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Shaped like a sandal or slipper.

A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.

A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. [Obs.] Crabb.

A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.] Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. Milton.

The slips or plates of metal out of which circular balnks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.

A thin, solid substance, esp. a thin shoe or slipper.

der up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

wed through one part, as of a machine, tightly upon another part, to prevent the one from slipping upon the other. -- Set speech, a speech carefully prepared before it is delivered in public; a formal or methodical speech.

used in the various senses of the transitive verb. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak. Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat. Sir W. Scott.

closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids. (b) (Bot.) The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip. -- Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. Hansard.

.), a triangular sail carried on a boat's mast; -- so called from its shape. -- Shoulder slip, dislocation of the shoulder, or of the humerous. Swift. -- Shoulder strap, a strap worn on or over the shoulder. Specifically (Mil. & Naval), a narrow strap worn on the shoulder of a commissioned officer, indicating, by a s…

is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place.

To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper. T. Hughes.

Like, or covered with, slabber or slab; slippery; sloppy.

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

Slippery. [Obs.] Holland.

Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.

To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.