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1,264 words match “SLE”

MISLE v. 2 definitions
To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
MISLEAD v.
ad astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton.
MISLEADER n.
One who leads into error.
MISLEADING a.
Leading astray; delusive.
MISLEARN v.
To learn wrongly.
MISLED p.
of Mislead.
MISLEN n.
See Maslin.
MISLETOE n.
See Mistletoe.
MOSLEM n. 2 definitions
A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.] "Heaps of slaughtered Moslem." Macaulay. They piled the ground with Moslem slain. Halleck.
MOUSLE v.
To sport with roughly; to rumple. [Written also mouzle.] [Obs.] Wycherley.
NESSLERIZE v.
lution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide and potassium hydroxide, which is called Nessler's solution or Nessler's test, and is used to detect the presence of ammonia.
NOSLE n.
Nozzle. [Obs.]
NOURSLE v.
To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. Spenser.
NOUSEL; NOUSLE v.
To insnare; to entrap. [Obs.] Johnson.
OUTSLEEP v.
To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
OVERSLEEP v. 2 definitions
To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.
PAGODA SLEEVE n.
A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.
PARSLEY n.
vided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley. -- Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves re…
PASSLESS a.
Having no pass; impassable. Cowley.
PUSLEY n.
Purslane. [Colloq. U. S]
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