slime

1. n. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. Source: opted

2. n. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive. Source: opted

3. n. Bitumen. Source: opted

4. n. Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Source: opted

5. n. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. Source: opted

6. v. t. To smear with slime. Source: opted

7. n. any thick, viscous matter Source: wordnet

8. v. cover or stain with slime Source: wordnet

9. 1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive. 3. (Script.) Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3. 4. pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce. 5. (Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. Goldsmith. Slime eel. (Zoöl.) See 1st Hag, 4. -- Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen. To smear with slime. Tennyson. Source: webster

10. Bitumen. [Archaic]Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3. Source: adambom

11. v:9/n:91 v. cover or stain with slime Source: ecdict

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