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Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.

Schist :: Schist (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar..

Slabby :: Slabby (a.) Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy.

Slabbing :: Slabbing (a.) Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces..

Slabber :: Slabber (n.) Spittle; saliva; slaver.

Slab :: Slab (n.) The wryneck.

Phonolite :: Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone..

Pavior :: Pavior (n.) A brick or slab used for paving.

Slatt :: Slatt (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

Slabby :: Slabby (a.) Thick; viscous.

Plaque :: Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch..

Muller :: Muller (n.) A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material..

Table :: Table (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab..

Slobber :: Slobber (n.) See Slabber.

Gneiss :: Gneiss (n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss..

Slabber :: Slabber (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking..

Driveler :: Driveler (n.) A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

Slab :: Slab (n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure..

Slobber :: Slobber (v. t. & i.) See Slabber.

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