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▪ I. sloughing, vbl. n.|ˈslʌfɪŋ|
[f. slough v.2]
1. a. Path. The process of forming a slough.
1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 548 On a subsidence of the swelling, there was a sloughing. 1826S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 52 When sloughing and ulceration have actually taken place, some surgeons apply lint. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 289 After first week there was some sloughing about amputation wound.
b. attrib. in sloughing process, sloughing state.
1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 454 Their gangrenous sloughs once removed, and the sloughing process..corrected. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 473 The sloughing and gangrenous states.
2. The action or process of casting a slough; exuviation. Also attrib.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 238 When the sloughing process begins for shifting their skins. 1857Gosse Omphalos viii. 216 A great many periodical sloughings of the crust [of a crab] must have occurred. 1897G. C. Bateman Vivarium 180 The sloughing of a Snake is a very interesting operation to watch.
fig.1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 194 The sloughing-off of the imperfection ingrown as it were with the soul.
3. The collapse of soil or rock into a hole or down a bank.
1897W. Starling Floods of Mississippi i. 14/1 There is no incident..more alarming..than the sloughing or slipping of the inside slope of a levee. 1948Terzaghi & Peck Soil Mech. in Engin. Pract. viii. 336 To prevent sloughing of the toes of the slopes, the small quantity of water that flows through the gaps between the wells is removed. 1957Nature 13 July 100 (heading) Vernal sloughing of sludge deposits in a sewage effluent channel. 1972L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations vi. 90 On completion of drilling, the hole is normally filled with gel-water mud to prevent sloughing and fill.
▪ II. ˈsloughing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
1. Path. Developing or forming a slough or sloughs.
1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 649 The too-long-continued use of stimulating remedies in sloughing burns. 1845Budd Dis. Liver 71 The sloughing ulceration in acute dysentery. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 434 Charcoal poultices..usually ordered for sloughing wounds.
Comb.1869Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 30 In the majority of cases..a sloughing looking ulcer is left.
2. Of soil or rock: collapsing, sliding.
1974P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Practices Manual iii. 46 It has been common practice to reduce water-loss when sloughing shale becomes a problem. |