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Webster 1913 Edition

Slime

Slime

(slīm)
,
Noun.
[OE.
slim
, AS.
slīm
; akin to D.
slijm
, G.
schleim
, MHG.
slīmen
to make smooth, Icel.
slīm
slime, Dan.
sliim
; cf. L.
limare
to file, polish,
levis
smooth, Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK]; or cf. L.
limus
mud.]
1.
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the
slime
and ooze scatters his grain.
Shakespeare
2.
Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3.
(Script.)
Bitumen.
[Archaic]
Slime
had they for mortar.
Gen. xi. 3.
4.
pl.
(Mining)
Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
Pryce.
5.
(Physiol.)
A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
Goldsmith.
Slime eel
.
(Zool.)
See 1st
Hag
, 4.
–
Slime pit
,
a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.

Slime

(slīm)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Slimed
(slīmd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Sliming
.]
To smear with slime.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Slime

SLIME

,
Noun.
[L. limus.] Soft moist earth having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. The had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. Gen 11.

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