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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.

Crupper :: Crupper (n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards..

Lubrication :: Lubrication (n.) The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.

Garter :: Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain..

Cheslip :: Cheslip (n.) The wood louse.

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

Drill :: Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity..

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..

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

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..

Slue :: Slue (v. i.) To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.

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..

Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc..

Slippy :: Slippy (a.) Slippery.

Slipperwort :: Slipperwort (n.) See Calceolaria.

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