Word Meanings - SLICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sleek; smooth. "Both slick and dainty." Chapman.

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• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• SMOOTH
  Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
• SLICKENS
  The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• DAINTY
  deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. 1. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. I ne told no deyntee of her love. Chaucer. 2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. That precious nectar
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• SLICKER
  That which makes smooth or sleek. Specifically: A kind of burnisher for leather. A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• SLICK
  A wide paring chisel.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• SLICKING
  Narrow veins of ore. (more info) 1. The act or process of smoothing. 2. pl.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• SLICKNESS
  The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.
• SLEEKY
  1. Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance. Thomson. 2. Fawning and deceitful; sly.
• SLICKENSIDES
  1. The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another. 2. A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.
• SLEEKLY
  In a sleek manner; smoothly.
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• SMOOTH-TONGUED
  Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
• SMOOTHBORE
  Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.
• SLEEK
  to Icel. slikr, and OE. sliken to glide, slide, G. schleichen, OHG. 1. Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. Chaucer. So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make. Dryden. 2. Not rough or harsh. Those rugged names