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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: slash pine - slaveholder</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="slashpine"> slash pine,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a pine common in swamps of the southeastern United States. <DD> 2. its hard, durable wood. <DD> 3. =loblolly. </DL> <A NAME="slashpocket"> slash pocket,<DL COMPACT><DD> a diagonal pocket in an outer garment, with no flap on the outside. </DL> <A NAME="slat"> slat (1), noun, verb, slatted, slatting.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a long, thin, narrow piece of wood or metal. Ex. All the houses of the village were covered with slats or tiles (J. Davies). <DD> 2. a hinged airfoil on the leading edge of an airplane's wing tip. It slants forward at low speeds to help the wing provide lift. <DD>v.t. to provide or build with slats. Ex. to slat a roof. expr. slats, (Slang.) the ribs. Ex. to take a stiff punch in the slats. </DL> <A NAME="slat"> slat (2), verb, slatted, slatting, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD>v.t. 1. to flap, cast, or dash. <DD> 2. to strike or beat; knock. <DD>v.i. to flap violently. Ex. The mainsail was blowing and slatting with a noise like thunder (Richard Henry Dana). <DD>noun a slap. </DL> <A NAME="slat"> S. Lat. or S. lat.,<DL COMPACT><DD> south latitude. </DL> <A NAME="slate"> slate (1), noun, adjective, verb, slated, slating.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a fine-grained, usually bluish-gray rock that splits easily into thin, smooth layers. Slate is used to cover roofs and for blackboards. <DD> 2. a thin piece of this rock. Some children used to write on slates, but now they use paper. <DD> 3. a dark, bluish gray. <DD> 4. a list of candidates, officers, or others, to be considered, as for appointment, nomination, or election. Ex. Apprehensions of Administration leaders that the Republican right wing will try to put up a rival slate are declining (Newsweek). <DD>adj. dark bluish-gray. <DD>v.t. 1. to cover with slate. <DD> 2. to list on or as if on a slate. Ex. He is slated for nomination to the office of club president. expr. clean slate. See under clean slate. expr. on the slate, on credit. Ex. Old-age pensioners would not be able to pop into the corner shop for a quarter pound on the slate (Punch). expr. wipe the slate clean, to remove past errors or wrongdoings from one's record. Ex. Germany ... has now wiped the slate clean. It is clearly in Britain's interest to reciprocate (Manchester Guardian Weekly). adj. slatelike. </DL> <A NAME="slate"> slate (2), transitive verb, slated, slating.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to thrash severely. <DD> 2. (Figurative:) Ex. The reviewers slated his book. </DL> <A NAME="slateblack"> slate black,<DL COMPACT><DD> a slate color having less than one tenth the luminosity of white. </DL> <A NAME="slateblue"> slate blue,<DL COMPACT><DD> a dull blue with a grayish tinge. </DL> <A NAME="slatecoloredjunco"> slate-colored junco,<DL COMPACT><DD> a grayish North American junco with white belly and outer tail feathers; snowbird. </DL> <A NAME="slategray"> slate gray,<DL COMPACT><DD> a relatively luminous slate color. </DL> <A NAME="slatepencil"> slate pencil,<DL COMPACT><DD> a pencil of soft slate or similar material, used for writing on a slate. </DL> <A NAME="slater"> slater (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who covers roofs with slates. <DD> 2. (Scottish.) a wood louse. </DL> <A NAME="slater"> slater (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a violent critic. </DL> <A NAME="slatewriter"> slate writer,<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who practices slate writing. </DL> <A NAME="slatewriting"> slate writing,<DL COMPACT><DD> a sleight-of-hand trick in which a slate is written on apparently while tied or sealed face to face with another. </DL> <A NAME="slather"> slather, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD>v.t. to spread or pour lavishly. Ex. to slather butter on toast, to slather cream in coffee. He even smells stylish, slathering on ... cologne so liberally that it lingers on long after he leaves the room (Time). <DD>noun Usually, slathers. a large amount. Ex. They get slathers of money--most a dollar a day, Ben Rogers says (Mark Twain). </DL> <A NAME="slating"> slating, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. slates. Ex. to buy slating for a barn. <DD> 2. the work or business of a slater. </DL> <A NAME="slatted"> slatted, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> furnished with, made of, or covered with slats. Ex. a slatted frame. </DL> <A NAME="slatter"> slatter, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) to spill; slop; scatter carelessly; waste. </DL> <A NAME="slattern"> slattern, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a woman or girl who is dirty, careless, or untidy, as in her dress, her ways, or her housekeeping. (SYN) sloven. <DD>adj. slovenly; untidy. Ex. a slattern wife, slattern manners. </DL> <A NAME="slatternly"> slatternly, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a slattern; slovenly; untidy. Ex. a slatternly girl, in shoes down at heel (Dickens). A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders (Edith Wharton). noun slatternliness. </DL> <A NAME="slaty"> slaty, adjective, slatier, slatiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of, like, or having to do with slate. <DD> 2. slate-colored. Ex. The sun had disappeared under a cloud, and the sea had turned a little slaty (G. Macdonald). </DL> <A NAME="slatyheadedparakeet"> slatyheaded parakeet,<DL COMPACT><DD> a large parakeet found from northwestern India to Thailand and Laos. It is about 15 inches long. </DL> <A NAME="slaughter"> slaughter, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the killing of an animal or animals for food; butchering. Ex. to fatten hogs for slaughter. They [passenger pigeons] were wiped out by one of the most relentless and perverse slaughters in history, exceeding in ruthlessness the better-known butchery of the buffalo (Newsweek). <DD> 2. brutal killing; much or needless killing. Ex. The battle resulted in a frightful slaughter. Today Fourth of July slaughter on the American highways replaces marginal injury from fireworks. (SYN) murder, massacre. <DD>v.t., v.i. 1. to kill an animal or animals for food; butcher. Ex. Millions of cattle are slaughtered in the stockyards. <DD> 2. to kill brutally; massacre. noun slaughterer. </DL> <A NAME="slaughterhouse"> slaughterhouse, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a place where animals are killed for food and other products. (SYN) abattoir. </DL> <A NAME="slaughterman"> slaughterman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a man whose work is to slaughter animals for food. <DD> 2. =executioner. </DL> <A NAME="slaughterous"> slaughterous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> murderous; destructive. Ex. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me (Shakespeare). adv. slaughterously. </DL> <A NAME="slav"> Slav, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a member of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe whose languages are related. Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Moravians, Serbs, and Bulgarians are Slavs. <DD>adj. of or having to do with Slavs; Slavic. </DL> <A NAME="slav"> Slav.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. Slavic. <DD> 2. Slavonian. <DD> 3. Slavonic. </DL> <A NAME="slavdom"> Slavdom, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the group or race of people called Slavs; Slavs collectively. Ex. the civilization of Slavdom. </DL> <A NAME="slave"> slave, noun, verb, slaved, slaving, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a person who is the property of another. Slaves were once bought and sold like horses in the United States. Ex. We'll visit Caliban, my slave (Shakespeare). <DD> 2. (Figurative.) <DD> a. a person who is controlled or ruled by some desire, habit, or influence. Ex. A drunkard is a slave of drink. Give me that man That is not passion's slave (Shakespeare). <DD> b. a person who submits to or follows another. Ex. The head of a party and, consequently ... the slave of a party (Macaulay). <DD> 3. a person who works like a slave. <DD> 4. =slave ant. <DD> 5a. an electronic device that receives and relays radio signals transmitted by a master control, as in loran navigation. <DD> b. a mechanical or electric device, usually a kind of servomechanism, for manipulating objects by remote control, as in handling radioactive materials from outside a closed system. <DD>v.i. to work like a slave; work hard and long. Ex. Many mothers slave for their children. <DD>v.t. to make a slave of; enslave. <DD>adj. 1. of slaves; for slaves; done by slaves. Ex. a slave dealer, a slave hunt, slave labor. <DD> 2. of or having to do with an apparatus or device which duplicates an action or transmits back a signal in the same form as sent. Ex. The signal from the master goes directly to the navigator and also to the slave station, which, after synchronizing properly, retransmits the pulse (James P. Baxter). adj. slavelike. </DL> <A NAME="slaveant"> slave ant,<DL COMPACT><DD> an ant that is captured and forced to work for other ants in a way that suggests slavery. </DL> <A NAME="slavebracelet"> slave bracelet,<DL COMPACT><DD> an identification bracelet worn around the ankle. </DL> <A NAME="slavedriver"> slave driver,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an overseer of slaves. <DD> 2. a person who makes others work very hard; exacting taskmaster. </DL> <A NAME="slavefork"> slave fork,<DL COMPACT><DD> a long, heavy piece of wood with a forked end formerly used in Africa for securing a slave, as when on the march, the forked end being made fast about the neck of the slave. </DL> <A NAME="slaveholder"> slaveholder, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an owner of slaves. </DL> <A NAME="slaveholding"> slaveholding, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. owning slaves. <DD>noun the owning of slaves. </DL> <A HREF="slaveles.dic">NEXT</A>