Slew: alternatives and connections

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.…

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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

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The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.

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A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

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The glede or kite.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.

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To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

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To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

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To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

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The quantity of bread baked at one time.

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Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

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A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.

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That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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Mass; church service.

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Much; great.

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The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

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A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an e…

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Much.

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The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

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A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundanc…

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A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

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imp. & p. p. of Reave.

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Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

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The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

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A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a poi…

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To stray; to wander; to rope.

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To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.

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Woad.

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