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Show S S The fallow fkin is for the fwarthy put Some malketh a hollownefs half a foot deep With fower fets in it, fet flantwife afteep. Tujfer And love can make a flattern of a flut. Dryden Beneath the lamp her tawdry ribbands glare The new-fcour'd manteau, and the flattern air SLAP. n. /. [ fehlap, German.] A blow Properly with the hand open, or wit fomething rather broad than fharp Gay. Sra'ry. adj. [from flate.] Having the nature of flate The laugh, the flap, the jocund curfe go round T homfon All the flone that is flaty, with a texture long and parallel to the fite of the firatum, will fplitonl lengthways, or horizontally ; and, if placed in an With Svar. adv. [ from the noun. ¢ - fudden and violent blow Peg's fervants complained ; and if they offered to come into the warehoufe, then ftraight went th yard flap over their noddle other pofition; 'tis apt to give way, ftart, and burft Arbutbrot's Hiffory of Fobn Bull SLAVE., 2. /. [¢/clasug, French. It is {ai to have its original from the §lavi, o when any confiderable weight is laid upon it Woodward on Foffils ToSvrap. v.a. [from the noun.] To firik with a {lap Dick Sclavoians, {ubdued andfol netians. who thus long had paffive fat Here ftroak'd his chin, and cock'd his ha Then flapp'd his hand upon the board And thus the youth put in his word Srarpa'H interj Prior [from flap and da/b. Prior 7o SLasH, w. a. [ flaja, to firike, Ifland Of guefts:we mak ick. S8la/% is-improper Daniel, a fprightly fvain, that us'd to fla/ The vig'rous fteeds that drew his lord's calafh To Peggy's fide inclin'd King SvasH., w. n. To ftrike at rando with a {word ; to lay about him The knights with their bright burning blade Broke their rude troops, and order did confound Hewing and flafbing at their idle thades. Fairy K Not that I'd lop the beauties from his book Like flafbing Bentley with his defp'rate hook. :Pope ‘Svasu 1 Addifon's Gato 2. One that has loft the power of refiftance Slawves to our paflions we become, and the It grews impofiible to govern men Waller ‘When once men are immerfed in fenfual things and are become flawes to their paffions and lufts 2./. [from-the verb. wound Cut' Some few received fome.cutsand flafbes that ha drawn blood Clarendon 2. A cutiin.cloth What thisa fleeve Here 's‘fnip and nip, and cut, and flith and flafp Lik to a cenfor in a barber's thop then are they moft difpofed to doubt of the exiftence of God Vilkins 3. It is ufed proverbially for the lowef ftate of life Power fhall not exempt the kings of the earth S/,zab;/}wa;'t Diftinguith'd flafbes deck the great .As each excels in birth or ftate 7 His oylet-holes are more and ampler The king's own body was a fampler Prior Svarcn. 2. /. [afea term.] The middl part of a rope or cable that hangs dow loofe Bailey SLATE. z. /. [from fit: flate'is in fom counties a crack ; or from efclate, a tile French. A grey ftone, eafily broke into thin plates, which are ufed to cove ‘houfes, or to write upon A fquare cannot be fo truly drawn upon a flat 23 it is conceived in the mind. :Grew's Cofmologia A {mall piece of a flat flate the ants laid ove the hole of their neft, when they forefaw it woul rain ¥ SvaTE d:{z/lfi.ny S/)(fiatqr w. a. [from the nown. cover the reof' T .to tile Sonnets and elegies to Chlori Woul raife a houfe about two: fories A lyrick ode would flate Swift. Sra'TER. 2./[ [ from flate.] One wh covers with flates or tiles SLA'TTERN. 2.[ [ flactti, Swedifh. woman negligent, not elegant or nice Without the raifing of which fum You dare not be fo troublefom To pinch the flasterns black and blue For leaving you their work to do Hudibras W ma always obferve, that a goflip in poli ticks is a flattern in her family, Addif, Freebolder and the great men, neither fhall meannefs excuf the pooreft flave Neifon Stave. @. #. [from the noun. drudge; to moil ; to toil The men fhould flave at cards from moxn to night Sawift Iflandick. J [faliva Slaver. One who cannot hol'(? tle ; a drivellers an idio SLA'VERY. 7. /. [from flave the condition of a flav a flave If my diffentings were out of e or obftinacy, yet no man can think?;o; :e‘::}éifi badge of flavery, by favage rudenef andimpomg qbtrufions of violence:to have th miftof hige, difpelled King Charly SLA'UGHTER. "-f- .[On}'?la , Sax from ylagan, plezan, to flrifi or killl.) Maffacre; deftruttion by the fivord, Sinful:Macduff They wereall firuck for thee Not for their own demerits, butfor mine Latin; flefa Milten The pair you fee i Now friends below, in-clofe embraces join But, when they leave the fhady realms of night With mortal hate each other fhall purfue What wars, whatwounds, what flaughter fhallenfyel 7o SLA'ucHTER Diyden @.a. [from the nom To maflacre ; to flay; to kill witht {word Your caftle is furpris'd, your wife and babe Savagely flaughter'd Shake[peare's Macheth Mathiolus hath a paffage, that a toad communicates its venom not only by urine, but by th humidity and flawer of its mouth, which will no confift with truth Brozwn Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right It is the flawer kills, and not the bite Pope 70 SLA'VER. w. z. [from the noun. 1. 'To be fmeared with fpittle zimtint for the butcher Away with me, all you whofe fouls abho TI uncleanly favour of arflaugbterbwfe; For I am ftifled with the {fmell of fin Shakefp Shake[peare. The mad mothers with their howls confus' Do break the clouds; as did the wives of Jewry At Herod's bloody hunting flaughtermen Hery V Shakefpeare' Ten chas'd by one Are now efch one the flaughtermap of twenty Shakefpear See, thou fight'ft againft thy counttymen And join'ft with them will be thy flaughtermt Shake[peare's Henry V I have fupt full with horrours Direnefs familiar to my flaughterous tho'ughts‘ Cannot once ftart me Shakefpeare :Mat'hf Mor Semile o A thin flavifb did I ne'er, than anfwerin A flav{lwithout a knock Shakefpeare's (:'_ymblfwf You have among you many a purchas'd fla:le Which, like your affes, and ygz/);r dogs and mults You ufe in abje&t and in flavif part Becaufe you bought them. .Shake Merch. of Verict The fupreme God, t' whtqm all things il flavi/b officers of vengeance \A;ll;'s ?ee i guardia é/]lifl;'ri fcnf Woul To keep my life and honour unaflail d. of fiaw#p‘:fi Thofe are the labour'd birth pains bu poetry o effec th No rehearf love mutua ou bard Slavif In lying ftrains and ignominious verfe P'i,"‘ Se e. vi fl r { v a L s v a S Mifo came with fcowling eyes to deliver a flaver ing good-morrow to the two ladies " l a m l l v Sidney Why muft he fputter, fpawl, and Sawver it S ' / v fl m r [ / 7 S N S V A S In vain, againft the people's favourite Sawift. pu nefs a m t l w 70 SLAWER. w. 2. To {mear with drivel. xo st Pa e f e e p a w A S T Twitch'd by the flave, he mouths it more and Slain. [ flakan, Gothick; rlean,kfll" more SLA'UGHTERMAN. 2. /. [ flaughter an man. One employed in killing Are but a Slaver with lips as common as the ftair That mount the capitol; join gripes with hand Muade hard with hourly falfehood as with labour me SLA"UGHTERHOUSE. . /. [ floaughteran '#% 1 houfe.] Houfe in which beafts are killed w5 mouth ; drivel 2. To emit {pittle b Fell flaughter on their fouls Shakefp, Machap On each hand flaughterand gigantick deeds SLa'visH. adj. [from fave Spittle running from the mean ; bafe; dependant Shoul To|Sra'ucHTEROUS. adj. [fromfiaugl;ter-i Deftru&ive ; murderous Had women been the makers of our laws SLA'VER. 7 SLAVERER. 7. /. [ flabbaerd, Dy ;:- them flawe Inhofpitably Milton The condition of fervants was different fro what it is now, theybeing generally flaves, and fuc as were bought and fold for money Sotth Perfpeélive a painter muft not wantj yet without fubjeting ourfelves fo wholly to it, as to become flawes of it Dryden To-morrow, houldwe thusexprefs our friendfhip Each-might receive a flawe into his arm Thie fun perhaps, this morning fun, 's the laf That e'er fhall rife on Roman liberty 1. To cut+ to cut with long cnts 2. To lath not The banifh'd Kent, who in difguif Follow'd*his enemy king, and did him fervic Improper for.a flave Shakefpearc's King ‘Lear Thou elyifh markt, abortive, rooting hog Thon that wait feal'd -in thy nativit The flave of nature, and the fon of hell Shakefpeare's:Richard 111 And yet, flapdafb, is all agai In ev'ry finew, nerve, and vein by the Ze- 1. One mancipated to a mafter freeman ; a dependant All at once: as.any thing broad fallswith a flap into the water, and dafbes i about A low word SL} P 3 Till with white froth his gown is flaver'd oler Dryden. T k r f t c u D e h a J butcher; to put to death £ |