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The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.

Full of sloughs, miry.

An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.

To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

ish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

nk and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

f the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.…

A military pass for a soldier on furlough.

sed only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

Despondency. [Obs.] The slough of despond. Bunyan.

The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.

A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

strong imp. of Laugh. Etym: [Cf. 1st Low and 2d Lough.] Chaucer.

A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; - - also called clough.

Of the nature of plaster. The stone . . . is a poor plastery material. Clough.

To walk on slowly or heavily. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.

That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction. Hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations. Sir W. Scott.

A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

(first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.