What is the meaning of SLOUGH. Phrases containing SLOUGH
See meanings and uses of SLOUGH!Slangs & AI meanings
To be away from school without permission. From slough - 'to shed'.
Slough is slang for imprison.
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n.
A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
v. t.
To cast off; to discard as refuse.
a.
Full of sloughs, miry.
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n.
Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.
n.
A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
n.
The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
n.
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
a.
Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
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Slow.
n.
The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
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n.
A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
n.
The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
n.
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
n.
That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
n.
A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
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