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Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak.

Putrefied. [Obs.] What vermin bred of putrifacted slime. Marston.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy. Gay.

Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]

Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant. "A slender, choleric man." Chaucer. She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore. Milton.

See Slime, 4. Sludge hole, the hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.

Same as Slimes.

Filth; abomination. [Obs.] To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston.

Thin and long; slim; slender. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Like spittle; slimy. [Obs.]

ne; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.

A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places. [R.] Woodward.

water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.]