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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;

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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.

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  • 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
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • 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.
  • 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 .
  • 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
  • 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.

 

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