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Show SL1 S 2, To throw carelefsly : unlefs in this paffage to flicht be th fame with to fing "TChe rogues flighted me into the river with a little remorfe as they would have drowned puppies Shak ::/'[)L‘(I)'C To overthrow ; t [ flighten, Dutch. demolith. Funius. Skinner. Ainfworth 4. Z0 SuicuT over. To treat or perfor carelefsly 3 Thefe men, when they have promifed great mat ters, and failed moft‘fhamefully, if they hay perfeétio of boldnefs, will but flich th it ¢ver, an Bacon's EfJays no more ado His death and your deliveranc Were themes that ought not to be flichted over Dryden SLYGHTER. . £ [from flight.] One wh difregards Sii‘cuTINGLY. adv. [from flighting. Without reverence ; with contempt L If my feeptick fpeaks flightingly of the opinion he oppofes, I have done no more than became th part Boyle Sircariy. adv. [from fight. 1. Negligently; without regard Wouds, both becaufe they are common, and d not {o firongly move the fancy of man, are for th Hooker moft part but flightly hearG Leave nothing fitting for the purpof . Mntouch'd, or flizhtly handled in difcourfe, Shak You were to blam sasi T'o part fo flightly with your wife's firfk gift, Shak ‘The letter-writer diffembles his knowledge o ‘this feftriction, and contents himfelf flightly t mention it towards the clofe of his pamphlet Arterbary 2. Scornfully ; contemptuoully. Long had the Gallick monarch, uncontroul'd, Enlarg'd his borders, and of human force Opponent flightly thought Pbilips 3. Weakly;. without force Scornmo The facile gates of hell; too flightly barr'de Milton 4. Without worth SL1'GHTNESS. # [ [from fight. 1. ‘Weaknefs; want of firength 2 Negligence ; want of attention ;. wan of vehemence ‘Where gentry, title, wifdom "Cannot conclude but by the yea and n Of general ignorance, it mu omi Real neceflities, and give way the whil Shakefpeare's Corivlanus T unftable flightnefs What firopg cries muft they be that thall drow {o loud a clamour of impieties ! and how does i reproach the flightnefs of our fleepy heartlefs ad dreffes Decay of Piety S11Ly. ado. [from fp. Cunningly with cunning fecrecy ; with fubtile covertnefs Were there a ferpent feen with forked tongue That flily glided towards your majefty It were but neceffary you were wak'd szlk{/}) He, clofely falfe and flily wife Caft how he might annoy them moft from far Fairfax Satan, like a cunning pick-lock, flily fobs us o Decay of Piety our grand treafurc With this he did a herd of goats controul Which by the way he met, and flily ftole Diyden £lad like a country fwain May hypocrites That flily fpeak one thing, another think Hateful as hell, pleas'd with. the relifh weak Drink on unwarn'd, till by inchanting cup Infatuate, they their wily thoughts difclofe And through intemperance grow a while fincere Philips Srim adv [a cant word as it feems an_d therefore not to be ufed. shin of fhape X Slender A thin flim-gutted fox madea hard fhift fo wriggle his body into a henrooft ; and when he ‘ha ftuft his guts well, fqueezed hard to get out again L'Efrange but the hole was too little I was jogged on the elbow by a flinz young girl o Addifon feventeen SvimE. #. /2 [ylm, Saxon 3 flig;m, Dutch. Vifcous mire ; any glutinous fubftance The higher Nilus fwell The more it promifes: asit cbbs, the feedfma Shak Upon the flime and ooze fcatters his grain Gengfis Brick for ftone, and flime for mortar God, out of his goodnefs, caufed the wind t blow, to dry up the abundant flime and mud of th earth, and make the land more firm, and to cleanf the air of thick vapours and unwholefome mifts Raleigh Some plants grow upon the top of the fea, fro fome concretion of flime where the fun beateth hot and the fea ftirveth little. Bacon's Natural Hiftory And with afphaltick flime, broad as the gate Deep to the roots of hell, the gather'd beac Milton's Paradife Loft They faften'd Now dragon grown; larger than whom the fu Engender'd in the Pythian vale on flime Miltor's Paradife Lofs Huge Python O foul defcent! I'm now conftrain' Into a beaft, to mix with beftial fJime Milton This eflence to incarnate and imbrute Svi'MiNESss. z /. [from fimy.] Vilcofity glutinous matter By a weak fermentation a.pendulous fliminefs i Floyer produced, which anfwers a pituitous ftate. Svni'MY.ced. [from flime. 1. Overfpread with {lime My bended hook fhall pierc Their fliny jaws; and, asI draw them up Tllithink them every one an Antony. sShakefpear Some lay in dead men's fkulls 5 and in thofe holes ‘Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept infcorn of eyes, refleéting/gems As'twere That woo'd the flimy bottom of the deep And mock'd the dead bones that lay featter'd by Shakefpeare They have cobwebs about thems, which is a fig Bagon of a flimy drynefs The reft are all by bad example led And in their father's flimy track they treads Dryd Eels, for want of exercife, are fat and fimy dArbuthnot Shoals of flow houfe-bearing fnails do cree O'er the ripe fruitage; pasing flimy track Philips In the fleek rind The fwallow fweep The flimy pool to build his hanging houfe. Thoni/ 2. Vifcous ; glutinous ‘Wide anarchy of chaos, damp and dark Hovering upon the waters, what they me Solid or flimy, as in raging fea Toft up and down, together crowded drove. Milton The aftrological undertakers would raife me b digefte of the fling is farther off fropy ch . uch t fheicbureon o g i fat and flimy foil, wel . fo [from /f. fl([dlfm ffly [rlingan Saxon flingen 1. A miffive weapon made by a ftrap an two ftrings ; the ftone is lodged in th ftrap, and thrown by loofing one of th ftrings The arrow cannot make him flee : fling ftone are turned with him into ftubble Fob, xli. 28 Dreatls he the twanging of the archer's fring Or finging ftones from the Phenician fling Sting The beated lead; half melted a5 it flewflnd Drydent g Whirl'd from a fling, or froman a5 4 Amidgt the foes So flew the beaé as flies 2. A throw ; a ftroke g mjpht fleflglneg}_,mn &f,',';'dm.' 0 At on ch- fli a'fi ljcz g Of thy vi€orious arm Both fin and death, and yawning grag ;t Through chaos hurl'd, obftru@ the mout :ffitI ; Mllf_w.( . 3+ A kind of hangin bandage 2. To throw Not Very proper a wounded limb is gfufiained%e' In whic 7o SLING. v. a. [from the noun, 1. To throw by a fling to caft ZBtna's entrails fraught with fire Per That now cafts out dark fumes and pitd:y-clo Inceéns'd,-or tears up mountains by the roots, Or flings a broken rock aloft in air 3. To hang loofely by a fring Aéfifi From rivers drive the kids, and Jling your hook Anon I'll wath 'em in the fhallow brook, -D.,d,,,' 4. 'To move by means of a rope Cenus I faw amidft the fhout Of mariners, and bufy care to flin His horfes foon afhore Dryden's Cleomums They flung up one of their largeft hogthéaas, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out th top Gulliver's Traud, SLI'NGER. 7. /. [from fling.] Onewhy {lings or ufes the fling The flingers went about it, and fmoteit Zo SLiNk Saxon ZKl.flgS, ifi- 25 L; @.n preter. flunk, [yhngan to creep. To fneak; tofiea out of the way We will flink away in fupper time, difguifen at my lodging, and return all in an hour " Shakefpeare's Merchant of Veic As we do turn our back From our companion, thrown into his grave So his familiars fro his buried fortunes of Aebent Shakefpeare's Timo Slink away He, after Eve feduc'd, unminded flunk = " Miltor's Paradife Lif Into the wood faft by k dwel dot Not far from henc ‘A cunning man, hight Sidrephely On deep importances repair & When brafs and pewter hap to firay Hudibras And linen flinks out of the way She flank into a corner, where fhe lay Elfmbllg L E]}f% ¢ till the company went their way He would pinch the-childreinn the dark, i then Jlink into a corner, as if nobody had done | Job Hiff Arbutbnot' A weafel once made fhift to flink Sandys have fo much greater fwiftnefs shan In at a corn-loft through a_Chil{k Defignin turnity a [lynefs, which diverts more than any thin Svrine. n / Dutch. k Thrice whirl'd the thongaround hig b the kindly heat of the fun, and im By an excellent faculty in mimickry, my correfpondent can affume my air, and give my taciI coul The Tufca Laid by the lance, and took h?;fi:,ntghe pregnated with the influence of the ftars. = Bentley Svi'ness artifice o the fhoulde To whom all people far and nea Then both from out hell, gates, into the wafte like vegetables, out of fom fione thrown from the‘hénj;ib fasdis P But having amply ftuffd his fkin M'P' Could not get out as he got in thlo co an fearful fufpicious We hav _[Imltm%qu an back turnin ofte countenance V narrow lanes To Suink.v. a of A low word T caft; to mifears ; fl én l, fo h n nk fl To prevent a mare' weather keep her where fhe may have g0 MQE"_M water to drink ? /h' e T SLIP. w. . [ylipan, Saxoms Dutch r f t n i { 1. T f e wh j If 2 man walks over a narrow fl‘mdftes ;1"]} h g O a t e n w is drunk, it is n CRN tion while he overlooks his danger' f;ber, and views that nice fep?"at."'n'l??;'w,;:l;houl i felf and the devowring dgep) {o thaty' ;\\EEQ A |