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A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.

The period of a transitory breeze.

Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.

A dark bluish gray color.

Of a dark gray, like slate.

One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.

The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater.

A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry. Knight.

To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. "The slattern air." Gay.

The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.

A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [Obs.] Gayton.

Slats, collectively.

Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture. Slaty cleavage (Min.), cleavage, as of rocks, into thin leaves or plates, like those of slate; -- applied especially to those cases in which…

To make or enact a law or laws. Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them. Bp. Watson (1805).

The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Lyttelton.

g the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume.

In a legislative manner.

A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips.