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Slime   /slaɪm/   Listen
noun
Slime  n.  
1.
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. "As it (Nilus) ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain."
2.
Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3.
(Script.) Bitumen. (Archaic) "Slime had they for mortar."
4.
pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
5.
(Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
Slime eel. (Zool.) See 1st Hag, 4.
Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.


verb
Slime  v. t.  (past & past part. slimed; pres. part. sliming)  To smear with slime.





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"Slime" Quotes from Famous Books



... stars sung together for joy, I learned, had an amazed creation witnessed such superhuman bravery as that displayed by the American navy in the Samoa cyclone. Till earth rotted in the phosphorescent star-and-stripe slime of a decayed universe, that god-like gallantry would not be forgotten. I grieve that I cannot give the exact words. My attempt at reproducing their spirit is pale and inadequate. I sat bewildered ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling
... a fish weighing from two to two and a half pounds cleaned by the fishmonger; rub it well with a handful of salt, to remove the slime peculiar to this fish, wash it well, and wipe it with a clean, dry cloth; stuff it with the following forcemeat. Put four ounces of stale bread to soak in sufficient luke-warm water to cover it; meantime fry one ounce of chopped onion in ...
— The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery • Juliet Corson
... one between, runnin' up to the snows! Think y'r good for climbin' over this windfall while A carry this little puss on m' shoulder? Steer for the snow ahead! Don't mind my laggin' back! Go on ahead an' wait for us! A'm goin' t' see if A can't mine down to some gold beneath th' slime o' th' slums! It's not in the course o' nature that any child should be blind t' this world, Miss Eleanor, if A can open th' doors for her! Go ahead; an' if y' find a good sittin' down place, just rest quiet an' wait for us an' don't worry if we're long comin'! If A can't make her love God's ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... up their conference. Afterward there was no chateau, but only a rubble of bricks banked up with sandbags and deep mine-craters filled with stinking water slopping over from the Bellewarde Lake and low-lying pools. Bodies, and bits of bodies, and clots of blood, and green metallic-looking slime, made by explosive gases, were floating on the surface of that water below the crater banks when I first passed that way, and so it was always. Our men lived there and died there within a few yards of the enemy, crouched below the sand-bags and burrowed in the sides of the crater. Lice crawled ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... "And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly [and burn them to a burning]. And they had brick for stone, and slime ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan


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