Slipping: alternatives and connections

A thrust or pass; a lunge.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to…

The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is…

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to c…

The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.

A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.

To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evad…

To sail; to float.

To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of su…

The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

A male cat; a tomcat.

The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet…

A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.

A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmu…