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

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..

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

Slip :: Slip (n.) To slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip..

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Palsywort :: Palsywort (n.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers.

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

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

Slipper :: Slipper (a.) Slippery.

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..

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

Paigle :: Paigle (n.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose..

Roll :: Roll (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal..

Marsh Marigold :: Marsh marigold () A perennial plant of the genus Caltha (C. palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip..

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

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

Slippage :: Slippage (n.) The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping..

Slape :: Slape (a.) Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.

Shy :: Shy (v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper..

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..

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