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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..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side..

Landslip :: Landslip (n.) Alt. of Landslid.

Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..

Lungwort :: Lungwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip..

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..

Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..

Glib :: Glib (superl.) Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib..

Snowslip :: Snowslip (n.) A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc..

Languet :: Languet (n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth..

Sliddery :: Sliddery (v. t.) Slippery.

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses..

Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The land which slips down.

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

Parceling :: Parceling (n.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A leash or string by which a dog is held; -- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand..

Label :: Label (n.) A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal..

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping..

Lubricity :: Lubricity (n.) Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune..

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