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.
Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.
Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.
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.
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