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Slander; detraction; calumny. [Obs.] Barrow.

-- one piece is more or less passable than another. L'Estrange. Could they have made this slander passable. Collier.

, I am taught; in English, she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is assailed by slander.

To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind. Whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge.

ther from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

ond hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander. "To whom I will retail my conquest won." Shak. He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails. Shak.

ous or wicked; devilish; infernal. "Satanic strength." "Satanic host." Milton. Detest the slander which, with a Satanic smile, exults over the character it has ruined. Dr. T. Dwight. -- Sa*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sa*tan"ic*al*ness, n.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.

To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander. To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order. Sir W. Scott.

Slander. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. [Obs.] "[Slander] sneaks its head." Wake.

Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.

To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite. "Slander stings the brave." Pope.

To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander. With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame. Massinger.

A detractor; a slanderer. [Obs.] Shak.

With that or this; therewith; at the same time. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. Shak. And therewithal one came and seized on her, And Enid started waking. Tennyson.

Slanderous. [R.] Entick.

One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall.

In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.

ving the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue. "This viperous slander." Shak. -- Vi"per*ous*ly, adv.