Definition of sly

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Sly (v. t.) Light or delicate; slight; thin.

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Concord :: Concord (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
Conjugate :: Conjugate (a.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc..
Copal :: Copal () A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes..
Thunderbird :: Thunderbird (n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher..
Gallop :: Gallop (v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination..
Scandalously :: Scandalously (adv.) With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong.
Busybody :: Busybody (n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
Quaff :: Quaff (v. t.) To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.
Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke
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Soak :: Soak (v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
Lacteously :: Lacteously (adv.) In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.
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