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Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

Slipknot :: Slipknot (n.) knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.

Calk :: Calk (n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin..

Glissette :: Glissette (n.) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant..

Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..

Primrose :: Primrose (a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles..

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..

Slip :: Slip (n.) Potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handles and other applied parts..

Oxlip :: Oxlip (n.) The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior)..

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

Slip :: Slip (n.) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A particular quantity of yarn.

Slabbery :: Slabbery (a.) Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy..

Dagon :: Dagon (n.) A slip or piece.

Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.

Bo Tree :: Bo tree () The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha..

Surged :: Surge (v. i.) To slip along a windlass.

Slipshod :: Slipshod (a.) Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.

Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.

Sandaliform :: Sandaliform (a.) Shaped like a sandal or slipper.

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