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61Slabbier — Slabby Slab by, a. [Compar. {Slabbier}; superl. {Slabbiest}.] [See {Slab}, a.] 1. Thick; viscous. [1913 Webster] They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. Selden. [1913 Webster] 2. Sloppy; slimy; miry. See {Sloppy}. Gay.… …
62Slabbiest — Slabby Slab by, a. [Compar. {Slabbier}; superl. {Slabbiest}.] [See {Slab}, a.] 1. Thick; viscous. [1913 Webster] They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. Selden. [1913 Webster] 2. Sloppy; slimy; miry. See {Sloppy}. Gay.… …
63Slabby — Slab by, a. [Compar. {Slabbier}; superl. {Slabbiest}.] [See {Slab}, a.] 1. Thick; viscous. [1913 Webster] They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. Selden. [1913 Webster] 2. Sloppy; slimy; miry. See {Sloppy}. Gay. [1913… …
64Sloughy — Slough y, a. Full of sloughs, miry. [1913 Webster] …
65Sludy — Slud y, a. Miry; slushy. [1913 Webster] …
66Slump — Slump, n. 1. A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster] 2. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] 3. A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a… …
67Soil — Soil, n. [OF. soil, souil, F. souille, from OF. soillier, F. souiller. See {Soil} to make dirty.] A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.… …
68Soil — Soil, n. [See {Soil} to make dirty, {Soil} a miry place.] That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain. [1913 Webster] A lady s honor . . . will not bear a soil. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …
69To take soil — Soil Soil, n. [OF. soil, souil, F. souille, from OF. soillier, F. souiller. See {Soil} to make dirty.] A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as… …
70quagmire — noun Date: circa 1580 1. soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot 2. a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position ; predicament …