Slime

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thick sticky slippery substance.
  • n. Biology A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
  • n. Soft moist earth; mud.
  • n. A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
  • n. Vile or disgusting matter.
  • n. Slang A despicable or repulsive person.
  • v. To smear with slime.
  • v. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  • n. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
  • n. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  • n. = Jew’s slime (bitumen)
  • v. To coat with slime.
  • v. To besmirch or disparage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
  • n. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
  • n. Bitumen.
  • n. Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  • n. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
  • v. To smear with slime.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any soft, ropy, glutinous, or viscous substance.
  • n. Asphalt or bitumen.
  • n. A mucous, viscous, or glutinous substance exuded from the bodies of certain animals, notably fishes and mollusks: as, the slime of a snail. In some cases this slime is the secretion of a special gland, and it may on hardening form a sort of operculum. See slime-gland, clausiliumt and hibernaculum, 3 .
  • n. Figuratively, anything of a clinging and offensive nature; cringing or fawning words or actions.
  • n. In metallurgy, ore reduced to a very fine powder and held in suspension in water, so as to form a kind of thin ore-mud: generally used in the plural.
  • To cover with or as with slime; make slimy.
  • To remove slime from, as fish for canning.
  • To become slimy: acquire slime.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any thick, viscous matter
  • v. cover or stain with slime
  • Verb Form
    slimed    slimes    sliming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bemire    dirty    begrime    colly    grime    soil   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    slimed    sliming    slime mold   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bitumen    mud    ooze    muddy    sludge   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dime    Grime    Lyme    Time    anticrime    chime    climb    crime    dime    grime   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    muck    ooze    mud    sludge    mire    scum    moss    filth    goo    stench