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Slipskin :: Slipskin (a.) Evasive.

Slipthrift :: Slipthrift (n.) A spendthrift.

Slip-on :: Slip-on (n.) A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak.

Calk :: Calk (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox..

Calceiform :: Calceiform (a.) Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate..

Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To omit; to loose by negligence.

Slip :: Slip (n.) A child's pinafore.

Bilk :: Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor..

Hornbook :: Hornbook (n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..

Scaleboard :: Scaleboard (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.

Fleet :: Fleet (n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.

Slipperness :: Slipperness (n.) Slipperiness.

Elm :: Elm (n.) A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva..

Bewit :: Bewit (n.) A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

Slipes :: Slipes (v.) Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

Slip :: Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..

Slip :: Slip (n.) Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

Slip :: Slip (n.) An outside covering or case; as, a pillow slip..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip..

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