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rty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. Slop basin, or Slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. -- Slop molding (Brickmaking), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the d…

ound whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).

State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.

Obliquely. [Obs.] Carew.

the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.

The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.

A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.

The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. No slopwork ever dropped from his [Carlyle's] pen. Froude.

Sloping; inclined.

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell.

An outer garment, or slop. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.