Slough: alternatives and connections

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

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of Cast

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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of Cover

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

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A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…

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Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

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The act of making a mummy.

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of Slough

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of Slough

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Full of sloughs, miry.

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Full of sloughs, miry.

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To affect with gangrene.

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To affect with gangrene.

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To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.

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A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applie…

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imp. of Melt.

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To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.

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A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…

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Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.

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