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imp. of Slay.

Somewhat drunk. [Slang]

Sloth; idleness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ing to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.

Before the ere long. A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. Spenser. The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. Milton.

one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country. I slew my best lover for the good of Rome. Shak.

wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. "You slew great number of his people." Shak.

A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

to stand upon ceremony. (d) To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] "So I stood upon him, and slew him." 2 Sam. i. 10. -- To stand with, to be consistent with. "It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally." Sir J. Davies.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree. Acts x. 39.

another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote. Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David. 1 Chron. x. 14. God will make these evils the occasion of a greater good, by turning them to advantage in this world. Tillotson. When the passage is open, land will be turned most to ca…