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▪ I. slink, n.|slɪŋk|
Also 7 slinke, slincke, 8 sclink.
[Related to slink v.]
I.
1. a. An abortive or premature calf or other animal. Chiefly dial.
1638Peacham Valley of Varietie 32 The Germans loath to eate of a Slinke (or yong Calfe, cut out of the Cowes belly before it be calved). 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Slink, a cast Calf. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose. 1826–in dial. glossaries (Yorks., Lancs., Chesh., Derb., Nhp., Wilts., etc.). 1895Melbourne Argus 26 Nov., As to ‘slinks’ a great scare seemed to have been created, but from a health point of view they were merely indigestible.
†b. transf. An illegitimate child; a bastard.
1702Comberbach in Byron & Elms Life 391 (Cent.), What did you go to London for but to drop your slink?
c. The skin or flesh of a premature calf or other animal. Also transf. (quot. 1816).
(a)1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. i. 57 Take liquid Styrax, spread it thin upon Sclink, or some very fine Kid's Leather. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Slinks, the skins of prematurely born lambs, calves, etc.
(b)1808Jamieson s.v., When this [flesh] is palmed on an ignorant purchaser for veal, it is called slink. 1816Scott Antiq. xv, He hasna settled his [butcher's] account wi' my gudeman..for this twalmonth—he's but slink, I doubt.
2. attrib.
a. Designating the skins or meat obtained from premature or abortive animals.
Sometimes also applied to inferior, bad, or diseased meat.
(a)1607T. Cocks Acc. 23 May (MS.), For ij payre of slincke skynne gloves ij s. viij d. 1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1308/4 A Slink skin Purse. 1711Act 10 Anne c. 26 §1 All Slink Calve-skins..dressed..with the Hair on. 1794in Scott Statist. Acc. Perth (1790) 38 A good many small and slink kid, and mort lamb-skins. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 108 Slink Foal Skins are always entered, and the Duty charged thereon, as Horse Hides.
(b)1770P. Skelton Wks. V. 599 Would they indulge in bear bread and slink veal, while their master lives on leeks and cold potatoes? 1820C. R. Maturin Melmoth I. i. 10 There was the slink-veal flanked with tripe. 1892Pall Mall G. 28 Oct. 4/3 Preston was deluged with ‘slink’ meat, owing to the laxity of their sanitary system. 1895Melbourne Argus 26 Nov., In some countries unborn calves were sold as ‘slink’ meat.
b. Designating animals of this kind.
1750Student I. 340 This membrane does not properly appertain to dogs, etc. yet it may be found in slink calves. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 307 Slink-calf, the abortion of a cow. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Slink-lamb, one that has been dropped or born prematurely.
c. In sense ‘trading in or selling slink or diseased meat’, as slink-butcher.
1832Examiner 89/2 On Sunday morning last a number of slink butchers from Manchester fetched it away in a cart. 1886St. James' Gaz. 14 May 4 (Cassell), The protection of our own slink-butchers from any dishonourable competition..with their industry.
d. slink-weed, rose-bay, willow-herb. U.S.
1858Thoreau Jrnl. 29 Aug. in Writings (1906) XVII. 134 F. says they call the cardinal-flower ‘slink-weed’, and say that the eating it will cause cows to miscarry. 1889Chambers's Encycl. IV. 401/1 This species [Epilobium angustifolium] with several others is common in North America, where it is sometimes called..slink-weed, from a belief that it causes cows to ‘slink’ or miscarry.
II.
3. a. dial. or colloq. A sneaking, shirking, cowardly fellow; a sneak or skulk.
1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 398 Tho' ye were an unco slink, I'm sad without ye. 1830Examiner 813/1 He had given Sack a turn because he was such a d―d slink. 1862Morning Star 24 Jan. 6/5 He had been called a skulk, a slink, a moral coward.
Comb.1842S. Lover Handy Andy xiv, He's blackguardin' and blastin' away about that quare slink-lookin' chap.
b. dial. and U.S. (See quots.)
1863Wise New Forest Gloss. s.v., ‘A slink of a thing’..means either a poor, weak, starved creature, or anything which is small and not of good quality. 1891Cent. Dict., Slink,..a thin or poor and bony fish, especially such a mackerel.
4. a. A slinking, sneaking, or stealthy pace or tread.
1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 151 He decamped, with a sort of half slink, half swagger. 1896F. A. Steel Face Waters ii. i, Those who went forth with the dog's trot might return with the cat's slink.
b. A downcast or furtive glance or look. rare.
1863Mrs Whitney Faith Gartney xxxvi, The boy showed a slink in his eyes, like one used to shoving and rebuff.
▪ II. slink, a.1 dial.|slɪŋk|
[? Related to slink n. and v.]
Lank, lean, poor, ill-conditioned.
1673A. Behn Dutch Lover iii. ii, Do you remember..when instead of a Periwig, you wore a slink, greasie hair of your own. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxvii, It was a slink beast, and wad hae eaten its head aff, standing at Luckie Flyter's at livery. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 361 Slink, lank, slender; combined with awkwardness. 1889Cent. Dict. s.v. Mackerel, Slink mackerel, a poor thin mackerel taken among schools of fat ones in the fall of the year. 1892Ewing Poems 16 (E.D.D.), Their coachman freen', leen, slink and lang.
▪ III. slink, a.2 (or adv.)
[f. slink v.]
Slinking, furtive, submissive.
1792Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ode to Ld. Lonsdale Wks. 1812 III. 45 Juries before the Judges won't look slink. No, No; they fancy they've a right to think.
▪ IV. slink, v.|slɪŋk|
Pa. tense and pple. slunk |slʌŋk|. Forms: 1 slincan, 4 slynke, 6 slynk, slinck-, 7 slinke, 6– slink; 5 sclynk, 6 sclink; 5 slenk. pa. tense 1 scluncon, 6 slo(o)nke, 7 slonk, slunke, 7– slunk, 7, 9 slank, slinked. pa. pple. 7– slunk, 9 dial. slunken, slinked.
[OE. slincan to creep, crawl (of reptiles), = LG. slinken (MSw. and Sw. dial. slinka), G. schlinken (see Grimm). Cf. MDu. and MLG. slinken to sink, subside. See also slench v.]
1. a. intr. Of persons or animals: To move, go, walk, etc. in a quiet, stealthy, or sneaking manner. Usu. const. with preps. and advs.
For OE. examples, in the sense ‘to creep or crawl’, see Bosworth-Toller, s.v. Slincan.
αc1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1535 He softe into his bed gan for to slynke To slepe longe. c1400Beryn 3334 Som of ȝew shall be riȝt feyn to sclynk a-wey & hyde. 1448Paston Lett. IV. 19 He slenkyd behynd and toke his master on the hepe suyche a stroke that..brake his hepe. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 105 She..commeth againe steeling and slinketh into his companie. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 25 Antenor was habil, from Grekish coompanye slincking, Too passe through Greceland. 1624J. Gee Foot out of Snare iii. 22 The poor husband is fain to slink away hungry to his rest. 1671J. Flavel Fount. of Life xxiii. 69 The Wretch slinked away from him into the city. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 184 The wily Fox..slinks behind And slily creeps thro' the same beaten Track. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlix, A withered, old, lean man,..slinking about Gray's Inn of mornings chiefly, and dining alone at clubs. 1857Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 28, I think I should slink into a corner and cry. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 373 He had to slink into Thessalonica incognito and by night.
β1534More Comf. agst. Trib. i. Wks. 1162/2 Then left them their gameners and slily slonke awaye. 1587Golding De Mornay xxxiii. (1592) 534 When a plague was begunne [Apollonius] gaue warning of it: and when it grew strong, he sloonke away. 1600Holland Livy xliv. xlv. 1199 The Thracians durst not goe abourd.., but slunke every man away to his own home. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 602 For Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk. 1725De Foe Voy. r. World (1840) 40 Will Jones slunk in among the rest. 1786H. More Florio ii. 183 The din alarm'd the frighten'd deer Who in a corner slunk for fear. 1815Scott Guy M. ii, He slunk from college by the most secret paths he could discover. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xxi, We all slunk back to our places.
γ1656S. Holland Zara iii. v. 198 The Champion therefore, having imbraced Soto,..slank down into his bed the second time. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Southey & Porson Wks. 1853 I. 17/2 There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed. 1856‘C. Bede’ College Life 155 Wall-time came, and I slank across the Quad. for my dinner. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 145 The false brethren secretly introduced, who slank in to spy out our liberty.
b. transf. or fig. in various contexts.
An OE. example occurs in Be Domes Dæᵹe 240.
1533More Debell. of Salem Wks. 968/1 To hide the trouthe oute of syght, [and] slinke into lurkes lane. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. v, Whom fretful gaules of chance..Makes not his reason slinke. 1657Austen Fruit Trees ii. 104 Being by Christ told what to do, he slinks back from Christ. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 112 When Brass and Pewter hap to stray And Linnen slinks out of the way. 1806Beresford Miseries Hum. Life vi. xxxv, Seeing the sun quietly slink behind a mass of black clouds. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. vi. (1869) 136, I should not be pleased to see him slink out of his acknowledged opinion. 1858Holland Titcomb's Lett. viii. 241 Temptations that..slink from him without attack.
†c. To skulk, hide oneself. Obs. rare.
a1575Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden, No. 36) 71 Catus Decianus..slinkinge in the middest of this feare, passed into Fraunce.
2. trans.
a. To draw quietly; to slip. rare—1.
1626in Foster Eng. Factories India (1909) III. 137 Perceiveing the President..more forward then himself, upon faire and equall tearmes which cutt off his advantagious devices, he slonk his head out of the coller, and so the project dying [etc.].
b. To avoid, shirk, evade. rare—1.
1657G. Starkey Nature's Explic. Ep. Rdr. 30 If I slink the proof of experiment, let me be reputed what they please.
†c. To hang (the head). Obs.—1
1682Dryden & Lee Dk. Guise iii. i, Yet Spight of all this Factor of the Fiends Cou'd urge, they slunk their Heads like Hinds in Storms.
d. To withdraw from. rare.
1853J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 26 Many a witness..‘slunk his pitch mightily’ when old Kasm put him through on the cross-examination.
e. To turn (the eyes) round in a stealthy or slinking manner. rare.
1923Galsworthy Captures 162 Leaning down to our scoundrel and slinking her eyes round at the Countess, she murmured something malicious.
3. a. Of animals, esp. cows: To bear or bring forth (young) prematurely or abortively. Cf. cast v. 21, and sling v.1 2 c.
1640Gower Ovids Festivalls iv. 91 Beasts slunk their young with most untimely throws. 1721Mortimer Husb. II. 222 To prevent a Mare's slinking her Foal. 1794Washington Lett. & Writ. (1892) XIII. 15, I was told..that almost all the mares had slunk their foals. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 438 Over exertion in walking..may..make her slip calf,—or to slink the calf, as it is usually termed. 1886Field 13 Feb. 205/3 Sometimes all cows in a dairy slink their calves.
fig.a1658Cleveland Char. Diurn. Maker (1677) 104 He is the Embryo of a History slink'd before Maturity.
absol.a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 282 To let a cow keep company with other cows, after she has slunk her calf, will be apt to make some of the others slink also. 1886Field 16 Jan. 86/2 Swedes have not proved a cheap food when ewes in lamb have ‘slinked’ after living on them. 1889[see slink n. 2 d].
†b. With away: To reduce by miscarriage.
1664Pepys Diary 17 Aug., Lady Castlemayne, who he believes has lately slunk a great belly away. |