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 Slough n.
 1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
    He's here stuck in a slough.   --Milton.
 2. A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
 Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]
 Slough grass Bot., a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.

 slough grass
      n : North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous
          margins and glumes with long awns [syn: prairie
          cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, Spartina pectinmata]