Word Meanings - SLUSHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. "A dark, drizzling, slushy day." Blackw. Mag.

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• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• BLACKWOOD
  A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• DRIZZLE
  To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser. (more info) Etym:
• BLACKWORK
  Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. Knight.
• DRIZZLY
  Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. "Winter's drizzly reign." Dryden.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• MELTABLE
  Capable of being melted.
• MELTON
  A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.
• SLUSH
  A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation. (more info) 1. Soft mud. 2. A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow. 3. A soft
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• MELT
  See MILT
• MELTER
  , One who, or that which, melts.
• SLUSHY
  Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. "A dark, drizzling, slushy day." Blackw. Mag.
• MELTING
  Liquefaction; the act of causing to melt, or the process of becoming melted. Melting point , the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0º Centigrade or 32º Fahr., that of urea is 132º
• SMELT
  of Smell.
• SMELTERY
  A house or place for smelting.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• SMELTING
  a. & n. from Smelt. Smelting furnace , a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.
• BEDRIZZLE
  To drizzle upon.
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
• REMELT
  To melt again.
• SMELTIE
  A fish, the bib.
• SUPERABOUND
  To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.
• SMELTER
  One who, or that which, smelts.