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ng piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib. Slipper animalcule (Zoöl.), a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. -- Slipper flower.(Bot.) Slipperwort. -- Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell (Zoöl.), a boat shell.

Wearing slippers. Shak.

In a slippery manner.

The quality of being slippery.

Slipperiness. [Obs.]

See Calceolaria.

ly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.

Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

A private or obscure road. "Through slippery byroads" Swift.

Shaped like a plipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plant, biought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.

A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.

Declivity; descent; slope. On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. Du Bartas (Trans. ).

he English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva. Elm beetle (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles (esp. Galeruca calmariensis), which feed on the leaves of the elm. -- Elm borer (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles of which the larvæ bo…

Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]

Slippery; changeable. [Obs.] My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't. Marston.

Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.] Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.