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f circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.

One who fishes for scallops.

Fishing for scallops.

See Scallop.

Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidæ, or Snipe family.

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.

Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered. [Prov. Eng.]

A boat. [She] thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser.

Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.

ty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. Slop basin, or Slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. -- Slop molding (Brickmaking), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the dr…

und whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).

State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.

Obliquely. [Obs.] Carew.

the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.

The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.

A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.