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 slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
v. t.
To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
n.
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
n.
Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.
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.
n.
The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.
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That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
n.
The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
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A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
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.
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.
n.
The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Slough
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Slow.
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Full of sloughs, miry.
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Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
v. t.
To cast off; to discard as refuse.
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