Definition of slip

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Slip (n.) To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide..

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Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..
Slip :: Slip (n.) An outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip..
Slip :: Slip (n.) A fish, the sole..
Slip :: Slip (n.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
Cowslipped :: Cowslipped (a.) Adorned with cowslips.
Lubrication :: Lubrication (n.) The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Macule :: Macule (n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..
Slipping :: Slipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sli.
Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
Slip :: Slip (n.) Any covering easily slipped on.
Snakehead :: Snakehead (n.) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car..
Dock :: Dock (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock..
Tonophant :: Tonophant (n.) A modification of the kaleidophon, for showing composition of acoustic vibrations. It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjystable by a screw socket..
Slipcoat Cheese :: Slipcoat cheese () A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white..
Isthmus :: Isthmus (n.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc..
Butterfish :: Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand..
Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.
Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To omit; to loose by negligence.
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