Word Meanings - SLIPPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. 2. Not affording firm ground for confidence;
Additional info about word: SLIPPERY
1. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. 2. Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. The slippery tops of human state. Cowley. 3. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. The slippery god will try to loose his hold. Dryden. 4. Liable to slip; not standing firm. Shak. 5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. "The slippery state of kings." Denham. 6. Uncertain in effect. L'Estrange. 7. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. Shak. Slippery elm. An American tree with a mucilagenous and slightly aromatic inner bark which is sometimes used medicinally; also, the inner bark itself. A malvaceous shrub ; -- so called on the Pacific coast.
Related words: (words related to SLIPPERY)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - CONFIDENCE
1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - QUALITY
1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - CAUSTICILY
1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - MALLOWWORT
Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.