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A word of seven syllables.

Having six syllables. Emerson.

A word of six syllables.

; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also syllabub.]

The slack part of a sail. Slab line (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. Totten.

Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank. [Colloq. U. S.]

To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle. He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. Arbuthnot.

One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot.

Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

Quality of being slabby.

Adapted for forming slabs, or for dressing flat surfaces. Slabbing machine, a milling machine.

Thick; viscous. They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff. Selden.

Capable of being spelt. Carlyle.

Capable of being spoiled.

A syllabary.

A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. S. W. Williams.

Syllable. [R.] B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.

In a syllabic manner.

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.