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Spoilable :: Spoil (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal..

Swig :: Swig (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off..

Slough :: Slough () imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew..

Slue :: Slue (n.) A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2..

Welter :: Welter (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough..

Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar..

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax..

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Full of sloughs, miry..

Sloughing :: Sloughing (n.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis..

Slough :: Slough (n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal..

Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..

Sloughed :: Sloughed (imp. & p. p.) of Sloug.

Sloughy :: Sloughy (a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh..

Slough :: Slough (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly..

Slough :: Slough (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Sphacelus :: Sphacelus (n.) Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.

Slough :: Slough (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Slough :: Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Slough :: Slough (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

Slough :: Slough (a.) Slow.

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