Category:Slough

Slough, a.

Defn: slow. [obs.] Chaucer.

Slough Slough, n. Etym: [oe. slogh, slough, as. sloh a hollow place; cf. Mhg. sluch an abyss, gullet, g. schlucken to swallow; also gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, ir. slug to swallow. Gr.

1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer. He's here stuck in a slough. Milton.

2. [pronounced sloo.]

Defn: a wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Note: [in this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.] Slough grass (bot.), a name in the mississippi valley for grasses of The genus muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble will.

Slough Slough, obs.

Defn: imp. of slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

Slough Slough, n. Etym: [oe. slugh, slouh; cf. Mhg. sl the skin of a Serpent, g. schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle.]

1. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some Similar animal.

2. (med.)

Defn: the dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which Separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Slough Slough, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sloughed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sloughing.] (med.)

Defn: to form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from The living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing Ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.

Slough Slough, v. t.

Defn: to cast off; to discard as refuse. New tint the plumage of the birds, and slough decay from grazing Herds. Emerson.