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adv. In an acrimonious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adulterous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Profitably; with advantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ele, F. aile, wing, wing of a building, L. ala, contr. fr. axilla. ] (Arch.) (a) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall. (b) Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle. (c) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an aisle or aisles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without an aisle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With alacrity; briskly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ambitious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. American sign language. [ An acronym which is spelled and pronounced as a simple word ]
Syn. -- American sign language [ PJC ]

adv. In an amorous manner; fondly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Like an amphibious being. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an anomalous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an anonymous manner; without a name. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to slavery. -- n. Opposition to slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as American sign language, the sign language used in the US.
Syn. -- American sign language, AMESLAN [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. [ AS. āslacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. Slake. ] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + slant. ] Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The shaft ] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. In a slanting direction over; athwart. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. [ Pref. a- + sleep. ] 1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1 Thess. iv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Numbed, and, usually, tingling. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + slope. ] Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. “Set them not upright, but aslope.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + slug to move slowly. ] Sluggishly. [ Obs. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an autogenous manner; spontaneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Eagerly; greedily. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. Backslid p. p. Backslidden Backslid; p. pr. & vb. n. Backsliding. ] [ Back, adv. + slide. ] To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who backslides. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a heelless slipper specifically designed to be worn by ballet dancers while dancing. [ PJC ]

adv. In a barbarous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To beslobber. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enslave. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beslavered p. pr. & vb. n. Beslavering. ] To defile with slaver; to beslobber. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To daub with slime; to soil. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To beslobber. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bifarious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wide sleeve, once worn by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blameless manner. [ 1913 Webster ]