Category:Slime

Slime, n. Etym: [oe. slim, as. slim; akin to d. slijm, g. schleim, Mhg. slimen to make smooth, icel. slim slime, dan. sliim; cf. L. Limare to file, polish, levis smooth, gr. limus mud.]

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. Shak.

2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that Is moist, soft, and adhesive.

3. (script.)

Defn: bitumen. [archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

4. pl. (mining)

Defn: mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory Dressing. Pryce.

5. (physiol.)

Defn: a mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain Animals. Goldsmith. Slime eel. (zoöl.) See 1st hag, 4. -- slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.

Slime Slime, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.]

Defn: to smear with slime. Tennyson.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Slime - (Genesis 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits (Genesis 14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark of bulrushes" with slime (Exodus 2:3). (See PITCH.)