slime /ˈslaɪm/
爛泥,粘液(vt.)塗上泥(vi.)變粘滑
Slime n.
1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. --Shak.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3. Script. Bitumen. [Archaic]
Slime had they for mortar. --Gen. xi. 3.
4. pl. Mining Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
5. Physiol. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
Slime eel. Zool. See 1st Hag, 4.
Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
Slime v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.] To smear with slime.
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slime
n : any thick messy substance [syn: sludge, goo, gook, guck,
gunk, muck, ooze]
v : cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim"
Slime
(Gen. 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of
Siddim was full of slime pits (14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark
of bulrushes" with slime (Ex. 2:3). (See PITCH.)