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; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.

ubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in "slashes."

Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.

A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]

An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. [Obs.] Wright.

Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook. Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook. Pope.

Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.

Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.

One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

To slash; to hack; to slice. [Obs.] Rushing of helms and riving plates asunder. Spenser.

Slashed or striped in patterns. [Obs.] "Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes." Shak.

A cut; as, slish and slash. [Colloq.] Shak.

Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.

both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.