Word Meanings - SLINGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who slings, or uses a sling.

Related words: (words related to SLINGER)

• SLOW
  A moth. Rom. of R.
• SLAPE
  Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale.
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• SLAW; SLAWEN
  p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi.
• SLIMNESS
  The quality or state of being slim.
• SLIVE
  To cut; to split; to separate. Holland.
• SLEDDING
  1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
• SLOWBACK
  A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
• SLUGS
  Half-roasted ore.
• SLAUGHTER
  1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak. 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• SLINK
  1. Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf. 2. Thin; lean.
• SLAVIC
  Slavonic. -- n.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• SLUGABED
  One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. "Fie, you slugabed!" Shak.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• SLUMP
  The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• SCINTILLOUSLY
  In a scintillant manner.
• GRISLY
  Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
• TUSSLE
  To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• ROSLAND
  heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
• CROSSLY
  Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
• BESLUBBER
  To beslobber.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• INCREDULOUSLY
  In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• CHISLEY
  Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. Gardner.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE