An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 771
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 771
_To_ ~Slairt~ _about_, to go about sluggishly, S. B.
Teut. _sloordigh_, sordidus.
_To_ SLAISTER, SLYSTER, _v. n._
1. To do any thing in an awkward and dirty way, S.
_Antiquary._
2. To work in any thing moist or unctuous, S.
3. To move clumsily through a miry road, S.
Su. G. _slask-a_, humorem sordidum effundere.
_To_ ~Slaister~, _v. a._ To bedaub, S.
_Ferguson._
~Slaister~, ~Slyster~, ~Slaistery~, _s._ A heterogeneous ma.s.s, S.
_Ferguson._
SLAIT, _pret._ Slitted, cut.
_Evergreen._
_To_ SLAIT, _v. a._
1. To level.
Su. G. _slaet-a_, id.
2. To depreciate, W. Loth.
3. To abuse grossly, to maltreat.
_Guthrie._
4. To wipe.
_Ritson._
SLAIt.i.t, _part. pa._ Exhausted with fatigue.
_Balnevis._
Teut. _slete_, tritus, _slet-en_, atterere.
SLAK, SLACK, SLAKE, _s._
1. An opening in the higher part of a hill or mountain, where it becomes less steep, and forms a sort of pa.s.s, S.
_Barbour._
2. A gap or narrow pa.s.s between two hills or mountains.
_Wyntown._
3. _The slack of the ha.s.s_, the narrowest part of the throat, Loth.
Su. G. _slak_, remissus; also, the hollow of the side.
SLAKE, SLAIK, SLEEGH, SLOKE, _s._
1. The oozy vegetable substance in the bed of rivers, S. B. _slauk._
_Stat. Acc._
2. Navel laver, S. B.
_Lightfoot._
Su. G. _slak_, laxus; as being soft and flaccid.
SLAKE, _s._ A blow on the chops.
_Kelly._
A. S. _slaege_, Su. G. Belg. _slag_, ictus.
_To_ SLAIK, _v. n._ To slacken.
_Wallace._
SLAM, SLAMMACH, _s._ A share of any thing acquired by forcible or artful means, S. B.
Su. G. _slam-a_, coacervare; _slem_, craft.
_To_ ~Slammach~, _v. a._ To seize.