give you the slip. Locke. 6. A long narrow piece. Between thefe eaftern an weffern mountains lies a flip of lower ground. Addison.

SLINK, z. from the verb.; the young of a beaft brought forth before the time; a catling. Ab. (1.) *To SLINK. v. n. preter. slunk. [slingan, Saxon, to creep. To freak; to steal out of the way. We will sink away in fupper time. Shak. His familiars from his buried fortunes Slink away. Shak. Timon of Athens. He, after Eve feduc'd, unminded slunk Into the wood faft by.

Milton. When brafs and pewter hap to ftray, And linen slinks out of the way. Hudibras. She slunk into a corner, where the lay trembling. L'Etrange. He would pinch the children in the dark, and then slink into a corner, as if nobody had done it. Arbuth. Jahn Bull.

A weafel once made fhift to slink In at a corn-loft through a chink. Pepe. -We have a suspicious, fearful, and constrained countenance, often turning back, and slinking through narrow lanes. Swift.

(2.) *To SLINK. v. a. To caft; to mifcarry of. A low word.-To prevent a mare's slinking ber foal, in fnowy weather keep her where the may have good fpring water to drink. Mortimer. *SLIP. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. The act of slipping; falfe ftep. 2. Errour; miftake; fault. Such wanton wild and ufual slips As are moft known to youth. Of the promife there made our mafter hath failed us, by slip of memory. Wotton.-This religious affection would be the most enormous sup the could commit. More.-One cafual slip is enough to weigh down the faithful service of a long life. L'Efrange

Shak.

Dryden.

If th' impoftor's pen have made a slip, That fhews it counterfeit. -A very eafy ship I have made. Locke. Any little slip is more confpicuous and obfervable in a good man's conduct than in another's. Addison. 3. A twig torn from the main ftork.-By heat of contention they are divided into many slips. Hooker. -The slips of their vines have been brought into Spain. Abb.

A native slip to us from foreign feeds. Shak. Thy mother took into her blameful bed Some itera untutor'd churl, and noble stock Was graft with crab-tree slip, whofe fruit thou art. Shakep. -Setting feeds or slips of violets in the earth. Bacon.

So have I feen fome tender slip, Saved with care from Winter's nip. Milton. -They are propagated not only by the feed, but fome by slips. Roy. 4. A leafh or ftring in which a dog is held, from its being fo made as to flip or become loofe by relaxation of the hand.--

I fee you ftand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. Shak. Henry V. -He who only lets loofe a greyhound cut of the slip, is faid to hound him at the hare. Bramhall. 5. An escape; a defertion. I know not whether to give the slip be not originally taken from a dog, that runs and leaves the ftring or slip in the leader's hand.

The more fhame for her goodyship, To give fo near a friend the slip. Hudibras. -The daw did not like his companion, and gave him the slip. L'Estrange. Their explications will

(1.) * To SLIP. v. n. [slipan, Saxon; slippen, Dutch.] 1. To fide; not to tread firm. He who views that nice feparation between himself and the devouring deep, so that, if he should sip, he fees his grave gaping under him, furely must take every step with caution. South-A skilful dancer on the ropes slips willingly, and makes a feming ftumble, that you may think him in great hazard. Dryden.—

After fome diftinguish'd leap

He drops his pole, and feems to slip.

Prior.

2. To fide; to glide.-Oh Ladon! rather fide than run by her, left thou thouldft make her legs -ship from her. Sidney.-They trim their feathers, which makes them oily and flippery, that the water may slip off them. Mortimer. 3. To move or fly out of place. Upon the leaft walking on it, the bone flips out again. Wifemnr. 4. To sneak; to flnkFrom her moft beaftly company

-

I'gan refrain, in mind to slip away. Spenfer. When Judas faw that his hoft slipt away he was fore troubled. 1 Mac. ix. ༡.

Dryd. Prior.

Pa slip down out of my lodging. Thus one tradefiman slips away. 5. To glide; to pafs unexpectedly or imperceptibly.-The banks of either fide feeming arms of the loving earth, that fain would embrace it, and the river a wanton nymph, which still would slip from it. Sidney-The bletting of the Lord fhall slip from thee. Taylor.Slipping from thy mother's eye. Milton. Thrice the flitting thadow fipo'daway. Dryd. Through my arms he fipt, and vanish'd.

Dryden. When a corn slips out of their paws, they take hold of it again. Addifon.-Wife men retrieve every mifpent hour which has shipped from them. Rogers.-Two years which have flipped by fince. Swift. 6. To fall into fault or errour.If he had been as you

And you as he, you would have slipt like him.

Shak. -One slippeth in his fpeech. Eccluf.-A man of understanding knoweth when he slippeth. Eccluf. xxi. 7. 7. To creep by overlight.-Some mistakes may have slipt into it. Pope. 8. To efcape; to fall away out of memory.-If they be let slip for the prefent, what good foever they contain is loft. Hooker.-Though the demonftration may have slipt out of his memory, he builds upon the truth. Addison. The mind is ready to let many of them slip, unless fome pains taken to fix them. Watts.

(2.) To SLIP. v. a. 1. To convey fecretly.He tried to slip a powder into her drink. Arbuth 2. To lofe by negligence.Slip no advantage That may fecure you.

Ben Jonson's Cat. Let us not slip th' occafion. Milton. -One ill man may not slip the occafion. L'Etr. To slip the market, is great imprudence. Colliär. -For watching occafions to correct others, and not to slip any opportunity of fhewing their talents, fcholars are most blamed. Locke. Thus far my author has slipt Lis firft defign. Atterb

3.

To

To part twigs from the main body by laceration. -The branches alf may be flipped and planted. Mortimer. 4. To efcape from; to leave flily.Lucenti slipn'd me like his grey hound. Shak. 1. To let loose.

Th's patient greyhound, sipt from far. Degd. •Throw off any thing that holds ore.-My hone amped his bridle. Swift. 8. To paffover Beg gently-With what reafon can that about 12 gences be sipped over? Atterbury.

*SLIPBOARD. n. f. [ship and board.] A board Blog in grower. ventured to draw back the pboard on the roof. Gulliver.

SLIPKNOT, #. /. [slip and knot.) A bowknot; akt eality untied.-They faften the reft upon the une-rowl with a shipknot. Moxon.-In large Wounds a fi ge knot firit; and then a slipknot. Sharp.

(14* SLIPPER. adj. [sliphur, Sax.] Slippery; Obfolete. Perhaps never in ule but

With feorn or pity on the slipp'ry state
Of kings.
Denham's Saphy.

6. Not certain in its effect.-One fure rick is better than a hundred slippery ones. L'Etrange. 7. [Lubrique, French.] Not chafte.-

*

My wife is slippery. Shak. Winter's Tale.SLIPPY. adj. [from lip.] Slippery easily fliding. A barbarous provincial word. The white of an egg is ropy, slippy, and nutritious. Floper.

* SLIPSHOD. adj. Isip and shod] Having the fhoes not pulled up at the heels, but barely flipped on.

The slipshad 'prentice from his master's door Had par'd the dirt. Swift.

SLIPSHOE. See SLIPPER, N° 2.

SLIPSLOP. n. f. bad liquor. A low word form- . ed by reduplication of so.

SLIRE, a town of Norway, in the province of Chriftiania; 68 miles NNW. of Chriftiania. * SLISH. n. f. A low word formed by reduplicating of Aush.

Here's faip and nip, and fi and slash. Shak. SLISHCARROW, mountains of Ireland, in the county of Sligo; 4 miles SE. of Sligo.

* SLIT. n. f. [stit, Saxon.] A long cut, or nar row opening.-In the brick conduit there is a window, and in the round houfe a slit or rift. Bacon.

Juft in that place a narrow slit we make. Dryden. By looking through a sit or oblong hole, which was narrower than the pupil of my eyes.—I could fee the circles much diftincter.

*To SLIT. v. a. pret. and part. slit and slitted.

pery manner.

* SLIPPERINESS. n. s. [from slippery] 1. State quality of being flippery; fmoothness; glib-We do not only fall by the slipperinefs of sur tongue. Gov. of the Tongue. The fchirrus Lay be diftinguifhed by its want of inflammation in the skin, its fmoothness and slipperinefs. Sharp. 2 Uncertainty; want of firm footing.

SLIPPERY. adj. [slipur, Saxon : sliperig, Swe. 1. Smooth; glib.-They trim their feahers, which makes them oily and slippery.-Oily bances only lubricate and make the bowels slip pery. Arbuthnot. 2. Not affording firm footing.As hard to leave as keep; whofe top to climb, Is certain falling; or fo slipp'ry that The fear's as bad as falling.

Shak. Cymb. Hs promise to truft to as slipp'ry as ice. Tuff. -Their way thall be as slippery ways. Jer. xxii. The slipp'ry tops of human state. Cowley. -The higher they are raised, the more slippery is ther landing. L'Eftrange.

The highest hill is the moft slipp'ry. Denham. Who can tread fure on the smooth slippery way?

3. Hard to hold; hard to keep.

Dryden.

The slipp'ry god will try to loose this hold.

We slit the preternatural body open. Wifem. A liberty might be left to the judges to inflict death, or fome notorious mark, by slitting the nofe. Temple.-if a plated body, should be slit into threads, I fee no reafon why every thread should not keep its colour. Newton.He took a freak

To slit my tongue, and make me speak. Swift. SLITTE, or a river of Scotland, in RoxburgSLITTERIC, thire, which runs into the Teviot at Hawick. To SLIVE. *To SLIVER. tear off longwife.

To

v. a. [ Alifar, Saxon.]
fplit; to divide longwife; to

Gall of goat, and flips of yew,
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipfe.

Shak. A branch

* SLIVER. n. f. [from the verb.] torn off. Silver, in Scotland, ftill denotes a flice cut off: as, he took a large fliver of the beef.An envious fliver broke,

When down her weedy coronet and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

Shak.

SLOANE, Sir Hans, Bart. an eminent physician and naturalift, was of Scottish extraction, his father Alexander Sloane being at the head of that colony of Scots which king James I. fettled in the H 2 north

north of Ireland, where our author was born, at Kragh, on the 16th of April 1660. At a very rally period, he difplayed a strong inclination for natural history; and this propenfity being encouraged by a fuitable education, he employed thofe hour, which young people generally lofe in trifling aroufements, in the ftudy of the productions of nature. When about 16, he was attacked by 2 fpitting of blood, which threatened danger, and interrupted the regular courfe of his ftudies for three years. Upon this he laid down for himself a e imen of temperance, by ftrictly obferving which, he was enabled to prolong his life beyond the ordinary bounds. On his recovery, he refol. ved to perfect him felf in the different branches of medicine, and with this view he went to London. On his arrival, he became a pupil to the great Stafforth, an excellent chemift, bred under the illustrious Stahl: and foon gained a perfect know ledge of the compofition and preparation of the various medicines then in ufe. He also studied botany at Chelfea, and attended the public lectures on anatomy and phyfic. His chief merit, however, was his knowledge of natural history; and this introduced him early to the acquaintance of Mr BOYLE and Mr RAY, two of the most emirent naturalifts of that age. His intimacy with thefe diftinguished characters continued as long as they lived; and as he communicated to them every object of curiofity that attracted his attention, his oblervations often excited their admiration. After Audying 4 years at London, Mr Sloane determined to visit foreign countries for improve ment. With this view he fet out for France in the company of two other fludents, and having croffed to Dieppe, proceeded to Paris. In the way thither they were clegantly entertained by the famous M. Lemery the elder; and in return Mr Sloane prefented that eminent chemift with a fpecimen of four different kinds of phosphorus, of which, upon the credit of other writers, M. Le mery had treated in his book of chemistry, though he had never feen any of them. (See LEMERY, N° 1.) At Faris Mr Sloane attended the hofpitals, heard the lectures of Tournefort, De Verney, and other eminent mafters; and vifited all the literati, who received him with particular marks of eftcem. From Paris he went to Montpellier; and, being furiined with letters from M. Tournefort to M. Chirac, then chancellor of that univerfity, he found eafy acccfs to all the learned men of the province, particularly to M. Magnel, whom he accompanied in his botanical excurfions in the environs of that city. Having here found an ample field for contemplation, fuited to his taste, he took leave of his two companions, who went into Italy. After spending a year in collecting plants, He travelled through Languedoc with the fame defign; and passing through Thouloufe and Bourdeaux, returned to Paris, where he made a fhort tay. In 1684, he returned to England. On his arrival in London, he called for his two illuftrious friends Mr Ray and Mr Boyle, to communicate to them the difcoveries he had made. The latter he found at home, but the former had retired to El fex ; to which place Mr Sloane tranfmitted a great variety of plants and feeds, which Mr Ray has defited in his History of Plants, and for which be

makes a proper acknowledgment. Not lo ter this he was propofed by Dr Martin Lif a candidate to be admitted a member of the Society, and was elected on the 21ft Jan. He foon after communicated fome curiofit the Society. On the 12th April, 1687, ho chofen a fellow of the college of phyficia London. On the 12th Sept. he embarke Portfmouth for Jamaica with the duke of marle, who had been appointed governor of island, in quality of his physician, and arriv the 19th December. Here a new field was ed for freth difcoveries in natural product but the duke of Albemarle died foon after he ed, and the duchefs determined to return to land as soon as poflible. As Dr Sloane coul leave her grace in her diftrefs, whilft the r her retinue were preparing for their departu improved the interval in making collections o tural curiofities; fo that though his whole ft Jamaica was not above 15 months, he brough gether fuch a prodigious number of plants, cn his return to England Mr Kay, was afton that one man could procure, in fo fhort a spac vaft a variety. On his arrival in London E plied himfelf to the practice of his profeffion; foon became so eminent, that he was chofen fician to Chrift's Hofpital on the 17th Oct. 1 and this office he held till 1730, when, on ace of his great age, he refigned it. He conit. applied the money he received for his troub the relief of thofe who were the greateft obj of compaffion in the hofpital. He had been o ted fecietary to the Royal Society on the Nov. 1693; and upon this occation he revived publication of the Philof. Tranf, which had! omitted for fome time. He continued to be editor of this work till 1712; and the volu which appeared during that period are monum of his induftry and ingenuity, many of the pi in them being written by himself. In the m time he published Catalogus Plantarum qua fula Jamaica sponte proveniunt, &c. Seu Pro mi Hiftorie Naturalis pars prima, which he d cated to the Royal Society a d College of Ph cians. About the fame time he formed the F of a public difpenfary, where the poor might furnished at prime colt with medicines, which afterwards carried into execntion, with the ai ance of the college of phylicians. He was co nually enriching and enlarging his cabinet of c ofities; and the fame which, in the courie o few years, it had acquired, brought every th that was curious in art or nature to be first of ed to him for purchase. In 1701, it was grea augmented, upon the death of William Court Efq. who had employed much of his time, fortune, in collecting rarities, and who bequeath the whole to Dr Sloane, on condition of his r ing certain debts and legacies with which he h charged it. Thefe terms our author accepted, a he executed the will of the donor with the m fcrupulous exactnefs. About 1706 he became i quainted with the celebrated Sydenham; " contracted fo warm an affection for him that took him into his houfe, and recommended h to his patients. In-1707, the first volume of Natural Hiftory of Jamaica appeared in fo thou

in

pers in the eyes, and his remedy for the bite of a mad dog. During the whole course of his life, Sir Hans had lived with fo much temperance, as had preferved him from feeling the infirmities of old age; but in his goth year he began to complain of pains, and to be fentible of an univerfal decay. He often faid, that the approach of death brought no terrors along with it; that he had long expected the ftroke; and that he was prepared to receive it whenever the great Author of his being fhould think tit. After an illness of 3 days, he died on the 11th Jan. 1752, and was interred on the 18th at Chelfea, in the fame vault with his lady, the folemnity being attended with the greateft concourfe of people, of all ranks and conditions, that had ever been feen on fuch an occafion. Sir Hans being extremely folicitous left his cabi net of curiofifies, which he had taken fo much pains to collect, fhould be again diilipated at his death, and being at the fame time unwilling that fo large a portion of his fortune should be loft to his children, he bequeathed it to the public, on condition that L. 20,000 thould be made good by: parliament to his family. This fum, though large in appearance, was fcarcely more than the intrin fic value of the gold and filver medals, the ores and precious ftones that were found in it; for in his laft will be declares, that the firft cuft of the whole amounted at leaft to L. 50,000. Besides his library, confifting of more than 50 000 volumes, 347 of which were illuftrated with cuts finely engraven and coloured from nature, there were 3560 MSS. and a vast number of rare and curious works of every kind. The parliament accepted the legacy, and fulfilled the conditions.

though the publication of the ad was delayed till 5725. By this very useful and magnificent work, the Materia Medica was enriched with a great number of excellent drugs not before known. In 1708 the Doctor was elected a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris; an honour to much the greater, as we were then at war with France, and the queen's confent was neceffary before he could accept it. In proportion as his credit rofe among the learned, his practice inCreated among the people of rank: Queen Anne hertelf frequently confulted him, and in her iaft nes was blooded by him. On the acceflion of George I. that prince, on the 3d of April 1716, created the Doctor a baronet, and made him phya general to the army, in which station he Guided till 1717, when he was appointed phyficar in ordinary to George II. He attended the Toya family till his death; and was particularly Soured by Q. Caroline. In the mean time he had been unanimoufly chofen one of the elects of the clege of phyficians, June 1, 1716, and he was elected prefideat on Sept. 30, 1719, an office which he held for 16 years. During that period be not only gave the highett proofs of his zeal and afility in the discharge of his dety, but in 1721 mde a prefent to that fociety of L. 100; and fo far emitted a very confiderable debt, which the rporation owed him, as to accept it in fuch tal fums as were leaft inconvenient to the ftate other affairs. Sir Hanз was ao lefs liberal to other learned bodies. He had no fooner purchased the manor of Chelfea, than he gave the company of apothecaries the entire freehold of their botaniCal garden there, upon condition only that they Boud prefent yearly to the Royal Society fifty Lew plants, till the number fhould amount to $200, which was completed in 1761. He gave bedes feveral other confiderable donations for the improvement of this garden; the fituation of which, fo near the capital, was fuch as to render very useful, as an excellent fchool for young botanifts. On the death of Sir Ifaac Newton, in 1747, Sir Hans was raised to the prefidency of the Hoyal Society. He made the Society a prefent

of 100

guineas, caufed a buft of King Charles Il its founder, to be erected in the great hall where it met; and procured Sir Godfrey Copely's benefaction of a medal of the value of five guineas, to be annually given as an honorary mark of dif tution to the perfon who communicates the beft experiments to the Society. In thefe and fimilar exertions for the benefit of that Society, he employed his time from 1727 to 1749, when, at the age of 80, he refigned the prefidency, much against the inclination of that refpectable body, ho, in a public affembly, thanked him for the eminent fervices he had rendered them. In Jan. 1141, he began to remove his library, and his cabanet of rarities, from his houfe in Bloomsbury to that at Chelfea; and on the 12th March followng, having fettled all his affairs, he retired thither himfelf, to enjoy in tranquillity the remains of a well-pent life. He did not, however, bury himfelf in folitude, but during his retreat, prefented to the public fuch useful remedies as fuccefs had arranted, during the courfe of a long practice. Among thefe is the efficacious receipt for diftem

SLOANEA, in botany, the SAPPODILLO tree, a genus of plants belonging to the class of polyandria, and order of monogynia; and in the natural fyftem ranging under the soth order, Amentace.e. The corolla is pentapetalous; the calyx pentaphyllous and deciduous; the ftigma is perforated; the berry is corticofe, echinated, polyfpermous and gapi g. There are two fpecies;

1. SLOANEA DENTATA, the fappodillo tree; and 2. SLOANEA EMARGINATA, the Apeiba of Brazil. * SLOATS. n. f. Of a cart, are thofe underpieces which keep the bottom together. Bailey.

* SLOBBER. n. f. glaverio, Welsh.] Slaver. See SLAVER.

SLOBODSKAIA, a town and fort of Ruffia, in Ekaterinoflaf; 64 miles NE. of Ekaterinoflaf.

SLOBODSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in Viatka; 20 miles NNE. of Viatka. Lon. 68. 30. E. Ferro, Lat. 58. 40. N.

* To SLOCK. v. n. I flock, to quench, Swedish and Scottish.] To flake; to quench.

To SLOCKEN is the verb univerfally ufed in the Scottish dialect. To SLOCK wou'd hardly be understood.

(1.) * SLOE. n. f. [fia, Saxon; flaae, Danish.J The fruit of the blackthorn, a fmall wild plum.

The fait pomegranate might adorn the pine, The grape the bramble, and the floe the vine. Blackmore.

-When you fell your underwoods, fow haws and floes in there. Mortimer.

(2.) SLOE. See PRUNUS, N° 9.
SLONIM, a town of Lithuania, in Novegro