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nd violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly. [Colloq.] "The railroad cars drive slap into the city." Thackeray.

With a slap; all at once; slap. [Colloq.] Prior.

Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. [Prov. Eng.] Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale. [Prov. Eng.]

A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake. [Local, U.S.]

One who, or that which, slaps.

Very large; monstrous; big. [Slang.]

Same as Infralapsarian.

Infralapsarianism.

Sublapsarian. Johnson.

salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian.

The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.

Supralapsarian.

A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, or Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.

arp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. "Thunderclaps that make them quake." Spenser. When suddenly the thunderclap was heard. Dryden.

To unfold. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.

One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapük.

n side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

on feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.