuffer Their way fhall be as flippery ways in the dark " Fer. xxiii The flipp'ry tops of human ftate Cowley The gilded pinnacles of fate The higher they are raifed, the giddier they are nefs and the deepe the more flippery is their ftanding L' Eftrange The higheft hill is the moft flipp'ry place And fortune mocks us with a fmiling face. Denb Beauty, like ice, our footing docs betray Who can tread fure én the fmooth [lippery way Dryden 3. Hard tohold hard to keep ‘Thus furely bound, yet be not overbold The flipp'ry god will try to loofe his hold Brown's Vulgar Errours Had it hi The uppet part of him, the blo Hudilvas Had flit, as fure as that below We fliz the preternatural body open. Wifems Surg A liberty might be left to the judges to inflic death, or fome notorious mark, by flizting the nofe Temiple or brands upon the cheeks If a tinned or plated body, which, being of a even thicknefs, appears all over of an uniform colour, fhould be fiit into threads, or broken int fragments of the fame thicknefs with the plate I fee no reafon whyevery thread or fragment fhoul Neavton's Opticks not keep its colour He took a frea To flit my tongue, and make me fpeak. Swif? In St. James's fields is a conduit of brick, unt which joineth a low vault, and at the end of that there is a window And with vain images of beaftsaffright. Dryd. Geor ‘When they fall, as being flipp'ry ftander The love that lean'd on the-x/lnfisy_/lip/,';y to,o condui and in the round houfe a /it o rift of fome little breadth: if you cry out in th rift, it will make a.fearful roaring at the window 3. Uncertain ; changeable ; mutable ; in Are {Hll together; who twine, as 'twere, in lov Unfeparable, fhall within this hour On a diffenfion of a doit, break ou ‘Fo bittereft enmity Shakefpeare He Jooking dow With fcorn or pity on the flippery ftat Of kings, will tread upon the neck of fate Denbam's Sophy 6. Not certain in its effe&t One fure trick is better than a hundred fipper ones L [lubrique, French. My wite is flippery Not chafie. Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale SLI'prY. adj. [from flip. ly fading Efrange Slippery; eafi A barbarous provincial word 3 The white of an egg is ropy, flippy tious and nutriFloyer an beld clofe to it parallel to the prifms, I could fe the circles much difinéter, and vifible to a fa Newton greater number, than otherwife @, a. [yhyan Saxon. T 7o SLI'VER. § f{plit; to divide longwife to tear off longwife Liver of blafpheming Jew Sliwer'd in the moon's eclipfe. Shak. Macheth A branc SL1'VER. 7. /. [from the verb. tor S/wer off in Scotland ftill de notes a flice cut off: as, he took a larg Jiver of the beef There on the pendent boughs her coronet wee Clamb'ring to hang, an envious fliwer broke When down her weedy coronet and herfel Fell in the weeping brook. Shakefpeare's Hamlet SLoaTs. n f. Of a cart, are thofe underpieces which keep the bottom togeBailey ther SLo BBER. 7. /. [glavoerio, Welfh. See SLAVER ver Sla . n. [ flock, to quench, Swed Zo Svock ifh and Scottith.] To flake; to quench SvoE 7./ [rla, Saxon ; flaae fruit of th Th blackthorn Danifh. a {mal wild plum Jloes in them, and they will furnifh you, withou doing of your woods any hurt. Martim. Hufbandry He'vc fpip and nip, and flijh and flafh Like to @ cenfor in a barber's thop 70 St1T @. 4. pret an fitted. [ylican, Saxon, wile Shake[peare part. / an 'To cut long m any fatisfactory original omits' i¢: Skimuer derives it from lax Dutch an derives it fro "curve of a loofe rope he fair pomegranate might adorn the pine ¢ Perhaps it or ginal may be latent in /ogpen, Dygeh r:; run, flope being eafy to the ryp Oblique; not perpendicular, Tt js e] nerzlly ufed of acclivity or declivhy forming an angte greater or lefs withth plane of the horizon Where there is a greater quantity OfWater,aw iiadcz;aeliough, the water moveth with a fper i ;‘;g]l. Bag Murm'ring waters fal the flope hills, difpers'd, or ina lake That to the fringed bank with myrtle crow' Her cryftal mirror holds, unite their freams, A SLorE. 7 /. [from the adjedtive.] 1. An oblique direttion ; any thing ob. liquely direéted When yo fell your underwoods fow haw an Svoor.z /. A {mall thip, commonly wit only two mafts o S.LOP v. a [from lap, lop, flop. T drink grofsly and greedily Svop. 7./. [from the verb. Mean an vile liquor of any kind. Generally fom naufeous or ufelefs medicinal liquor. The fick hufband here wanted for neither flop L' Efirange nor do&ors But thou, whatever flops the wiil have bought Be thankful bt 1 L parhop declivity Growing upon flopes is caufed for that mofsz it cometh of moifture, fo the water muft but flde, Baw not be in a pool thighs Juft at his ftudy door he'll blefs your eyes, Pip Obliquely ; not perpendi SLorE. adv cularly Utrie Return'd on that bright beam, whofe point no rais' e i f j a t r [ a w E o S 7 To form to obliquity or declivity direét obliquely Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blow i down Though palaces and pyramids do fizg ht Ma Sh ns ti nd fo i th t Their hea On each hand the flame a es fpi n nt po i th p fl Driv'n backward roll' m Mi le .v om }. ft mi th i v le 1n billows af The ftar, that rofe at cvcmng‘bng'ht le we hi p' fi ha ce de Toward heav'n' i M wheel All night I flept, oblivious of my pain; ya 1 n' fh u e P an Aurora dawn' 1 ni ev hi p' fl h Nor, till obliq y aw de m ba th e dr Had Somnu Pap;'s Odjfl‘q T declivous d g t e e t the midit a Betwix Blacks Dryden's Fuvenal / M The flipfbod *prentice from his mafter's doo Jad par'd the dirt, and fprinkled round the floor o Savift this a fleeve my fhort closk 3ad s ? Shokfees gy SLOPE. adj. [This word is not es fr Bore him Jlope downward to the fun, now falln The grape the bramble, and the floc the vine What What faid Mr. Dogabledon abou the fys 0 My lord advances with majeftick mien And when up ten fteep [lopes you've dragg'd you Svr'psuop. adj. [ flip and jbod.] Havin the fhoes not pulled up at the heels, bu barely flipped on Sri'rsior. . /. Bad liquor. A low wor formed by reduplication of /op SrisH. 2. . A low word formed by reduplicating fla/b Inferted thus, the wounded rind we clofe. Dryden I found, by looking through a flit or oblong hole . Juft in that place a narrow flit we make i Then other buds from bearing trees we take Gall of goat; and flips of yew fworn Whofe double bofoms feem to wear one heart Whofe hours, whofe bed, whofe meal and exercife 2. Declivity; ground cut or formed with . ftable Oh world, thy flippery turns ! Friends now faf Soowe, Dy Bacon Where the tender rinds of trees difclof Their fhooting gems, a fwelling knot there grows T0 SLIVE Doth one pluck down another, and togethe Die in the faft Shake[ps Troilus and Creffida 7 and in the bric a covering. | Trowfers; open hr‘é&" Dow or narrow opening round houfe of ftone Svor, 1 /. [ylop, Saxo long cut Stit. #. /. [rlic, Saxon, which was narrower than the pupil of my-eye And various forms affume, to cheat thy fight 4. Not ftanding firm had their ears divided occafioned at firft by jl:'t/ing the ears Sharp's Surgery Slipperiuels deep in the breaft their fall The déers of Arginuf f a f Two habitab And crofs their limi i Which the twelve fi gui*‘:- raift the plin difc l erat deli w bu tongues To make plants medicinable, flit theroot, an infufe into it the medicine, as hellebore, opium fcammony, and then bind it up. Bacen's Nat. Hift 4 : : a '1 ; : 1 l p o i , w e t t o f t athwart the river down and caft int t ' n e e h i i a S There is a ftraight hole in ever 'M;"g an i -a place where they h We do not only fall by the flipperine/s of ou chief Th sL SL N On t d'ring .Pene W Qur pious la i In peace an sl |