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Found 5 hits - Term: slime, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slime \slime\ slimacm, n. oe. slim, as. slimacm; akin to
   d. slijm, g. schleim, mhg. slimacmen to make smooth, icel.
   slimacm slime, dan. sliim; cf. l. limare to file, polish,
   levis smooth, gr. ???; or cf. l. limus mud.
   1. soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality;
      viscous mud.
      1913 webster

            as it nilus ebbs, the seedsman
            upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty
      nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
      1913 webster

   3. script. bitumen. archaic
      1913 webster

            slime had they for mortar.            --gen. xi. 3.
      1913 webster

   4. pl. mining mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the
      preparatory dressing. --pryce.
      1913 webster

   5. physiol. a mucuslike substance which exudes from the
      bodies of certain animals. --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

   slime eel. zool. see 1st hag, 4.

   slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
      1913 webster
see also:
slime eel hag slime pit 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slime \slime\ slimacm, v. t. imp.  p. p. slimed
   slimacmd; p. pr.  vb. n. sliming.
   to smear with slime. --tennyson.
   1913 webster slime mold
see also:
slimed sliming 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
slime
     n : any thick messy substance syn: sludge, goo, gook, guck,
          gunk, muck, ooze
     v : cover or stain with slime; "the snake slimed his victim"
see also:
sludge goo gook guck gunk muck 
ooze 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 moby thesaurus words for "slime":
   carrion, clay, corruption, dandruff, decay, excrement, filth,
   foul matter, furfur, gangrene, glop, gumbo, gunk, mess, mire, muck,
   mucus, mud, obscenity, ooze, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scum,
   scurf, scuz, slab, slip, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slum, slush,
   smut, snot, sordes, splosh, squash, swill




[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
slime
   gen. 11:3; lxx., "asphalt;" r.v. marg., "bitumen". the vale of
   siddim was full of slime pits 14:10. jochebed daubed the "ark
   of bulrushes" with slime ex. 2:3. see pitch.
   
see also:
pitch 

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