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noun

Slough n.

A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. "He's here stuck in a slough."

A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river. Note: (In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.)

Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; called also drop seed, and nimble Will.

Slough n.

The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

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

verb

Slough v. t. To cast off; to discard as refuse. "New tint the plumage of the birds, And slough decay from grazing herds."

Slough v. i. (past & past part. sloughed; pres. part. sloughing) (Med.) 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 v. obs. Imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

adjective

Slough adj. Slow. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Slough'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slough" Quotes from Famous Books

... zenith through the immense Sink to the low expedients of an hour, And barter soul for all the slough of sense,— ...

— Poems • Denis Florence MacCarthy

... apparently condemned myself by showing how anxious I was to get it. And you know I could not have explained all this before him and you. You would have thrown up the stall in disgust." Would that he had! That was Mark's wish now,—his futile wish. In what a slough of despond had he come to wallow in consequence of his folly on that night at Gatherum Castle! He had then done a silly thing, and was he now to rue it by almost total ruin? He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was ...

— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope

... led him into a hundred awkward situations. Twice was the Dominie chased by a cross-grained cow, once he fell into the brook crossing at the stepping-stones, and another time was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend, in attempting to gather a water-lily for the young Laird. It was the opinion of the village matrons who relieved Sampson on the latter occasion, "that the Laird might as weel trust the care o' his bairn to a potato bogle"; but the good Dominie bore all his disasters ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... they are strong enough to protect themselves, feeding in the mean time upon fish and flesh of every description. In the water they move with agility, but on land their long bodies and short legs prevent rapid motion. They migrate during droughts from one slough or bayou to another, crossing the intervening upland. When discovered on these journeys by man, the alligator feigns death, or at least appears to be in an unconscious state; but if an antagonist approach within reach of that terrible tail, ...

— Four Months in a Sneak-Box • Nathaniel H. Bishop

... your moss-traversing spunkies [bog-, goblins] Decoy the wight that late an' drunk is: The bleezin, curst, mischievous monkies Delude his eyes, Till in some miry slough he sunk is, ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

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