单词 | slip |
释义 | slipn.1ΚΠ c1000 Saxon Leechd. II. 18 Genim sealh & ele, do ahsan, gewyrc þonne to slypan. c1000 Saxon Leechd. II. 18 Do þonne on þone sl pan. c1000 Saxon Leechd. III. 38 Wyrc slypan of wætere & of axsan, genim finol, wyl on þære slyppan. 2. a. Curdled milk. Now U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > curds curd1378 slipc1425 wrench-milk1510 well curds1538 float-wheyc1550 ricoct1582 curdlea1591 bonny clabber1605 fleeting1611 clabber1634 yearned milk?1635 trouts1683 sweet-cheese1688 earning1744 slip curd1784 c1425 26 Pol. Poems 110 My hert shulde be stedefast, Þou hast lopred as mylk, and slep in þouȝ t, Riȝt as chese þou croddest me fast. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 416 Slip, milk turned with rennet, etc., before the whey separates from the curd. b. slip cheese, slip curd: (see quots. 1784, 1854). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > curds curd1378 slipc1425 wrench-milk1510 well curds1538 float-wheyc1550 ricoct1582 curdlea1591 bonny clabber1605 fleeting1611 clabber1634 yearned milk?1635 trouts1683 sweet-cheese1688 earning1744 slip curd1784 1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 31 When the whole is in a state of Slip Curd, or Slippery Curd, which is a state all Curd is in, before it becomes solid Curd. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 207 Some dairy-maids now add the slip curd. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 246 Slip~cheese, soft cheese, plate-cheese: that which is made without crushing out the whey. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] laira1340 fanc1340 mudc1400 slutchc1400 slikec1425 slipc1440 slobber1440 sorec1440 slot?a1500 glar?a1513 slubber1570 slab1622 lute1694 lutulence1727 sletch1743 sleek1774 slakec1800 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > mud loamc725 fenc897 addleOE fanc1340 mudc1400 slutchc1400 slikec1425 slipc1440 slobber1440 sorec1440 sludge1649 mux1746 gutter1785 slakec1800 sposh1836 mudge1848 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 459/2 Slyp (S. slype, P. slypp), idem quod slyme. a1500 Adrian & Epotys 167 in Brome Bk. 30 Slyppe of þe erthe wos on off thoo, Watyr of the see god toke ther-too. 4. technical. A semi-liquid material, made of finely-ground clay or flint, etc., mixed with water to about the consistency of cream, and used for making, cementing, coating, or decorating pottery, tiles, etc.; also, clay suitable for making this. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > suitable for pottery eartha1350 pot earth?a1450 slip1640 blue clay1698 figuline1859 pottery clay1869 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > [noun] > with water loam1480 clama1555 slip1640 puddle1791 puddling1826 slop1844 pug1853 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > materials slip1640 slop1844 stencil1853 monochrome1858 barbotine1865 trailed slip1957 1640 in J. Entick Hist. London (1767) II. 178 Slip, the barrel,..1d. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 122 This they call Slip, and is the substance wherewith they paint their wares. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 122 Red Slip, made of a dirty reddish clay, which gives wares a black colour. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Horsley-Heath A reddish earth, called slip, with which they paint the vessels made at Wednesbury. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 299 Under this [is] white slip, that is, potter's clay. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 484 The inside is rendered white by a wash of slip, flint, and porcelain clay. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 451 The clay, which is used in a semi liquid state about the consistency of cream and called ‘slip’. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 295/2 Some ‘slip’, or finely-ground flint used in glazing earthenware. CompoundsGeneral attributive. C1. a. slip-house n. ΚΠ 1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 40 The place where this evaporation is performed is called the slip-house. 1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns viii. 167 The clay travelled naturally in a circle from the slip-house by the canal to the packing-house by the canal. 1961 M. Jones Potbank viii. 30 The maker breaks a lump of clay off the hunk brought from the sliphouse. slip-kiln n. ΚΠ 1769 J. Wedgwood Let. 9 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 73 The Slip Kiln is nearly finished. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 457 The whole is passed through fine lawn into a reservoir, from whence it is pumped upon the slip-kiln. slip-room n. ΚΠ 1752 Gentleman's Mag. 22 348 The slip and treading rooms. b. slip-decoration n. ΚΠ 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 458/1 Slip decoration consists of applying to the unfired clay surface of the ware, before it has been dried and fired, contrasted coloured slips, either by trailing from a quill, [etc.]. 1973 R. Fournier Illustr. Dict. Pract. Pottery 211/2 (caption) Slip decoration. An English slip-trailed dish—possibly Tickenhall. slip-glaze n. ΚΠ 1960 Times 6 Aug. 9/7 Without the slip~glaze upper decoration finish. slip-inlay n. ΚΠ 1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 188/2 When the ‘slip’ inlay has become nearly of the same consistency as the tile itself. slip-state n. ΚΠ 1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 793/2 The clays..are passed through lawn sieves in the liquid or slip state. c. slip casting n. the manufacture of ceramic articles by allowing slip to solidify in a porous mould. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] > types of presswork1839 vase-work1893 coiling1900 slip casting1901 ring-building1932 1901 W. P. Rix tr. E. Bourry Treat. Ceramic Industries iv. 231 (heading) Moulding by slip casting. 1959 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 191 208/1 A description is given of the technique of slip casting, and its application to the casting of high-temperature materials including ceramics and metallo-ceramics. 1974 F. H. Norton Elem. Ceramics viii. 95 The slip-casting method is much used in ceramic production as it is possible by this means to reproduce very complicated shapes in plaster molds. C2. slip-decorated adj. ΚΠ 1883 L. M. E. Solon Art of Old Eng. Potter 27 (heading) Slip-decorated ware. 1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain ii. 25 At Wrotham..were produced..quaint, slip-decorated posset-pots, tygs, and dishes. 1907 A. Bennett Grim Smile Five Towns, Death Simon Fuge ii Huge slip-decorated dishes. 1979 Essex Jrnl. 14 20 There were also a number of small sherds of slip-decorated lead-glazed jugs and plates produced at Harlow. slip-decorator n. ΚΠ 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §105 Slip decorator, applies a pattern to pottery in the green state by blowing on coloured clay slips. slip-glazing n. ΚΠ 1960 Times 6 Aug. 9/6 The dual colouring..was obtained by slip-glazing before firing. slip-maker n. ΚΠ 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 459 The slip-maker carefully attends to the evaporation. slip-making n. ΚΠ 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 450/1 Slip making.—In the preparation of the clay for best flint ware [etc.]. slip-painting n. ΚΠ 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 874/2 Turning to the decorative side of pottery work, we have in slip-painting a method as old as primitive pottery itself. 1964 H. Hodges Artifacts i. 33 One particularly elaborate form of slip painting, feather combing, involves the use of a brush with multiple points. slip-strainer n. ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Slip-strainer,..a strainer of any form through which the slip is passed. slip-trailer n. ΚΠ 1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. ii. 33 There are at least half a dozen potteries in Japan where the slip-trailer is employed. 1960 H. Powell Beginner's Bk. Pottery ii. 64 Slip trailer.., a small rubber bag with a narrow neck into which is fitted a thin glass tube. slip-trailing n. ΚΠ 1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. vi. 147 One glaze can be trailed over another with the same instrument that is used in slip trailing. 1964 H. Hodges Artifacts i. 33 The clay may be applied in a fairly fluid form using for the purpose a container with a nozzle, much as a cake is iced by bakers. This method is called slip-trailing. 1977 Harrison Mayer Ltd. Catal. 27/1 A range of coloured slips prepared for slip trailing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slipn.2 I. A small shoot or scion, and related uses. 1. a. A twig, sprig, or small shoot taken from a plant, tree, etc., for the purpose of grafting or planting; a scion, cutting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip planteOE plantingeOE quickwoodc1383 graffa1393 sarmenta1398 slivingc1400 springc1400 clavec1420 sleavingc1440 talionc1440 quick1456 quicking1469 graft1483 quickset1484 slip1495 setlingc1503 set1513 pitchset1519 slaving?1523 truncheon1572 stallon1587 crosset1600 marquot1600 sliver1604 secta1616 offset1629 slipping1638 side-slip1651 slift1657 cutting1691 pitcher1707 mallet-shoot1745 root cutting1784 stowing1788 stool1789 pitch1808 heel1822 cutling1834 piping1851 cutback1897 stump plant1953 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip > for grafting imp1377 graffa1398 talionc1440 graft1483 slip1495 set1513 wedge?1523 scutcheon1572 shield1572 truncheon1572 breeder1601 scion1612 escutcheon1658 slit-graft1706 graffshoot1860 shield-bud1891 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxviii. 682 Propago is a yonge braunche of a vyne that spryngith of a slippe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 271/2 Slyppe of an herbe, branche. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 80 b Geve me some slippes of that tree that I might set them in some orcharde. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 38 To be set of the slippes. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 39 My fairest Apple-tree was such a Slip. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 72 The Lab'rer cuts Young Slips, and in the Soil securely puts. View more context for this quotation 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 224 Propagate them by cuttings, or slips of the young shoots. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxvi. 422 Blighted stumps and flourishing young slips. 1872 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 116 A slip taken from a tree dying of old age. b. In figurative context. (Common c1600.) ΚΠ a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 60/2 Bastard slippes shal neuer take depe roote. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 75 Beautie was no niggard of hir slippes in this gardeine. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 332 This suppressed house.., was some slippe of that tree, which one Iames..did first plant in Spaine. 1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. E1 Because he is a slip of mine owne grafting, I likewise bequeath to him my best Slippers. 1643 E. Bowles Mysterie Iniquitie 17 These Southerne Plants, being slips of an Italian Stocke, could not endure this Northerne Climate. c. A scion or descendant. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] sonOE lineage1303 rootc1330 impinga1340 after-comera1382 nephewa1387 impc1412 descentc1475 branch1535 descendant1569 stirp1574 scion1591 sprig1591 slip1594 sprout?1611 posterior1889 ancestor1920 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. i. 9 Braue slip sprong from the great Andronicus. View more context for this quotation a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 340 Julia a little before dying,..together with an infant she bare,..and she gone without any slip remaining [etc.]. 1764 C. Churchill Gotham ii. 13 Any Slip of Stuart's tyrant race. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xx. 278 He talk'd of Bastard Slips, and curs'd his Bed. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 292 No doubt..that slip [= daughter] of the country parson, keeps the whip-hand. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 110 Even rosy little slips out of the nursery, who cluster round his beloved feet. d. figurative. An offshoot, outgrowth. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else daughtereOE outcasting1340 impc1380 childa1398 outgrowing?a1425 proventc1451 provenuec1487 excrescency1545 sprig1575 procedure?1577 proceed1578 derivative1593 offspring1596 superfetation1603 excression1610 shootc1610 excretion1615 slip1627 excrescence1633 derivation1641 derivate1660 offshoot1801 offtracta1806 deduction1835 outgrowth1837 1627 R. Bernard Isle of Man (ed. 4) ii. 214 Covetousness is..indeed..a slip of Thrift. 1831 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. 53 169 Some small slip of heathendom. 2. a. A young person of either sex, esp. one of small or slender build. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] youngeOE younglingOE girlc1300 youtha1325 young onec1384 birdc1405 young person1438 young blood1557 primrosea1568 slip1582 juvenal1598 quat1607 airling1611 egga1616 saplinga1616 chita1657 a slip of a girla1660 juvenile1733 young adult1762 boots1806 snip1838 spring chicken1857 yob1859 kid1884 chiseller1922 juvenile adult1926 YA1974 yoof1986 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 67 The slip Ascanius..Shee cols for the father. 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. D The good health and wellfare of these two yong Slipps his sonnes. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iii. 66 We know how that matter fell out, and we have corrected for it the wild slip, young Raleigh. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xciv Shusey Dogherty was a good-looking slip. 1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 139 He was puny, an under~sized slip,—a darling to me, all the same! b. With of (introducing descriptive term), esp. in a slip of a girl. (Cf. sense 8.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] youngeOE younglingOE girlc1300 youtha1325 young onec1384 birdc1405 young person1438 young blood1557 primrosea1568 slip1582 juvenal1598 quat1607 airling1611 egga1616 saplinga1616 chita1657 a slip of a girla1660 juvenile1733 young adult1762 boots1806 snip1838 spring chicken1857 yob1859 kid1884 chiseller1922 juvenile adult1926 YA1974 yoof1986 a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) III. 38 This slippe of a boye Sir Walter Dungan. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. ii. 35 Tony hath but a slip of a daughter. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xv. 268 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 105 There was his wife, and the slip of a girl. c. A thin or slender person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > person having slip1703 stick1945 superwaif1972 waif1980 1703 R. Steele Tender Husband iv. ii My Lady Shapely has by that thin Slip eight Children. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. i. 4 She was a tall slip of a woman. 3. a. dialect and New Zealand. A young store-pig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young farrowa700 grice?c1225 piga1250 hogling1377 porketa1555 porkling1561 porkin1570 swine shoat1581 hog-babe1610 hoglet1611 pigling1612 piggy1625 gruntling1686 porkrel1694 piggy-wiggy1766 griceling1782 boneen1827 slip1832 piglet1839 slip-pig1844 squeaker1861 piggy-wig1870 snork1891 snorker1891 1832 H. Martineau Ireland ii. 31 His mother..had a cow, and a slip of a pig. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) A store pig of older growth would be described as a ‘hard slip’. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 559/1 The usual practice is to buy the pigs as slips. 1977 Cornish Times 19 Aug. 1/1 (advt.) Strong quality Slips and Pigs for slaughter accepted. b. A sole of intermediate size. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Soleidae (soles) > member of genus Solea > solea solea (sole) > of particular size tongue-fish1655 tonguea1825 slip1881 1881 Daily News 4 Mar. 4/6 Small soles,..under the name of ‘slips’, were introduced into the menus of Greenwich hotels. 1884 British Alm. & Comp. ii. 31 Small soles, known in the trade as ‘slips’ and ‘tongues’. II. An edge, skirt, or narrow strip, and related uses. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > other netOE sheepskinc1175 tail1297 panec1300 slipc1440 cukera1500 peak1509 waist1590 bumbarrel1609 winglet1611 armhole1731 fullness1792 stride1807 bottom1820 patte1835 buckling1861 ventilator1870 tie-back1880 shield1884 organ pleat1886 outer1904 flarea1910 uplift1929 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 459/2 Slyp, or skyrte, lascinia. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Heft u Slippen op, take up the Edge or Slip of your Kirtle. b. A light under-waistcoat with the edge showing to form a border to a waistcoat worn with morning dress. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > waistcoat > types of stomacherc1450 wyliecoat1478 waistcoat1585 cheat1688 linder1768 sleeve-waistcoat1825 shawl-waistcoat1840 bawneen1910 slip1933 1933 C. St. J. Sprigg Fatality in Fleet St. viii. 98 Oakley looked like..a monkey which had surprisingly been trained to wear a morning-coat and grey slip. 1941 H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful iii. x. 158 And you looking lovely in a silk hat and light grey trousers. You'll have, you know, white slips to your waistcoat. 5. A spoon-handle having the top cut off obliquely; a spoon with a handle or stem of this form. (Cf. slipped adj.2 1.) Now Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > spoon > parts of stalka1423 slipc1530 shank1688 bit1703 heel1801 rat's tail1878 the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > spoon > types of maidenhead1495 slipc1530 Apostle spoon1631 tea-spoon1686 hall-spoon1688 pap spoon1691 tablespoon1741 dessert-spoon1808 salt-spoon1820 monkey spoon1833 Puritan spoon1875 sugar shell1895 seal-top1898 slotted spoon1900 absinthe spoon1905 trifid1927 c1530 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 312 Twoo doson of Sponnes with Slippis un gilte. 1552 Will of George Hynde (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/35) f. 185 Sixe silver sponnes callyd slyppes. 1583 in Cripps Old Eng. Plate (1901) 281 xij spones called slippes weying xxiiij ownces and a half. 6. a. A long and relatively thin and narrow piece or strip of some material. Frequently with of. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece latchetc1350 labelc1425 strip1459 slipea1552 slip1555 slippet1657 fillet1663 strappet1665 riband1766 streamer1810 strip1831 striplet1839 ribbon1847 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > narrow piece sliverc1374 lista1398 labelc1425 reeve1726 stripe1785 slip1825 finger1839 striplet1839 slither1919 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. i. 92v Such as were brused, they tyed fast with theyr gyrdels, with slippes of the barkes of trees. 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. i. sig. Aiiv Out at doores I hyed mee, And caught a slyp of Bacon, when I saw that none spyed mee. 1645 Doc. S. Paul's (Camden) 144 218 carved narrowe slipps [of wood]. 1665 in Roxburghe Ballads (1887) VI. 437 The burly fat Dutchmen being cut out in slips. 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 252 Let..the joint [be] covered with a slip of canvas smeared with lute. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §97 It was steadied in that position, by..two slips of deal. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 322 This joint is connected with the nut by means of two steel slips... The other ends of these slips..turn..on pins. 1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature ii. 93 One slip of the muscle is attached..to the tendons of the long flexors. 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 25 A glass slip is now placed on the hot plate. b. In special uses (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > slides talc1766 finder1829 slide1837 slip1895 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 387 We always begin an Index upon an uneven page, and put a Slip or double rule at the Head thereof. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 299 The harpooners..divide the fat [of the whale] into oblong pieces or ‘slips’. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §82 To put..jambs, slips (sides of the jambs), and shelves to both the fireplaces. 1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 8 Slips are pieces of Turkey or other stone about four inches long and one and a quarter wide. 1895 G. E. Davis Pract. Microsc. (ed. 3) 375 Objects are generally mounted upon glass slides, or ‘slips’, as they are sometimes called. 1903 G. Jack Wood Carving iii. 43 For sharpening the insides of tools, ‘slips’ are made with rounded edges of different sizes. One slip of ‘Washita’ stone and one of ‘Arcansas’. 1960 C. H. Hayward Cabinet Making for Beginners (ed. 2) iv. 104 Drawer Making... Grooved slips are glued to the sides to hold the bottom. c. An excised piece of this form. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > cut out slip1704 stripe1785 1704–15 Maryland Laws (1723) vii. 22 With a Slip cut down the Face of the Tree near the Ground. 7. A strip, a narrow piece or stretch, of land, ground, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip sideling1250 tail1472 strake1503 vein1555 slip1591 neckland1598 slang1610 spang1610 screed1615 gore1650 spong1650 belt1725 slinget1790 stripe1801 strip1816 wedge1867 ribbon1923 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > narrow strip of land swathc1325 runrig1437 raina1450 selionc1450 rundale1474 quillet1533 rig length1616 plank1631 narrow land1640 rap1710 run-ridge1741 rean1781 slinget1790 slip1837 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth ii. f. 5v A little Isthmus or narrow slippe of lande. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 6 The long slip of Rocks..is..stored with many curious Plants. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1668 (1955) III. 512 A lease of a slip of ground out of Brick-Close. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 67 Acosta..divides the country into three long narrow Slips. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 72 The island..is a narrow slip of sand-hills. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. i. 360 The slip of barren country between the Indus and the plain of Peshawer. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. iii. i. 512 Cottiers, who pay for their small slips of land by working for the principal lessees. 8. An example or specimen of something having an elongated or slender form. (Cf. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow object (varied general uses) > example or specimen of slip1730 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 303 There is also a small Loop-Hole besides the Slip of the Window. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 312 The Light..comes from certain Slips of Windows. 1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 132/2 These children were kept to work in a small slip of a room. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 40 When he found himself ushered into a neat sanded slip of a coffee-room. 1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek iii. 57 I have a slip of a garden,..and, though it is but a slip, it is of rare mellow mould. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. xviii. 213 Her anxious eyes, her charming lips, her slip of a figure. 9. a. A window, apartment, passage, etc., of an elongated form. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window loop1393 shot-windowc1405 gable window1428 batement light1445 church window1458 shot1513 casement1538 dream-hole1559 luket1564 draw window1567 loop-window1574 loophole1591 tower-windowc1593 thorough lights1600 squinch1602 turret window1603 slit1607 close-shuts1615 gutter window1620 street lighta1625 balcony-window1635 clere-story window1679 slip1730 air-loop1758 Venetian1766 Venetian window1775 sidelight1779 lancet window1781 French casement1804 double window1819 couplet1844 spire-light1846 lancet1848 tower-light1848 triplet1849 bar-window1857 pair-light1868 nook window1878 coupled windows1881 three-light1908–9 north-light1919 storm window1933 borrowed light1934 Thermopane1941 storms1952 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 302 A high and narrow Window, or a Slip, as we shall call it. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 330 A narrow slip about five feet wide, separated from the rest of the room by a transverse partition. b. U.S. A narrow, doorless church-pew. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > pew > [noun] > doorless stall1580 slip1828 1828–32 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1858 Rev. Statutes Wisconsin 200 All houses of public worship,..and the pews or slips and furniture therein. 1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People iii. 23 Why,..if there ain't the minister's boys down in that front slip! c. plural. (See quot. 1874.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > gallery > sides of slips1805 1805 Sir R. Wilson in Life (1862) I. 345 Those ladies who had not boxes sat in what would be termed in England one shilling slips. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 42 They thought they couldn't do better than go half-price to the slips at the City Theatre. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 19/1 When the gallery is well packed,..on the partition boards, dividing off the slips, lads will pitch themselves, despite the spikes. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 296 Slips, the sides of the gallery in a theatre are generally so called. 10. a. A piece of paper or parchment, esp. one which is narrow in proportion to its length. Frequently with of. Also betting slip: see betting-slip n. at betting n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > slip of slip1688 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqqv/2 It is called Slip in English, from its Shape, it being printed in a long Slip of Paper. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Scroll A slip or Roll of Parchment, &c. 1724 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 112 If that worthy person will let me know by post or a slip, wherein I can serve him here. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 25 I'll find a slip of sheep-skin that will do his business. 1846 F. Madden Laȝamon's Brut I. Pref. p. xli After writing near 50,000 slips, it was found impracticable to carry the design [of the glossary] into execution. 1886 Weekly Notes 188/2 The registrar made a note of this declaration on a slip of paper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] intelligencer1598 courant1621 coranto1624 paper1642 mercury1643 newsletter1665 newspaper1667 slip1688 raga1734 news1738 gazetteer1742 sheet1754 news sheet1841 spread1848 linen-draper1857 newsprint1897 blat1932 linen1955 mimeo newspaper1973 1688 [see sense 10a]. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 417 It is said in one of the French slips, that they design to land some 1000 men in Scotland in May. 1699 (title) The London slip of news, both foreign and domestick. [Continued as, The London Post.] 1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Lardon, Supplement de la Gazette de Hollande, the Slip that comes from Holland with the Gazette. c. Insurance. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance policy > clause, document, or part of policy slip1816 suicide clause1826 suing and labouring clause1864 pink slip1901 cover letter1906 cover note1919 green card1955 satisfaction note1971 1816 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (1826) I. 603 The policy is preceded by a Slip, which is merely a jotting or short memorandum of the terms, to which the underwriters subscribe their initials. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 184 It is customary for the underwriter to sign a ‘slip’, or short memorandum of the insurance, until the stamped policy can be completed. d. Typography. A proof pulled on a long slip of paper, for revision before the type is made up into pages. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > galley-proof slip1818 galley-slip1889 galley1890 galley-proof1892 slip proof1892 page galley1918 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 250 Bate only the correcting in the slip Never was easier Conductorship. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xx. 169 The present work was set up in slips. 1878 Huxley in Life (1903) II. 253 I have received slips up to chap. ix. of Hume. 1880 J. Britten Old Country & Farming Words Introd. p. vii He has read the extracts in slip. 11. A certain quantity of yarn, etc. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > other measures or quantities of lease1391 lea1399 knotc1540 needleful1598 cut1632 winch1640 slip1647 spangle1705 vat1730 pad1746 heer1774 count1837 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A Slip of yarne, een stuck garens. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 308 A stone of the finest [wool]..will yield 32 slips of yarn, each containing 12 cuts. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester 322 Slip,..a hank of silk or yarn before it is wound on the quills or pirn. [Cf. slipping n.2 1.] ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > a cut or incision garse?c1225 chinea1387 slit1398 incisionc1400 slivingc1400 raising?a1425 scotchc1450 racec1500 tranchec1500 kerf?1523 hack1555 slash1580 hew1596 raze1596 incutting1598 slisha1616 scar1653 lancementa1655 slap1688 slip1688 nick1692 streak1725 sneck1768 snick1775 rut1785 sliver1806 overcut1874 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 20/2 In the pen there is the nick or slip or slit called the neb. Compoundsattributive. C1. In senses 1 – 3, as slip-graft, slip-plant; slip-pig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young farrowa700 grice?c1225 piga1250 hogling1377 porketa1555 porkling1561 porkin1570 swine shoat1581 hog-babe1610 hoglet1611 pigling1612 piggy1625 gruntling1686 porkrel1694 piggy-wiggy1766 griceling1782 boneen1827 slip1832 piglet1839 slip-pig1844 squeaker1861 piggy-wig1870 snork1891 snorker1891 1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 136 They have an innate spirit (from the seede..) which makes them grow better, then slip-plants, from woods or Roots of Trees. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Gardiner The Master Shoot of a slip Graft. 1844 in Caroline Fox Jrnls. (1882) 187 I have three cows, three slip pigs. 1882 Western Morning News 25 Nov. 1/5 Two large slip pigs. C2. In senses 6 – 10. slip-centre n. ΚΠ 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §249 Twenty-three slip centres to the arches (a slip of deal cut to the intended line of the soffit of the arch). slip-room n. ΚΠ 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xliii. 469 A bald-headed cobbler, who rented a small slip room in one of the upper galleries [in the Fleet]. slip-window n. ΚΠ 1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol II. i. xxiv. 110 A narrow strip of a chamber opening into the drawing-room only, and like it facing the street through a slip-window. C3. slip-chase n. ΚΠ 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 126 Slip chases, long narrow chases made specially for ‘heading’ work. slip-galley n. ΚΠ 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 1 Newspaper slip-galleys are made with either zinc or brass bottoms. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 126 Slip galley, a long galley the reverse of a quarto or square galley. slip proof n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > galley-proof slip1818 galley-slip1889 galley1890 galley-proof1892 slip proof1892 page galley1918 1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. iii. 37 Proofs are required in various stages, and have a distinct name in each stage, as follows:—‘slip’, or galley proofs [etc.]. 1908 W. S. Churchill Let. 8 Sept. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. 839 Messrs Hodder & Stoughton should let me have all the Strand articles up to date in slip proof as soon as possible. 1973 S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) i. vi. 99 Paging is a manual operation carried out by compositors... Each man has his share of slip proofs. slip-song n. ΚΠ 1878 J. W. Ebsworth Bagford Ballads 918 Much less rare are the Garlands and slip-songs which swell the volume to 918 leaves. slip-ticket n. ΚΠ 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxvi. 493 A slip ticket is a list, printed on a long strip of paper, of the persons..recommended by the same party or political group for the posts to be filled up at any election. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slipn.3 I. Senses relating to an inclined plane. 1. a. An artificial slope of stone or other solid material, built or made beside a navigable water to serve as a landing-place. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > landing-place strand1205 arrivala1450 slip1467 pow1481 arrivagea1500 landing-place1512 shore1512 landing1601 scale1682 bunder1698 gat1723 hard1728 loadberry1764 hardway1785 1467 Ordin. Worcester in Eng. Gilds 374 That the slippe and the keye, and the pavyment ther, be ouerseyn and repared. 1467 Ordin. Worcester in Eng. Gilds 397 That the keye Slippes, and the pavyment of the grete Slippe, be made in hast. 1475–6 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 312 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 That no..man..putte..fylth into the ryvere over no key nor slippe of the citie. 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 64 On the Key side next the City, there is a wall of stone..which no horse can enter,..unlesse at a slip or two. 1704 in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 291 I designed to build a granary on part of that slip that comes down to the dock. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 3 They came to the Slip, where one of the Horses broke his Traces and swam out. 1855 H. W. Longfellow My Lost Youth in Birds of Passage i. iii I remember the black wharves and the slips. 1885 E. P. Warren & C. F. M. Cleverly Wanderings ‘Beetle’ 71 We made for a ferry~slip, where the Commander and Doctor landed to forage. b. Shipbuilding. An inclined plane, sloping gradually down to the water, on which ships or other vessels are built or repaired.Hence Swedish slip, German slip, schlipp, schlippe. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired launch1711 slip1769 shipway1840 building-slip1846 slippery path1846 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Slip, a place lying with a gradual descent on the banks of a river convenient for ship building. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xiii. 371 No Slips, dry Docks, &c. for building or repairing Vessels shall be made. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 12 ‘Thus,’ said he, ‘will we build this ship! Lay square the blocks upon the slip’. 1894 Times 1 Mar. 7/5 At Chatham, where the largest of the available building slips is being prepared for the reception of the new vessel. c. A contrivance (patented in 1818) for hauling vessels out of the water in order to repair them. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > repair of ships > contrivance for hauling out vessel for repair slip1828 1828 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XVIII. 256 Slips have also been sent by Mr. Morton to France and Russia. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 470 Slips are the contrivance of the late Mr. Thomas Morton of Leith, and consist of a carriage or cradle working on an inclined railway [etc.]. 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] stairc1000 grece1382 grecingc1400 pairc1450 slip1480 pair, flight of stairs1556 scale1592 staircase1624 scalier1652 dancers1667 flight1703 stairway1767 apple(s) and pears1857 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 175 Item at the begynnyng of the bakk, there the fyrst gryse called a slypp, ben twey weyes, the fyrst wey ys the seyd slepe of..yerdes long. 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 218 Longitudo de ‘le slip’, anglice ‘a steyre’ de lapidibus.. a summitate viæ desuper le bak usque ad ultimum gradum. b. At Bath: A means of descending into one of the public baths (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > place to which invalids resort > spa > specific > means of descending into public baths slip1778 1778 Encycl. Brit. II. 1053/2 The person intending to bathe..is carried in a close chair..to one of the slips which open into the bath. There he descends by steps into the water. 1791 J. Collinson Hist. & Antiq. Somerset I. 40 There are slips by which the bathers descend, and adjoining to them are dressing-rooms. 1806 Guide to Watering Places 27 Sufficient fires..to be made in the slips,..and to be continued the usual hours of bathing. c. local. A narrow roadway or passage.Cf. slype n., and German schlippe (also schlupf, schlupfe). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] lane971 twitchenOE twitchelc1196 loaning1324 loan1362 stowc1440 strait1622 laning1638 slip1739 drong1787 loke1787 twittena1798 boreen1841 hutung1922 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 2 The Slip or Passage commonly call'd by the Name of Mathew's Causeway. 1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 22 Sept. in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. 427 Came through Dunning's Slip, where the river divides Dunning Mountains, and in a short distance passed through another Slip, which divides Turris Mountain. 1868 Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 12 Mar. The slip or roadway..down to the Parlor had always been a parish road. II. Something, especially a garment, that can be slipped on easily, and related uses. 3. a. A leash for a dog, etc., so contrived that the animal can readily be released; esp. one used for a couple of greyhounds in coursing, by which they can be let go simultaneously. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > place to exercise hounds > collars, leads, etc. linea1000 collar1377 torretc1386 dog collar1485 doghook1528 terret1530 slip1564 dogwhip1583 trash1611 shangan1787 puzzle-peg1789 puzzle1792 shangy1825 leading-strap1856 nosepiece1865 dog tag1882 lead1893 harness1895 silent whistle1923 standing iron1934 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 71 He hath a Lion in a chaine, on the one side, and a Fox in a slippe on the other side. 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. B4 I looke for a greyhound that hath broken my slip, & is run into this house. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 470 The lion was giuen vnto him..who led him vp and downe the streets in a leame or slip. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 69 Bind his hands behind him with a dog-slip. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Greyhound They must also be kept in a slip whilst they are abroad, until they can see their Course. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) II. vi. 60 His man walking all the way by his side, like a greyhound in a slip. 1816 Sporting Mag. 48 61 The dogs are now loosed from slips of a better construction than those formerly in use. 1839 Laws of Coursing in Youatt Dog (1845) App. 260 All courses shall be from slips, by a brace of greyhounds only. 1862 H. H. Dixon Scott & Sebright III. 254 Their talk is all of dogs..and fine young puppies coming forward or lost for ever to the slips. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > loop or noose latchetc1350 noosec1450 strop1481 slip1687 twitch1783 kinch1808 fank1825 slip-cord1847 loop1944 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 41 They use a certain Slip with a running-noose, which they can cast..about a Mans Neck, when they are within reach of him. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 535 The Students did not forbear to whisper among themselves, that..he sent up his soul to heaven thro a slip about his neck. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > cord or string string1154 cordc1305 loync1400 knittlea1425 chord1645 clew1660 slip1688 tie-cord1907 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqqv/2 A hempen slip, une corde. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) A Slip, (or Silk-string) Corde de Soye. d. Bookbinding. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > back > fastenings in back headband1611 band1699 raised bands1833 slip1875 saddle wire1876 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2211/2 Slip,..the end of the twine to which the sheets are sewed, serving to attach the book to the boards. 1894 Amer. Dict. Print. & Bookmaking 511 Slip, a cord used in fastening the back of a book. e. Nautical. (See quot. 1886.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun] > specific part of ruellec1400 nook?a1425 ingle-nook1773 area1839 living space1882 slip1886 cosy corner1894 bed-space1895 diner1907 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope for letting go quickly slip1886 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 604 Slips, ropes with toggles, shackles, and tongues, and various contrivances for letting go quickly. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > other slip1648 side-bit1825 shirt band1828 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Hooft-gat, the Hole or the Slip of a Shirt through which one puts his head. b. A child's pinafore or frock. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > pinafore dress slip1690 pinny1850 pinafore dress1895 pinafore frock1899 jumper suit1908 jumper dress1939 pinarette1951 jumper1967 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > pinafore > types of slip1690 tier1846 pinarette1951 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific people > other slip1690 jam1793 robe1799 hostess dress1951 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > other > for children waistcoat1538 slip1775 pelisse1805 barrow1878 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 417 Sport with them as children do with their slips, or as monkeys with their collars. 1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) III. lxxvii. 75 Her infants were habited in slips, or robes, evidently made by a maternal hand. c. An article of women's attire, formerly an outer garment, later worn under a gown of lace or similar material. Also transferred, an infant's garment of this nature. In 20th-century use, an underskirt or petticoat dependent from the waist or the shoulders and having no sleeves. Colloquial phrase your slip is showing: see show v. Phrases 21. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > other kirtlec893 viteroke?c1225 bleauntc1314 surcoata1330 paltock1353 courtepy1362 tunicle1377 gipona1387 juponc1400 petticoatc1425 wardecorpsc1440 placard1483 galbart1488 corsletc1500 truss1563 gippo1617 juste-au-corps1656 fore-belly1663 vest1666 justicoat1669 coat1670 amiculum1722 arba kanfot1738 slip1762 hap-warm1773 aba1792 Moldave1800 abaya1810 saya1811 tzitzit1816 cote-hardie1834 tobe1835 yelek1836 panties1845 cyclas1846 exomis1850 himation1850 jumper1853 blouse1861 peplum1866 exomion1875 confection1885 lammy1886 surquayne1887 bluey1888 fatigue-blouse1890 sling-jacket1900 top1902 sun top1934 sillapak1942 tank top1949 ao dai1961 tank1985 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underskirt wyliecoat1544 petticoata1616 under-petticoat1625 undercoat1740 dicky1753 slip1825 under-skirt1861 skirt1862 foundation1893 blouse slip1907 petti1915 skirty1922 slip-dress1964 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > underdress underdress1806 undergown1819 slip1904 fourreau1913 1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 i. 228/2 His..sister the princess,..drest also in a slip with hanging sleeves. 1780 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 527 The coat maker advises girts to be fastened on ye top of the stays,..wch will not appear, being under her slip. 1816 Medico-chirurg. Trans. VII. 480 His daughter was one day dressed in a pink slip. 1824 L.-M. Hawkins Annaline I. 206 A damsel arrayed in a green bonnet and yellow slip. 1825 H. Wilson Mem. II. 103 What do you call a slip? do you mean a petticoat, or an intrigue? 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Slip,..a woman's muslin or satin under-skirt or petticoat. 1897 Army & Navy Stores List Baby Linen—Infant's Long Slip... American Satin Slip. 1903 M. M. How to dress & what to Wear 185 Slips. This term is applicable either to a skirt or a bodice. A skirt slip is made of silk, satin, or even batiste, and is employed for wearing under a thin upper dress... Slips may, or may not, be provided with sleeves. 1904 Queen 30 Jan. 178/3 Entire lace gowns hung over chiffon slips made graceful toilettes. 1920 M. S. Woolman Clothing ix. 135 Slips or underfrocks with detachable sleeves have also been designed... Many of the slips are made without sewed-in lining. 1944 H. Croome You've gone Astray xv. 158 He glowered at Linda, sitting on the edge of the bed in her slip with one stocking off. 1957 J. Braine Room at Top xi. 109 She came over in her slip... She was already a different person in the blue silk garment. 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. vi. 85 In her slip and pants and garter belt and stockings she would lie down. d. A pillow-slip, pillow-case. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > pillow-case pillow-berec1387 codbere1411 bed-bere1420 bere1440 transomer1459 codware?1488 pillow coat1534 tow1535 ware1551–2 pillow-tye1558 pilliver1582 pillowcase1633 pillow cover1644 pillowslip1793 slip1800 1800 Naval Chron. 4 337 Pillows, and slips. 1977 New Yorker 27 June 72/3 What I want is my pillow... The slip is homemade. e. Upholstery. A slot-hem in which a wire or the like may be inserted. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > of a house > material for upholstering > specific type of hem slip1891 1891 in Cent. Dict. f. plural. In full bathing slips: bathing-drawers. (No longer in use.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > (suitable) for specific purpose > for swimming or bathing trunks1883 bathing-drawers1893 bathing trunks1895 bathing slips1904 Speedo1933 swimming trunks1943 bathers1945 cossie1958 baggies1962 jams1966 racer1969 1904 Times 11 Aug. 10/3 He wore a pair of bathing slips and a broad-brimmed white linen cap. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 62 Bathing togs consisted of a bathing suit and slips, a reduced type of bathing-drawers. 5. plural. The sidings of a theatrical stage, from which the scenery is slipped on, and where the actors stand before entering. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides side-scene1675 side wing1698 slips1771 prompt sidec1782 wing1790 side-slip1808 coulisse1819 prompt corner1872 tormentor1886 P1901 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 244 Printed sonnets, in praise of singers and dancers, were thrown from the slips. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 95 Soldiers will be stationed in the slips. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iv, in Fraser's Mag. June 725/2 She nodded to all her friends on the stage, in the slips. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xx. 189 Raddled old women who shudder at the slips. a. A division in a pocket-book. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title I. 69 An elegant pocket-book, the private slip in which was furnished with bank-notes. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > pocket salt-box1819 slip1819 poacher's pocket1908 book pocket1922 hare-pocket1925 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slip, the slash pocket in the skirt of a coat behind. 7. A cylindrical iron case, in which wood for making gunpowder is charred. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for making other articles > [noun] > gunpowder-making equipment mealing table1765 gloom-stove1839 slip1876 glazing-barrel1878 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 389/2 In each slip there are two holes, which correspond with similar holes in the retort. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 389/2 If of large size, the slip will hold 150 lbs. III. An act of slipping or evasion, and related uses. 8. a. to give (one) the slip, or variants of this: To evade or escape from (a person); to elude, steal off or slip away from unperceived. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > put into circulation [verb (transitive)] > pass counterfeits to give (one) the slip1567 output1576 to nail up for a slip1594 spring1686 smash1801 shove1859 drop1938 the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > escape from threat > escape unperceived to give (one) the slip1567 to slip through the net1902 the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a person or slip away from aglya1250 outsteala1325 glide?1510 slip1513 betrumpa1522 to give (one) the slip1567 to get by ——1601 outslip1616 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1653 elude1667 to tip (a person) the picks1673 bilk1679 to tip (a person) the pikes1688 to give one the drop1709 jouk1812 double1819 sneak1819 shirk1837 duck1896 1567 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 326 This sayd Faithfull gave them all the slipp, and never appeared afterwards. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. Dv Not satis-fied wyth the slippe he hath giuen the Vniuersities and Lawes of learning. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xliv. 661 Hee..gave him the faire slip, & escaped out of his hands. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xvi. 193 There he found means to give them all the slip. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 237 Salem gave his imperious Guests the Slip, and retired among his Arabs in the Country. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 284 He said he had rode the whole Way,..having given the Colbourn's the slip. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iii. 98 One of the principal officers of finance..had given the slip to his guards. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. iv. 107 [I] thought to put an end to myself, and so give my woes the slip. 1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 78 [They] discussed how the slip should be given to Mrs. Ede. ΚΠ 1596 H. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 231 I perceived two of his charge gave the slip. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxix. xli. 1050 Many of them..made not appearance, but gave the slip. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iv. 46 What counterfeit I pray you? Me: The slip the slip, can you not conceiue? View more context for this quotation 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. ii. sig. E2v Let the world thinke me a bad counterfeit, if I cannot giue him the slip at an instant. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) iii. 73 You have given me a nine-pence here, and I'll give you the slip for't. d. An act of evading or escaping; spec. in horsemanship (see quot. 16072). rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > other movements slip1607 the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > evasion or escape from threat > evasive action > an act of jouk1513 dodge1575 slip1607 jink1786 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 58 By giuing him slippes in winding and turning, seeke to ouer toile him. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 63 If hee come vpon your right hand,..hurle your horse roundly about vpon your left hand: this is cald a slippe. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 4 Feb. (1976) IX. 437 This morning I made a slip from the office to White-hall. 9. a. An act of slipping, sliding, or falling down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > slipping or sliding > an act of slide1596 slip1596 slither1861 skid1907 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > slipping and falling glenta1529 slipping1548 slip1596 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > other batting actions backing-up1816 slip1833 wrist-play1851 leg before1867 follow-through1891 gardening1897 wrist-work1898 whip1903 back-lift1912 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > slipping or sliding > an act of > specifically of a piece of metal or mechanism slip1888 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. sig. Ff2 At aduantage him at last he tooke, When his foote slipt (that slip he dearely rewd). View more context for this quotation 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pas Vn faux pas, a slip, or misse, in footing. a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 334 Not without many untoward slipps, which did much bruise us. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 200 By..some Slip of my Foot..I fell down. 1816 Sporting Mag. 48 61 A slip, is losing the foot. 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 44 The long stop..is required to cover many slips from the bat, both to the leg and the off-side. 1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. II. 376 A fop who has spoilt his fine clothes by a slip in the kennel. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 329 Slip, the sliding of riveted joints one over the other to such an extent as to be visible. 1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. iii. 37 Sometimes a page may be inadvertently squabbled in correcting, by a mere slip of the hand. 1950 Sci. News 15 143 The copper-rich oxide layer..acted as a lubricant between billet and container... This particular type of oxide layer seems to favour slip or slide of the metal under it. b. Proverb. (Cf. cup n. Phrases 1.) ΚΠ 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxiv. 332 There's many a slip between the cup and the lip! Who knows what may happen. 1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xv. 131 There are fewer slips between cup and lip in such matters in continental life. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 39 But yet befell a grievous slip Betwixt that fair cup and the lip. c. The difference between the pitch of a propeller (on a ship or aircraft) and the distance it moves through the ambient medium in one revolution. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > propeller > ratios, etc., of slip1844 slip angle1878 slip ratio1878 solidity1926 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > means of propulsion > [noun] > aircraft engine > propeller > difference between pitch and distance moved slip1910 1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 84/1 The amount of ‘slip’ of the screw in the water..was stated not to exceed 5 per cent. 1877 W. H. White Man. Naval Archit. 525 From 15 to 20 per cent. appears to be a fair average for the slip of paddle-wheels. 1895 Mod. Steam Eng. 78 A certain part of the advancing power is lost, which loss is called the slip of the screw. 1897 Strand Mag. June 719/1 After due allowance for slip..the actual length of the flight..was slightly over 3,000 ft. 1907 F. W. Lanchester Aerodynamics 299 The present theory enables us to define the slip of the propeller as the difference between the ordinates b d and a d, the slip ratio being represented by a b/ a d. 1910 C. C. Turner Aerial Navigation 315 Slip, the difference between the forward movement of the propellers if they were in a solid (as a bolt screws into a nut) and the actual forward motion of the air-craft driven by the propeller. 1910 R. W. A. Brewer Art of Aviation viii. 110 A certain amount of slip is necessary in order to obtain thrust. 1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 117 If a propeller has a pitch of, say, 10 feet, but actually advances, say, only 8 feet owing to slip, then it will be said to possess 20 per cent. slip. 1919 H. Shaw Text-bk. Aeronaut. xi. 144 If there were no slip the propeller would move forward a distance equal to the theoretical pitch during each revolution, and..no air would be driven backward by the propeller, and there would be no thrust. 1946 H. Rouse Elem. Mech. Fluids ix. 293 At peak efficiency the effective pitch of the propeller is somewhat below the geometric pitch, which results in a so-called ‘slip’ of the blades. 1965 C. N. Van Deventer Introd. Gen. Aeronaut. viii. 194/1 (caption) A comparison of geometric pitch with working pitch and slip. d. An act of slipping or stopping; an intermission. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation pause1440 trip1584 interpause1595 wem1599 stand1602 vacation1617 interspiration1623 intercisiona1631 interregnum1659 lapse1838 shutdown1857 break1878 slip1898 seventh-inning stretch1915 standoff1918 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 941 Recurrent slips unmistakeably indicate dilapidation of the heart. e. The sudden descent of material within a blast furnace. Cf. slipping n.1 1c. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > furnace > sudden descent of material slip1881 slipping1912 1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 305/2 A ‘slip’ (or sudden jerky motion downwards of a mass of material that had previously more or less ‘scaffolded’). 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 142 Under these circumstances the obstruction at a certain point frequently suddenly gives way, and descends with considerable force to the hearth, constituting what is known as a ‘slip’. 1911 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 83 587 The causes of accidents peculiar to blast-furnaces, especially explosions, slips, and break~outs. 1948 G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel I. x. 166 The sudden slip of cold solid material into a hotter zone..may result in serious explosions. 1969 K. R. Haley in J. H. Strassburger Blast Furnace II. xii. 592 A slip..causes wear on the lining. f. Movement relative to a solid surface of the fluid immediately adjacent to it. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > movement of flow > relative to solid surface slip1887 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 771/1 While greater surface than is offered by [a swimmer's] hands and feet was always given, with the evident intention of reducing ‘slip’, much resistance took place at the neutral or negative part of the stroke. 1891 Philos. Trans. 1890 (Royal Soc.) A. 181 560 From equation (i.) it follows that the effect of slip varies inversely as the radius of the tube. 1904 Reynolds in Physical Rev. 18 423 Between the pressures of ·6 and 20 millimeters of mercury the value of the coefficient of slip was found to be inversely proportional to the density of the gas and very nearly equal to the free path of the molecules. 1937 R. A. Dodge & M. J. Thompson Fluid Mech. xii. 308 The principal reason..is the fact that the hypothesis of zero slip at the boundary of the solid has been abandoned. 1967 R. S. Brodkey Phenomena of Fluid Motions vii. 91 If slip at the boundary were allowed, the flow rate would become Q = [etc.]. 1979 Nature 22 Mar. 350/2 Circumferential slip is essential if a helical object is to develop thrust in a true liquid, that is, if it is to propel itself using viscous forces. g. Electrical Engineering. The proportion by which the speed of an electric motor falls short of the speed of rotation of the magnetic flux inside it. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [noun] > induction motor > speed difference slip1893 1893 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 22 328 The machine has a frequency of 50 and a slip of 6 per cent. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 96/1 The frequency of this induced current is proportional to the ‘slip’ between the rotor and the revolving field of the stator. 1912 G. Kapp Electricity viii. 227 The speed at which the rotor winding is cut by the revolving field is only a few per cent. of the speed at starting. It is the difference between the speed of the revolving field and the speed of the rotor. This is technically termed the ‘slip’ of the motor. 1936 M. G. Say & E. N. Pink Performance & Design of Alternating Current Machines xii. 211 On no load the slip is generally less than..1 per cent. 1976 A. R. Daniels Introd. Electr. Machines vii. 122 The rotor is driven at a small slip with respect to the armature rotating m.m.f. h. Crystallography. The movement of one layer of ions over another in a stressed crystal. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > other reactions or processes > [noun] > slip slip1899 1899 Proc. Royal Soc. 65 86 The real character of the lines is apparent when the crystalline constitution of each grain is considered. They are not cracks, but slips along planes of cleavage or gliding planes. 1932 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 126 600 These results are in accord with the theory of deformation by slip. 1966 C. R. Tottle Sci. Engin. Materials iii. 64 In slip, a restricted number of planes are involved, and a restricted number of directions, so that whole areas of the crystal are affected. 1976 M. C. Nutt Metall. & Plastics for Engineers v. 70 Since metals deform by slip only on certain planes of atoms, it follows that anything that interferes with the slip process hardens the metal. i. The turning of one plate of a clutch relative to the other when they are in contact. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > transmission > clutch > slipping or spinning of slip1902 spinning1913 spin1919 1902 D. Salomons in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 95 On the road also, if a clutch does not act, due to slip, a small dose of water puts matters right at once if the mechanical portions are in order. 1925 Morris Owner's Man. 22 The more pressure there is on the foot-board the less pressure is available in the clutch, and consequently there is a danger of slip starting. 1976 C. Webb Be your own Car Mechanic vii. 96 When a clutch is worn it begins to slip. The slip generates heat and can cause the clutch spring or springs to lose their strength. j. Aeronautics. A movement of an aircraft that includes a sideways component, esp. downwards towards the centre of curvature of a turn. Cf. skid n. 4b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [noun] > sideslip side slipping1832 side-slip1910 skid1916 slip1916 1916 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper Learning to Fly v. 50 The machine being near the ground, it came into contact with the surface of the aerodrome before the ‘slip’ had time to develop any high rate of speed. 1929 B. Hall & J. J. Niles One Man's War 114 Our slip was a slow one. It would be impossible to come out of a fast slip because that was done by putting on the rudder nearest to the direction of the slip. 1930 R. Duncan Stunt Flying ix. 79 A slip sideways into a landing is invaluable if it is necessary to land in a small area. 1952 A. Y. Bramble Air-plane Flight xiii. 199 Some pilots use the term ‘slip’ loosely to mean a skid. It is important to note the difference. A side-slip may occur whilst flying straight or inwards during a turn, but ‘skidding’ of the machine can occur only during yawing motion, and strictly, is always in the direction outwards, away from the turn. 1965 C. N. Van Deventer Introd. Gen. Aeronaut. x. 233/2 Information on slip and turn is nearly always wanted at the same time. 1983 D. Stinton Design of Aeroplane xiii. 465 A spiral dive..is marked by increasing airspeed and, usually, no slip or skid. 10. a. An error in conduct; esp. an instance of moral fault or transgression. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [noun] > instance falla1225 scapec1440 lapse1582 slip1601 stumble1702 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > moral fall or lapse falla1225 scapec1440 surreption1536 prolapsion1581 lapse1582 slip1601 stumble1702 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > minor lapse1526 slip1601 lapsus1668 miscarriage1754 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 106 Peters fall. Abrahams slips. Salomons weaknesse, &c. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cxxx. 4 Annot.) 650/1 His pardoning of the frailties and slips of our lives. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 98 Let Christian's slips before he came hither..be a warning to those that come after. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 99. ¶2 A Slip in a Woman's Honour is irrecoverable. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. iv. v. 46 I hope, notwithstanding this fatal Slip, I do not appear to you in the Light of a Profligate. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. ii. 27 O'Brien, who then called to mind what a slip of decorum he had been guilty of, immediately rose. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 364 Eyes watching for any slip which might betray their antagonists to the powers of the law. b. A mistake or fault in procedure, argument, inference, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > false proposition, statement, etc. falsec1380 falsehood1393 falsity1557 paradox1570 slip1579 fallacy1590 falsism1835 unfact1887 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 42 Beyng not to..get out of so manifest a slip, he returneth the fault vpon me. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. G2 Only out of the affection I have for him, I would wish him to correct here one slip. 1700 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 136 Through that unhappy Slip of neglecting the Register, both Ship and Cargoe were condemned before my Arrival. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i, in Wks. (1825) III. 12 No advertency is sufficient to guard against slips and contradictions. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. v. 115 Since the hour that my policy made so perilous a slip, I cannot look at her without fear. 1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 527 There must be some error, some slip in the decision. c. A mistake or fault, esp. one of a slight or trivial character, inadvertently made in writing, speaking, etc.; an unintentional error or blunder. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > instance of scape1565 solecism1577 solœcophanes1583 slip1620 cacemphaton1622 acyrological1623 impropriety1685 incorrectnessa1771 Kiplingism1803 ingrammaticism1888 1620 J. Brinsley in tr. Virgil Eclogues Direct. to Schoolmaster sig. A4v Though the slips in this..be very many, the difficultie..may pleade for me. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. i. 44 Such slips are incident to the pennes of the best authours. 1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet xxxv. 59 It was an ill Slip, to put our Condemning them, for Commending them. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 285. ¶2 A good-natured Reader sometimes overlooks a little Slip even in the Grammar or Syntax. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. v. §xiv. 228 I will not however press this, since it seems to be merely a slip of the translators. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 449 I have commented upon very few, comparatively, of the slips which occur in his pages on this subject. 1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 827 An error arising from an accidental slip or omission. d. In the phrases a slip of the pen, a slip of the tongue, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [noun] > errors cacography1656 a slip of the pen1659 dittography1876 haplography1886 lapsus calami1893 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode > slip of the pen pen-slip1659 a slip of the pen1659 lapsus calami1893 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect speech > slip of the tongue lapse1526 lapsus linguae1668 a slip of the tongue1725 tripping1894 tongue-slip1913 1659 A. Cowley Let. to Ormonde 7 Oct. Hopeing that his Majesty..will pardon the slip of that man's pen in one expression. 1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica ii. i. xx. 153 I am apt to think that the Number..was originally the Transcriber's slip of the Pen. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 350 In Matters so sacred there is Danger in a Slip of the Tongue. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. iii. 10 Things once committed to writing, are secure from slips of memory. 1778 F. Burney Evelina II. xiii. 104 It was a slip of the tongue; I did not intend to say such a thing. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 42/1 A casual mistake, a slip of the press. 1849 Ld. Mahon in Croker Papers 31 Dec. (1884) III This second letter..is caused by the foolish slip of memory in my first. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 304 A slip of the pen, such as happens to real historians. 1906 H. C. Wyld Hist. Study Mother Tongue iv. 72 He at once perceives the difference [in his pronunciation], and ‘corrects’ the result as a ‘mistake’ or a ‘slip of the tongue’. 1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude viii. 314 ‘You said “Navy”.’.. ‘Slip of the tongue! I meant Gordon.’ 1939 G. B. Shaw In Good King Charles's Golden Days i. 13 ‘What did you call the gentleman, Mr Fox?’.. ‘A slip of the tongue, Mistress Basham.’ 1958 J. Wain Contenders vii. 151 The Canon was still beating down Robert's attempt to explain away that slip of the tongue. 1975 Economist 21 June 31/2 Transcripts of the call, accurate to the last slip of the tongue, have been sent to the magazine Stern. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > abortion > [noun] slipa1657 abortus1764 a1657 Harvey Opera (1766) 576 Nostrates false conceptions et slips nominant. 12. a. Geology. A slight fault or dislocation caused by the sinking of one section of the strata. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault trouble1672 dislocation1695 trap1719 trapping1758 slip1789 step1789 fault1796 throw1796 jump1842 nigger1886 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 9 The coal is thrown either up or down by one of those slips. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 11 In a slip the strata are all cut or broke asunder, frequently in a straight line. 1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 13 The projecting heights display, in various slips, precipitated strata of reddish clay. 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 203 The district is greatly traversed by faults or ‘slips’. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 226 Slip,..a smooth joint or crack in strata. b. The slipping or subsiding of a mass of earth, etc., from a higher level; the quantity of earth which has thus fallen; = landslip n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [noun] > movement under gravity or water land-rushc1550 slide1664 landslip1679 pitting1686 rockfall?1797 shoot1820 landslide1822 run1827 mountain slide1830 slip1838 slough1838 mudslide1848 founder1882 creep1889 soil-creep1897 rock creep1902 slump1905 solifluction1906 slumping1907 slopewash1938 sludging1946 mass wasting1951 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > of rocks or detritus shot-heuch1574 slide1664 scree1813 shot-brae1822 earthslide1829 talus1830 slip1838 rockslide1845 earthslip1859 landslip1872 spout1883 shingle-slip1900 slump1905 stone stripe1934 shingle slide1944 1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. ii. 10 These slips measuring altogether 4383 cube yards. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xiv. 303 The inhabitants thought that when the rains commenced far greater slips would happen. 1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 22 Should any slips take place in the cutting during the excavation of the material. c. Mechanics and Physics. = shear n.2 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > other specific types of stress shear1850 shear strain1856 bending stress1858 proof strain1858 proof stress1862 shearing stress1869 shear stress1872 water stress1895 slip1900 fibre stress1905 hoop stress1909 1900 J. A. Ewing & W. Rosenhain in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 193 362 When the metal is strained beyond its elastic limit, as say by a pull in the direction of the arrows, yielding takes place by finite amounts of slips at a limited number of places... They consequently show as dark lines or narrow bands extending over the polished surface in directions which depend on the intersection of the polished surface with the surfaces of slip. 13. Coursing. a. The act of letting a dog go in order to pursue a deer, hare, etc.; also, the length of the start given to the hare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > releasing hounds uncouplingc1369 allay1486 slip1602 throw-off1828 1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) ii. v. 108 The Buck broke gallantly: my great Swift being disaduantaged in his slip was at the first behinde. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 211/1 Length of Slip.—In all cases..the hare ought to have from 70 to 100 yards' law. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 213/2 An awkward or wilfully-bad slip is also guarded against. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > jerking > a jerk spang1513 lipe1545 job1560 jert1568 abraid1570 jerk1575 flirta1592 yark1610 slip1615 flerka1653 hitch1674 toss1676 hotch1721 saccade1728 surge1748 flip1821 snatch1822 fling1826 kick1835 chuckc1843 jolt1849 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. vii. 43 If after the turn be given, there shall be neither coat, slip, nor wrench extraordinary. 14. Cricket. a. One or other of the fielders who stand behind and on the off-side of the wicket to which the ball is bowled.For the origin of this use cf. quot. 1833 at sense 9a. ΚΠ 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 44 The situation for the [short] slip is between the wicket-keeper and point of the bat. 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 45 The long slip is generally placed between the short slip and point, and near enough to save the run. 1891 W. G. Grace Cricket vii. 216 Box's favourite hit was a smart cut between the slips. 1894 Times 25 May 11/2 With the total at 70 Mr. Murdoch played the ball into slip's hands. b. The ground or position occupied or guarded by these players. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > fielding position > specific bat's end1742 midwicket1744 middle wicket1772 long-stop1773 long field?1801 third man1801 point1816 slip1816 backstop1819 cover1836 long field on1837 short stopc1837 long on1843 middle-on1843 short leg1843 cover-point1846 square leg1849 long off1854 mid-off1865 leg slip1869 mid-on1870 cover-slip1891 box1911 gully1920 singular. plur.1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 101 His mode of cutting the ball into the slips..is..peculiar.1882 Daily Tel. 19 May Being caught in the slips when he had put on 29.1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 41 In backing up, he [sc. point] should give the man at the slip, sufficient room. 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 79 Each usually played in the slip when the other was not present. 1850 F. W. Lillywhite in F. Lillywhite Guide to Cricketers (ed. 3) 20 A third man in the slip at times is required. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xxi You should have seen Henderson caught at slip from a ‘skyer’. c. With qualifying words indicating the various positions in the slips, and the fieldsmen stationed there, as †extra slip, a man who stands outside second slip; third slip; first slip, the slip fielder who stands immediately to the right of the wicket-keeper (for a right-handed batter); his position; similarly, second (third, etc. slip), ranged in a line out from the wicket-keeper; leg slip: see leg slip n. 2; long slip: see long slip n. at long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4d; †middle slip, short third man; †short slip = first slip above. Also cover-slip n. 1 (Obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > fielders by position middle wicket1772 long-stop1773 second stop1773 stop1773 long fieldsman1790 long field?1801 third man1801 outscout1805 leg1816 point1816 slip1816 backstop1819 long fielder1835 long leg1835 long field off1837 short leg1843 square leg1849 cover-point1850 long-stopper1851 middle-off1851 cover-slip1854 long off1854 left fielder1860 short square1860 mid-off1865 extra cover (point)1867 deep-fielder1870 mid-on1870 cover1897 leg trap1897 infield1898 deep field1900 slipper1903 slip fieldsman1906 midwicket1909 infieldsman1910 slip-catcher1920 infielder1927 leg slip1956 1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 40 Whichever of the Eleven can best be spared is placed between the first Slip, and the man at the point. 1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 43 The Long Slip to cover the Short Slip. This man must stand to save a run, about the same distance from the Wicket as the Long Stop, in a line with the Striker, between the Point and the Short Slip. 1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 43 This man should stand the same distance, playing between the man at the point and second slip. 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field v. 75 A third man on, and a forward point,..with slow bowling, or an extra slip with fast, made a very strong field. 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field x. 193 A third man up, or a middle slip, is at times very killing. 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field xi. 222 A third slip up can hardly be spared. 1892 W. G. Grace in G. A. Hutchison Outdoor Games i. 26 Third man, who is, perhaps, rather a middle-slip, being long-slip placed in close enough to save the run. 1900 P. F. Warner Cricket in Many Climes iii. 45 I was missed at extra slip..when I had only made a few runs. 1921 P. F. Warner My Cricketing Life xii. 227 Jack was..a short slip of the same class as Tunnicliffe [, etc.]. 1955 Times 4 July 3/3 He swung the ball both ways, supported by a hostile, close-set field, Holliday taking two sharp low catches at first slip. 1976 Times 23 July 9/4 After adding 43 with Murray, Rowe was out to a tumbling catch at first slip; when Snow took over from Ward, Murray was well caught at second slip; when Willis came on, Holder gave third slip a catch. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1a.) slip-side n. ΚΠ 1906 N. Munro Daft Days xiii He..chased..the boys from the slip-side where they might fall in and drown themselves. b. (In sense 1b.) slip-dock n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2212/1 Slip~dock,..a dock whose floor slopes toward the water [etc.]. c. (In sense 2b.) slip-apartment n. ΚΠ 1791 J. Collinson Hist. & Antiq. Somerset I. 40 The hours of bathing are from six to nine.., during which time fires are kept in the slip apartments. d. (In sense 3.) slip-steward n. ΚΠ 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 203/2 The Slip-Steward, if there is one, regulates the proceedings of the dogs at the slips, and sees that the next brace is ready. 1887 H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 133 There was a coursing club, of which my husband was slip-steward. e. In (sense 3e). slip-toggle n. ΚΠ 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys 56 The main is..attached to the lower bowline-bridle with a slip-toggle. f. (In sense 4c.) slip-bodice n. ΚΠ 1897 Army & Navy Stores List 1226 Long Cloth Slip Bodices and Camisoles. slip-body n. Scottish ΚΠ 1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums viii. 73 When he grew out o' it, she made a slipbody o't for hersel. slip-dress n. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underskirt wyliecoat1544 petticoata1616 under-petticoat1625 undercoat1740 dicky1753 slip1825 under-skirt1861 skirt1862 foundation1893 blouse slip1907 petti1915 skirty1922 slip-dress1964 1964 Glamour May 149 Andrea wears a bare blue linen slip-dress. g. (In sense 12a.) slip-cleavage n. ΚΠ 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 226 Slip cleavage, the cleat of the coal running in planes parallel with slips. slip-dyke n. ΚΠ 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 32 There are indeed some dykes which throw the coal, etc. a little off the former level, and these I will, for distinction's sake, call slip dykes. slip-trouble n. ΚΠ 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 227 Slip-trouble. slip-vein n. ΚΠ 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 270 The slip veins are seldom wider above than below, but are generally narrower. h. (In sense 12c). slip-surface n. ΚΠ 1900 J. A. Ewing & W. Rosenhain in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 193 363 The sloping surfaces which mark the boundaries between the grains have not the sharply-defined boundaries ofslip-surfaces. i. (In sense 14.) slip-catch n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > catch or catching > types of gaper1903 slip-catch1903 lolly1924 slip-catching1950 alley-oop1965 1903 G. L. Jessop in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket v. 119 This range [of hits for practising catches] will include different kinds of chances, from ‘slip’ catches to catches in the long field. 1928 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 11/4 He then fell foul of a ball from Ashton, which ran away to the off, giving Nichols the opportunity to effect a slip catch. 1977 World of Cricket Monthly June 29/3 Raja took his third wicket through a slip-catch. slip-catcher n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > fielders by position middle wicket1772 long-stop1773 second stop1773 stop1773 long fieldsman1790 long field?1801 third man1801 outscout1805 leg1816 point1816 slip1816 backstop1819 long fielder1835 long leg1835 long field off1837 short leg1843 square leg1849 cover-point1850 long-stopper1851 middle-off1851 cover-slip1854 long off1854 left fielder1860 short square1860 mid-off1865 extra cover (point)1867 deep-fielder1870 mid-on1870 cover1897 leg trap1897 infield1898 deep field1900 slipper1903 slip fieldsman1906 midwicket1909 infieldsman1910 slip-catcher1920 infielder1927 leg slip1956 1920 R. H. Lyttelton & E. R. Wilson in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) vii. 268 As a slip catcher he was worthy to rank with R. E. and G. N. Foster. 1963 Times 17 Apr. 3/2 Downside are looking for proficient slip-catchers to give the required support to R. F. Thompson, a fast bowler, for whom they have high regard. slip-catching n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > catch or catching > types of gaper1903 slip-catch1903 lolly1924 slip-catching1950 alley-oop1965 1950 W. Hammond Cricketers' School vi. 64 His slip-catching is first-rate. slip-fielder n. ΚΠ 1912 P. F. Warner Eng. v. Austral. i. 2 The Committee..invited George Gunn, Woolley, and Mead, slip-fielders all of them. 1963 Times 13 June 3/5 The slip fielder is Titmus. slip-fielding n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > types of fielding long-stopping1832 outfielding1851 pointing1863 ground-fielding1884 groundwork1898 outwork1899 glovework1906 slip-fielding1906 1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer iv. 153 The possibilities of slip fielding are so very great. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 896/5 There are a number of mistakes of fact (the editors' slip-fielding is not infallible). slip fieldsman n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > fielders by position middle wicket1772 long-stop1773 second stop1773 stop1773 long fieldsman1790 long field?1801 third man1801 outscout1805 leg1816 point1816 slip1816 backstop1819 long fielder1835 long leg1835 long field off1837 short leg1843 square leg1849 cover-point1850 long-stopper1851 middle-off1851 cover-slip1854 long off1854 left fielder1860 short square1860 mid-off1865 extra cover (point)1867 deep-fielder1870 mid-on1870 cover1897 leg trap1897 infield1898 deep field1900 slipper1903 slip fieldsman1906 midwicket1909 infieldsman1910 slip-catcher1920 infielder1927 leg slip1956 1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer iv. 153 In degree it is true of all fieldsmen, yet it is more true of slip fieldsmen, that a position in the field is largely what the individual fieldsman cares to make it. 1920 G. L. Jessop in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) iv. 167 The importance of a slip fieldsman is only second to that of a wicket-keeper. C2. Special Combinations. slip angle n. (a) a parameter of a screw propeller (see quots. 1878, 1902); (b) Motoring (see quot. 19591). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > propeller > ratios, etc., of slip1844 slip angle1878 slip ratio1878 solidity1926 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > steering, suspension, or wheels > road wheel by which steering effected > difference in direction between car and wheels slip angle1878 1878 W. Froude in Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 19 50 The difference between the direction of the plane itself..and the direction of its motion through the water..may be called the slip angle. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 587/1 The slip angle (obliquity of surface to the line of its motion) ought always to have the same value (proportional to the square root of the coefficient of friction). 1936 Proc. Inst. Automobile Engineers 30 730 Almost every car over-steers to a certain extent. 1959 Manch. Guardian 27 July 2/3 The slip angle is the difference between the direction in which the wheels are pointing and the actual direction in which the car travels. 1959 Motor Man. (ed. 36) v. 147 When the slip angle is greater at the rear, the car oversteers (i.e. turns more sharply than the driver intends). slip band n. a slip line, or a cluster of such lines. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > sheet > lines of shear directions slip band1899 slip line1900 1899 Ewing & Rosenhain in Proc. Royal Soc. 65 87 Rotation of the stage to which the strained specimen is fixed makes the bands on one or another of the grains flash out successively, with kaleidoscopic effect. In what follows we shall speak of these lines as slip bands. 1903 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 200 242 The characteristic lines known as ‘slip-lines’ or ‘slip-bands’, which appear in ordinary testing when any portion of the material has passed its limit of elasticity under strain. 1906 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 666 Photo-micrographs of slip-bands in section. 1976 C. Bradshaw Metall. for Schools vi. 60 (caption) Photomicrograph showing slip bands formed on the surface of brass strip that has been stretched. slip face n. the steepest face of a sand dune, down which sand slips. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > sandy sand-wash1901 slip face1941 1941 R. A. Bagnold Physics of Blown Sand & Desert Dunes xiv. 224 The seif dune differs more markedly from the barchan in that its slip-face, instead of running mainly transverse to the prevailing wind, runs parallel with it. 1976 Nature 22 July 284/2 The beetles either burrowed into dune slipfaces when returned or remained active. slip flow n. in fluid dynamics, a mode of flow of a gas over a surface, the gas in contact with the surface having a definite velocity relative to it. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > specific modes of flow of gases slip flow1946 transition flow1950 1946 Hsue-Shen Tsien in Jrnl. Aeronaut. Sci. XIII. 654/2 It was found that gas no longer sticks to the surface but slips over the surface with a definite velocity... This type of flow can be called the slip flow. 1978 Jrnl. Fluid Mech. 85 731 (heading) Slip flow past a tangential flat plate at low Reynolds numbers. slip line n. (a) a fine line visible on a polished crystalline surface where it is cut by a slip plane; (b) a line in a solid whose tangent at any point is one of the shear directions at that point. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > other reactions or processes > [noun] > slip > plane where occurs > line showing slip line1900 the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > sheet > lines of shear directions slip band1899 slip line1900 1900 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 193 369 In gold or copper, it is very usual to find, on examining a strained specimen that one portion of a grain is covered with simple slip lines. 1903 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 200 242 The characteristic lines known as ‘slip-lines’ or ‘slip-bands’, which appear in ordinary testing when any portion of the material has passed its limit of elasticity under strain. 1906 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 661 The slip lines in cast metal are straight and regular. 1931 A. Nádai Plasticity xvii. 110 (caption) Helical slip lines on polished marble cylinder after compression. 1950 Sci. News 15 Pl. 16 (caption) Slip-lines in pure zinc after exposure to 50 thermal cycles between 30°C and 150°C (× 500). 1973 Johnson & Mellor Engin. Plasticity xii. 383 In order to determine the load necessary for a particular plastic forming operation, we must first of all obtain the slip-line field pattern. 1976 M. C. Nutt Metall. & Plastics for Engineers v. 66 In Fig. 5–2 the intersection of individual slip planes with the polished surface is observed, thus forming slip lines. slip plane n. a plane along which slip occurs in a crystal. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > other reactions or processes > [noun] > slip > plane where occurs slip plane1925 1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 112 87 The authors consider that the lowest value for tensile strength in an iron crystal will be obtained when two slip planes of the crystal make angles of 45° to the axis of stress. 1975 Nature 10 Apr. 489/1 Granular xenoliths..in which olivine and pyroxene show various strain effects, including undulose extinction.., slip-planes, and subgrain development. slip ratio n. the ratio of the slip of a propeller to its pitch. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > propeller > specific attributes of propellers pitch1853 adjustable pitch1858 slip ratio1878 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > propeller > ratios, etc., of slip1844 slip angle1878 slip ratio1878 solidity1926 1878 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 19 50 The area which will drive the ship with a given slip ratio, is directly as the ship's resistance and is inversely as the square of her speed. 1897 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 38 234 In all screws, of whatever slip ratio. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXVIII. 587/2 In combining the results from the four propellers great assistance was derived from the discovery that the curves expressing the variation of efficiency with slip-ratio had a close similarity. 1920 A. Fage Airscrews vi. 70 In the writer's opinion the notion of slip is superfluous; and the introduction of a slip-ratio as a performance parameter quite unnecessary. Draft additions 1993 More fully, gun slip. A case or holder for carrying a gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > gun-case or sling bendroll1598 holster1663 sling1711 gun-casea1762 gun-sling1812 shoulder holster1895 saddle scabbard1897 scabbard1923 gun slip1977 1977 Tackle & Guns Dec. 3/1 (advt.) Ranger economy gun slip. 1981 Sporting Gun Aug. 30/1 Features of the slip are a full length heavy duty nylon zip, sturdy carrying handle and snap-on shoulder strap. 1986 Air Gunner Sept. 37/2 The fleece-lined gun slip has a shoulder strap and two carrying handles. 1987 M. Paulet Shooting from Scratch iv. 83 Don't put a wet gun into a dry slip. Wipe it over first. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † slipn.4 Obsolete. a. A counterfeit coin. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun] > a false coin bad pennyc1400 countera1529 slip1592 black dog1665 swimmer1699 Brummagem1838 sinker1839 smasher1851 wrong 'un1899 wooden nickel1927 wrongo1937 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. E4 He went & got him a certaine slips, which are counterfeyt peeces of mony being brasse, & couered ouer with siluer, which the common people call slips. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 115 A counterfet peece of gold and a false peece of siluer (which we call a slip). 1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice in Wks. (Grosart) II. 5/2 So, their Folly flies abroad the World, like Slips, that shame their Mint. 1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 111 To take a slip for a currant piece, or brass for silver. b. to nail up for a slip, with reference to the exposure of spurious coin (cf. nail v. 1d). Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > put into circulation [verb (transitive)] > pass counterfeits to give (one) the slip1567 output1576 to nail up for a slip1594 spring1686 smash1801 shove1859 drop1938 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. sig. C2 I shall goe for siluer though, when you shall be nailed vp for slips. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iii. sig. B2 Your nose is a copper nose, and must be nail'd vp for a slip. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 108 But (here) they Naile him up, for a Slippe (a Brasen Counterfeit;) one, that did but say hee was a King. c. With punning allusion to slip n.3 8. ΚΠ 1618 M. Pring Acct. 18 Mar. in W. Foster Eng. Factories in India 1618–21 (1906) 32 Hee was desirous to ride before to showe his horse, which indeed was only to pay them with a slippe, for from that daie to this wee never heard more of him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † slipn.5 Obsolete. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > material used in dyeing woad ash1354 clavellated ashes1660 slip1667 white bath1791 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > shaving or chip > filings filing1398 swarf1566 swarth1596 slip1667 wheel-swarf1831 swaff1846 1667 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 296 The Filings of Steel, and such small particles of Edge-tools as are worn away upon the Grindstone, commonly called Slipp, is used to the same purpose in dying of Silks. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. i. 13 Some dyers..use..the powder found in the troughs of cutlers' grindstones. [Note] This is known among our workmen by the name of slippe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). slipv.1 I. Intransitive senses. (See also let v.1 28) * 1. To escape, get away, make off. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] atfareOE atcomec1220 atstertc1220 atrouta1250 ascape1250 astart1250 atblenchc1275 scapec1275 aschapec1300 fleec1300 ofscapea1325 escapec1330 overfleea1382 to get awaya1400 slipa1400 starta1400 skiftc1440 eschewc1450 withstartec1460 rida1470 chape1489 to flee (one's) touch?1515 evadea1522 betwynde?1534 to make out1558 outscape1562 outslip1600 to come off1630 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4001 If þou wil, sal i slip And fal noght in his hand grip. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1785 Segges slepande were slayne er þay slyppe myȝt. 1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxvi. 64 Lyndsay..tuik þair geir, and luit thame selfis slip. 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) App. 131 A motion that Fowles should be closely keept in, otherwise it is thought hee will slipp. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Slip, to run away. 2. To pass or go lightly or quietly; to move quickly and softly, without attracting notice; to glide or steal. Used with various adverbs and prepositions.In some cases the prominent idea is that of escape; more usually it is that of quick, easy motion. a. With away, off, out; from, out of. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > lightly or quietly slip?c1450 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away quietly or stealthily steal1154 to steal one's wayc1385 skew?a1400 astealc1400 fleetc1400 slip?c1450 shrink1530 flinch1563 shift1594 foist1603 shab1699 slope1851 smuggle1865 sneak1896 mope1914 to oil out1945 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > quietly or stealthily fleetc1400 slip?c1450 flinch1563 shift1594 slope1851 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5931 Gif þir theues away slipp, Ȝe haue grete los parfay. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/2 Who wolde ever have thought that a thefe coulde have slypped out here. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 40 Hold you my duitye so sclender, Too slip from Troytowne. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 44 There is no way to get out of the Church, except they slip out of the doores. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 214 When slipping from thy Mothers eye thou went'st Alone into the Temple. View more context for this quotation 1709 M. Prior Hans Carvel 24 So in a Morning..[she] Slipt sometimes out to Mrs. Thody's. 1773 Life N. Frowde 44 I took that opportunity to slip away. a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) xix. 309 I..might slip off sans cérémonie and proceed to join the Oxfordshire party. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xlix. 561 Some say he's slipped off, to join his friend abroad. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. v. viii. 212 So I came down stairs without any noise and slipped out. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 31 At the end of two or three hours..most of those present had slipped away for luncheon. b. With by, past, through, etc. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > softly or stealthily creepc1175 skulk?c1225 stealc1374 slipc1400 sneak1598 crawl1623 snake1848 slime1898 oil1925 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)] besteala725 snikec897 steal1154 creepc1175 skulk?c1225 snaker?c1225 stalkc1300 slenchc1330 lurka1375 slinkc1374 snokec1380 slide1382 slipc1400 mitchera1575 sneak1598 snake1818 sly1825 snoop1832 to steal one's way1847 sniggle1881 gumshoe1897 slime1898 pussyfoot1902 soft-foot1913 cat-foot1916 pussy1919 pussa1953 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 985 Þay slypped bi & syȝe hir not þat wern hir samen feres. a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 23 In the Spanish inquisition the protestants are examined, but the papists slip by. 1705 J. Collier Ess. Moral Subj.: Pt. III i. 16 That they should slip through Torture without Pain. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 174 There might be less danger of any of the enemy's ships slipping by unobserved. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous xii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 285 Bertram slipped clear of his English friend. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 157 Some idiot..who has somehow managed to slip past us in the race of life. c. With in, into. Also figurative, and in slang use to slip into, to give (one) a good blow or beating. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Joel ii. 9 They shal clymme vp vpon the houses, & slyppe in at the wyndowes like a thefe. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4703 Þai..Let sailes doune slide, slippit into botes. 1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta ii. iii Even now as I came home, he slipt me in. 1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. **3 When People crouded to see him, he would slip into the next Shop..to avoid them. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 30 He would slip into the Cellar, and gage the Casks. 1786 F. Burney Diary 25 July (1842) III. 33 I heard the King's voice. I slipped into my room; but he saw me. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. xi. 285 The strangers had slipped in before us. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. viii. 65 I'll have a chair for you... You can slip into it and say nothing to nobody. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. li. 292 If the voters are apathetic and let a bad man slip in, all may be lost till the next election. d. With back, home, over, to, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > pass over without adequate attention skip1412 slip1513 to run over ——1577 overtripa1583 scanta1616 slight1620 slur1660 slur1725 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. viii. 31 The weyngit messengeir..slippand come to thy moder. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxx They serued vnwyllyngly, and..forsakyng their enseignes, slyppe home euery man. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 128 If the formost be weary, then slippeth he backe to rest his head vpon the hindmost. 1664 W. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 315 You will hear of Lord Chamberlain from Kimbolton, who slipped thither last week. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 438 So having ben much wearied with my journey, I slip'd home. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 436 Then swift descending..[he] Slips to his hammock. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. vi. 241 [He] privily,..slips over to the Townhall to whisper a word. 1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston i. 17 Mrs. Waldo slipped to the door and peeped in. 1865 J. Hatton Bitter Sweets iii I'll slip up with some bread and milk for you. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (transitive)] > fall or sink into sleep slipc1400 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 244 As al were slypped vpon slepe so slaked hor loteȝ. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 186 He..Slypped vpon a sloumbe slepe. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2378 Sleghly on slepe I slypped be-lyue. b. To enter gradually or inadvertently into a theme, digression, opinion, etc. ΚΠ 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 206 I am not slipt into that Anabaptisticall conceit and tenet..that all warres were utterly unlawfull under the Gospel. 1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature iv. 119 I perceive I have slipped into a some~what long digression. c. To pass into a certain state. Also with off. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become yworthOE worthOE goOE becomec1175 come?a1200 waxc1220 charea1225 aworthc1275 makea1300 fallc1300 breedc1325 grow1340 strikea1375 yern1377 entera1382 turna1400 smitec1400 raxa1500 resolvea1500 to get into ——?1510 waxen1540 get1558 prove1560 proceed1578 befall1592 drop1654 evade1677 emerge1699 to turn out1740 to gain into1756 permute1864 slip1864 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 51 Which at a touch of light..Slipt into ashes and was found no more. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children ii. 18 She began to cry weakly, and at last slipped off into a dead faint. 4. To pass out of, escape from, the mind, memory, etc. Also without const. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > escape the memory, be forgotten slipa1340 to move of (also out of) mind?a1525 evanish1603 sink1603 elapse1762 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxviii. 93 It may noght slip out of my mynde. c1430 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems xviii. 46 Let me nat slippe out of thy remembrance. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 21 It will neuer let it sincke or slip out of minde. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 25 If I could a remembred a guilt counterfeit, thou couldst not haue slipt out of my contemplation. 1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 125 The experiments..were quite slipt out of my memory. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. v. 114 The Mind is ready to let many of them slip, unless some Pains and Labour be taken to fix them upon the Memory. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 15 The idea of her mother's presence seemed to have slipped from the unhappy girl's recollection. 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter 300 Important truths had slipped out of the consciousness of the Church. 5. a. To break or escape from a person, the tongue, lips, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > to sound (of voice or utterance) [verb (intransitive)] > to escape the lips slip?a1513 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 234 An blast of wind son fra hir slippis. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3891 Ector..warpit neuer worde of wrang with his mowthe. Ne sagh þat was vnsemond, slipped hym fro. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 20 Pain. You are rapt sir, in some worke, some Dedication... Poet. A thing slipt idlely from me. View more context for this quotation 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 39 Hasty rash words slip often from us inconsiderately. 1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 507 This last clause sure Slipped from him unawares. 1773 Life N. Frowde 42 The reply..slipp'd as glibly from my Tongue, as if in reality I had known no other [name]. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 24 I will not let his name Slip from my lips if I can help it. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xv Lest..he should let anything slip that might give a clue to the place or people. b. To leak out, become known. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed > inadvertently to get out1792 to leak out1832 slip1848 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiii. 572 When one side or the other had written any particularly spicy despatch, news of it was sure to slip out. 1942 T. Bailey Pink Camellia xxiv. 180 I didn't mean it, darling. It just slipped out. 1979 Homes & Gardens June 77/2 I always know if he's worried but he never tells me the details straight out. It sometimes slips out in conversation when the crisis is over and I think, Oh, that's what it was about. 6. Of time: To go by quickly or imperceptibly; to pass unmarked; to run. Chiefly with adverbs, as along, away, by. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [verb (intransitive)] > imperceptibly or unobserved glidea1325 slip1564 steal1592 escape1836 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 12 By little and little, tyme doe slip awaie. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 48 I neuer thought how some of that time is slipt away. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 190 Perceiving the day slipp'd away without any hope of relief. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) x. 312 The season for publishing it is slipt. 1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 93 Time slipped along. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xv. 146 As time was slipping by, and he had none to lose, he felt that he must act. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 26 Trying his truth..Till half-another year had slipt away. 7. a. To pass over (a subject or matter) without adequate attention or notice; to neglect, overlook. ΚΠ 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. viii. sig. Mm.viij/1 Last of all I will not slippe ouer this difference, althoughe it be of little weight. a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 70 That no man's matters should slightly be slipped over. 1676 M. Hale Medit. Lord's Prayer 138 in Contempl. Moral & Divine: 2nd Pt. Slipping over it in thy Prayer without a particular animadversion upon it. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §300 The circumstance might not have been slipped over, without my knowledge. b. To progress or travel across, down, over, a stretch of ground, etc., quickly. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > speedily rakeOE rekec1275 raikc1390 richc1400 freck1513 to hie it1620 whidc1730 scoot1758 spank1807 kilt1816 nip1825 slip1864 breeze1907 bomb1966 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 29 Yet unvext She slipt across the summer of the world. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. i. 31 No man seems on the whole to have slipped down the stream of life more smoothly. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 188 A ten-mile stage..having been slipped over. ** 8. a. Of the foot: = slide v. 8b. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > miss one's footing > slip > of the foot slipa1340 slittera1340 slide1340 to-slent14.. shoota1500 roll1878 a1340 R. Rolle Cant. in Psalter 520 I sall ȝeld þaim.. in tyme..þat þaire fote slipp. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xvi. 5 Ordre thou my goynges in thy pathes, that my fote steppes slippe not. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. sig. Ff2 His foote slipt (that slip he dearely rewd). View more context for this quotation 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Glisser Better the foot slip then the tongue trip. 1827 Willis Saturday Aft. 23 My feet slip up on the seedy floor. 1864 Law Times Rep. 10 719/2 His foot slipped and he fell into the street. b. To slide or glide, esp. on a smooth or slippery surface; to lose one's foothold; = slide v. 8. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide slidderc897 slidea950 slitherc1200 slep?a1400 slithec1450 slivec1450 rutsel1481 slip1530 slipper1585 glibber1598 slur1617 glide1674 slather1809 scoot1838 sluther1854 slade1895 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > miss one's footing > slip slide?c1225 glidec1290 slip1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/2 Syt nat there, I rede you, leste you slyppe downe or you beware. 1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 558 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 277 I saw him slip..Doun our þe stair. ?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. B2 From it (being moist, and slippie) she doth slipp, To thy faire Teeth. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 59 Suddenly he slipt downe forty steps or degrees. 1779 E. Clark Misc. Poems 193 Our wife yence slippit i' this sliddry gate. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond iii ‘Hadn't you better come into the carriage,..Mr. Preston?’.. ‘Oh, I'm sure I'll slip out, ma'm,’ says I. c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 581 As this spot was rather steep, and the ground moist.., he slipped down. c. To fall into mistake, fault, or error; to err, †to sin. Also with into (error, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > act wrongly or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > fall or lapse befallc897 fallOE slidea1000 slipc1340 scrithe1434 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 haltc900 marOE slidea1000 misfangOE missOE to have wough?c1225 misnimc1225 misrekec1275 mis-startc1275 err1303 to go wrongc1340 misgo1340 slipc1340 snapperc1380 forvay1390 to miss of ——c1395 to make a balkc1430 to run in ——1496 trip1509 fault1530 mistake1548 misreckon1584 misstep1605 warpa1616 solecize1627 hallucinate1652 nod1677 to go will1724 to fare astray (misliche, amiss)a1849 slip1890 skid1920 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > err linguistically [verb (intransitive)] slipc1340 stumble1530 solecize1627 barbarize1644 the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > of memory: err slip1891 (a) (b)1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 504 I may seeme to slip into an errour.1778 T. Tyrwhitt in T. Chatterton Poems by T. Rowley and Others (ed. 3) App. 321 It might seem invidious to point out living writers..who have slipped into the same mistake.c1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxviii. 1 Oure tonge..lightly..slippis, as we doe when we ga in skliþer way. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 83 It wer meruayl if he to so grete wrongis suld slype. 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme 64 b There liueth no mortall man that doth not oft slippe in doing his dutie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 471 I am sorry, one so learned, and so wise,..Should slip so grosselie. View more context for this quotation 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 34 Great Masters..slip sometimes unawares. 1658 O. Cromwell Speech 20 Jan. (Carlyle) Therefore it is that men yet slip, and engage themselves against God. a1702 J. Pomfret Love Triumphant 145 The best may slip, and the most cautious fall. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Jan. 4/2 Either Mr. Goldwin Smith's memory has slipped, or he has been..misreported. d. Originally U.S. With up: To fail; to make a mistake. Frequently const. on. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail in [verb (transitive)] slip1855 to fall down1873 to fink out on1966 tube1966 1855 Jrnl. Discourses 2 67/2 Some men think the way they are going to be saviors is to get as many wives as they can, and save them; now, they may slip up on that. 1856 B. Harte Dow's Flat iii He slipped up somehow On each thing thet he struck. 1866 Weekly New Mexican 14 July 2/1 The knowledge that he has ‘slipped up’ and been exposed is more than sufficient punishment for the offense. 1888 Cent. Mag. June 279/1 Slip up in my vernacular! How could I? I talked it when I was a boy with the other boys. 1923 C. J. Dutton Shadow on Glass xviii. 247 All of us slipped up. 1940 J. Reith Diary 31 Jan. (1975) v. 240 I wish I had been City member instead of Southampton. I slipped up on that. 1959 J. Verney Friday's Tunnel viii. 80 I couldn't help feeling that Daddy had slipped up pretty badly this time. 1981 A. Morice Men in her Death x. 108 Somewhere along the line I had slipped up. e. Of a person: to fall away from a standard (in behaviour or achievement); to deteriorate; to lose one's command of things. Chiefly as present participle. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition afalleOE wanec1000 fallOE ebba1420 to go backward?a1425 to go down?1440 decay1483 sink?a1513 delapsea1530 reel1529 decline1530 to go backwards1562 rue1576 droop1577 ruina1600 set1607 lapse1641 to lose ground1647 to go to pigs and whistles1794 to come (also go) down in the world1819 to peg out1852 to lose hold, one's balance1877 to go under1879 toboggan1887 slip1930 to turn down1936 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > fail to maintain a level of achievement to lose one's grip1861 slip1930 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara iii. in John Bull's Other Island 286 You are fencing, Euripides. You are weakening: your grip is slipping. 1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 18 Slipping, failing, ‘losing out’, ‘going under’.] 1930 Publishers' Weekly 22 Feb. 933/2 I must be slipping for I turned in a measly 78 on No. 4 in the Lenz-Rendel book. 1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xxvii. 242 I'm behaving very badly to-night, aren't I? I seem to be slipping. 1962 ‘E. Ferrars’ Busy Body ix. 104 He'd been slipping lately, drinking too much and boasting. 1976 H. MacInnes Agent in Place xiii. 137 The journalist was the first to know he was slipping; next his editors; and then the public. End of a career. 9. a. To move out of place with an easy sliding motion; to fail to hold or stick; to slide. to slip off the hooks: see hook n.1 Phrases 2e. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > become displaced [verb (intransitive)] > by sliding slip1382 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide > out of place slip1382 outslip1600 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > be loosened, unfastened, or undone [verb (intransitive)] > become loosely attached > fail to stick or hold adrillc1350 slip1382 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xix. 5 The yren, slipt of fro the haft, smytith his freend. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/2 I slyppe, as a thyng dothe that is thought to be tyed and holdeth nat faste, je me lasche. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/2 I can take no holde upon hym, my handes slyppeth so. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 173 A Garter..slipping off in a Dance, King Edward stooped and tooke it up. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. ii. 53 Fasten the Scale of Equal Parts, and the Scale to be made together, so as they may not slip. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 172 The Bark will be prevented slipping up, as it is very apt to do.., when the Sticks or Cuttings are forced into the Ground of themselves. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 605 It should have grooves crossing each other..to prevent the bones from slipping aside. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 157 My axe slipped out of my hand, and slid..away from me. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. iv. 249 The snow upon steep mountain-sides frequently slips and rolls down in avalanches. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxix. 398 The sudden movement uncovered the letters, which slipped down and strewed the carpet. b. To enter or fall into by slipping or losing hold. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > fall into by slipping slip1679 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall down (something) [verb (transitive)] > fall into slip1679 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 157 Lest with the Grain the edge of the Adz should slip too deep into the Board. 1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 22 A place where the bank has slipped into the river. c. intransitive and transitive. Aeronautics = side-slip v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > fly [verb (intransitive)] > sideslip side-slip1911 skid1911 slip1911 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > cause aircraft to move in specific manner bank1909 side-slip1911 slip1911 overbank1915 spin1918 yaw1920 hover1967 1911 Aero July (Suppl.) 2/2 The extra weight caused the machine to slide down sideways when steeply banked round the end corner. The Blériot slipped downward. 1930 R. Duncan Stunt Flying iii. 15 Side-slipping..enables the machine to be put down in a far shorter space than would be possible through a normal glide, forward speed being reduced to a minimum by slipping the air~plane sideways down to within a few feet of the ground. 1941 F. Pope & A. S. Otis Elements Aeronaut. iii. 19 If the banking is insufficient for such a turn, the plane will skid, and if the banking is too great, the plane will slip toward the inside of the curve. 1952 A. Y. Bramble Air-plane Flight xiii. 199 Slipping may be used deliberately with useful effect, providing the air-plane is of the type that may be ‘slipped’. 1965 C. N. Van Deventer Introd. Gen. Aeronaut. x. 233/2 If the ball moves in the direction of the turn, it indicates that the airplane is slipping toward the inside of the turn... If the ball moves in the opposite direction, the airplane is skidding toward the outside of the turn. 10. a. To glide or pass easily out of (or from) one's hand or grasp, through (or between) one's fingers , etc., so as to escape or be lost. In later use chiefly transferred. Frequently in to let (a thing, person, etc.) slip through one's fingers: to let go one's hold of (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)] adrillc1350 slip1390 to carry away1604 to go (etc.) down the drain1930 the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > escape from the clutches of slip1390 to clap, put, or keep the thumb on1481 to make a loose from1669 slip1898 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 72 In liknesse of an Eddre he slipte Out of his hond, and forth he skipte. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ix. f. 44v They slypped owte of their handes. 1606 W. Middleton Papisto-mastix xxiii. 152 Many things worthy to be [retracted], slipt through his fingers. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeee2/1 Hold her fast, she'll slip thorow your fingers like an Eel else. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Funerall Serm. Countesse of Carbery 8 We throw away our lives as if they were unprofitable,..we let our years slip through our fingers like water. 1668 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. Vanity (1685) 85 All our treasures are like quicksilver, which strangely slips between our fingers, when we think we hold it fastest. 1746 Rep. Conduct of Sir J. Cope 110 How this Person..slip'd out of his Hands. 1767 Hist. Harriot Fitzroy & Emilia Spencer II. 233 You have the man at present, and will take care not to let him slip through your fingers. a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) I. 132 Wealth by various means slips from the possessor's hands. 1807 Salmagundi 18 Apr. 146 So, between them both, the lady generally slipped through their fingers. 1853 G. P. R. James Agnes Sorel I. ii. 39 To exercise the authority in the land which slips from the grasp of the monarch. 1868 Scattered Nation Jan. 4/1 A Schlemiel always drops his bread on the buttered side, lets slip through his fingers any favourable chance. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. xcviii. 379 Not only has the direction of politics slipped in great measure from their hands [etc.]. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xlvii. 236 He was mad to have let such an adventure slip through his fingers. 1967 J. Stranack in Playwrights for Tomorrow ii. i. 198 Dorinda: And let him slip through my fingers? Not a chance. 1970 J. A. T. Robinson Christian Freedom in Permissive Society p. ix Try to net it [sc. the concept of freedom] in the categories of discursive knowledge,..it slips through your fingers, and you end up..by concluding that it does not exist. 2015 Sun (Nexis) 5 July 69 He let the chance to win slip through his fingers. b. Similarly with away, or without const. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Passer Good lucke vnheeded quickly slips away. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 503 Elizabeth did not suffer such a favourable opportunity to slip. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 22 The rhet'ric they display Shines as it runs, but, grasp'd at, slips away. c. to slip through the net: to evade detection or apprehension; to escape someone's vigilance; to be overlooked. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > escape from threat > escape unperceived to give (one) the slip1567 to slip through the net1902 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or negligent [verb (intransitive)] > omit doing or to do something through carelessness > commit an oversight > be overlooked to go by defaulta1638 to slip through the net1902 1902 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession p. xviii Nothing can really shake the confidence of the public in the Lord Chamberlain's department except a remorseless and unbowdlerized narration of the licentious fictions which slip through its net. 1970 Times 21 Feb. 7/5 All those in the ‘know’ in the underworld..maintain that it was a man who was never on trial but who slipped through the net. 1977 M. Drabble Ice Age i. 67 The real poor..were better off than they would have been in the thirties, for Britain is, after all, a welfare state, and not many slip through its net. 11. To allow oneself to drop or fall with an easy, gliding motion; to slide down. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly > down slip1470 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > allow oneself to drop down gradually or easily slip1470 sink1713 subside1809 lapse1889 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xl. 404 So whanne syr Dynas wente oute on huntynge she slypped doune by a tuell. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 151 Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 633 To slip by the board, to slip down by the ship's side. 12. Of rivers, etc.: To run smoothly or gently; to flow, glide; to pass into the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] runeOE flowa1000 fleetc1175 stretchc1275 slide1390 fleamc1465 pour1538 slip1596 streek1598 strain1612 put1670 rindle1863 slosha1953 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 208 It..falleth..to Robertsbridge..from whence it..soone after slippeth into the Sea. c1602 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Elegies ii. xiii. sig. D Swift Nile in his large channell slipping. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 192 The softer voice..of rills that slip Through the cleft rock. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 35 The silent water slipping from the hills. 1885 R. L. Stevenson Foreign Lands in Child's Garden of Verses iv To where the grown-up river slips Into the sea among the ships. 13. a. To get out of or into a garment, etc., in an easy or hurried manner. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > put on > in hasty or careless manner warpa1400 to throw ona1450 slip?a1513 slip1590 to steal on1649 huddle1697 slive1820 scuffle1844 a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 59 He schewre his feddreme, that was schene, And slippit owt of it full clene. 1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke ii. i Then my lord (like a snake) casts a suit every quarter which I slip into. 1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 206 Slipping into a pair of fur boots. 1893 ‘L. Keith’ 'Lisbeth II. ii He's slipping into a clean shirt as fast as he can. b. To slide in or into a socket, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > slip or glide in illapse1666 slip1816 1816 W. Scott Let. Jan. (1933) IV. 160 The thistle..is entirely detached in working from the figure & slips into a socket. 1859 M. I. O. Gascoigne Handbk. Turning (new ed.) 75 A groove, in which one end of the tool slide..slips and is firmly fixed..by a nut underneath. 14. a. To move easily and smoothly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > easily or freely slidec1374 runc1400 rolla1500 slip1680 lapse1798 shimmer1904 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly slidea950 scritheOE glidea1275 silec1400 swima1556 steal1626 slip1680 snoove1719 skate1775 sleek1818 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 179 So oft as the Workman has occasion to oyl the Centers of his Work, to make his work slip about the easier. 1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.I 3 The cord wheel slipping within its encircling cord. b. To admit of being taken off, or put on, by a slipping process. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > become displaced [verb (intransitive)] > be removed or taken away > admit of being slipped off slip1669 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > become uncovered [verb (intransitive)] > be lost as an outer layer slip1669 shell1676 to turn off1737 decorticate1805 exfoliate1807 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being put on slip1820 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 63 Before you paste your Paper on the form, first Tallow him, so will the Canvas and Paper slip off without starting or tearing. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 103 Boil your Beans, so that the Skins will slip off. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix*. 279 I am grown somewhat fatter..and my leathern coat slips not on so soon as it was wont. c. Of bark: To peel off. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > become uncovered [verb (intransitive)] > be lost as an outer layer > be lost as skin, husk, or bark > of bark: to strip easily run1731 slip1788 1788 S. Deane. Cutler Let. 19 May in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 388 I have had chairs bottomed with the rind [of basswood], which will slip finely in June. 1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 61 When the sap is rising, the bark of the smaller shoots of the lime-tree ‘slips’ easily. II. Transitive senses. * 15. a. To cause to move with a sliding motion; to draw or pull in this manner.In quot. 1850 probably suggested by Dutch slepen. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to slip or slide slip1513 slither1892 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 28 Full slyde scho slyppis hir membris our allquhayr. 1633 G. Herbert Praise in Temple vi After thou hadst slipt a drop From thy right eye. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1652 (1955) III. 70 I stuck a greate while ere' I could slip the cord over my wrist to my thumb. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Qv/2 Derober..to slip beans out of their skins. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 187 Their Bark must never be slip'd up at their putting into the Earth. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) vii. 77 Make every one knock that wants to come in. If they won't obey,..slip the bolt. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. vii. 149 I..despatched men with a span or team of oxen to slip the wildebeest to camp. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 161 One of the men slipped a brand from a bundle of wood. b. With off or on. (Cf. 2.) Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (reflexive)] > slip off slip1662 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in contact with a surface > by sliding slip1662 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (reflexive)] > be removed or taken away > slip off slip1662 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to slip or slide > down, off, over, etc. sleve1488 slip1662 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from the position of being on > smoothly slip1662 1662 R. Boyle Def. Doctr. Spring of Air 114 Since..such Surfaces are as easily slipt of, and extended in the end of the depression as in the beginning. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 188 On this Crook is slipt the Noose of a Leather Thong. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 197 A Cinnamon-Tree..bears none but its Bark, which Slips itself off every Year. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper ii. 20 Take the Cloth carefully off, and slip it on to your Dish. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. vi. 49 On the President's chair [can] be slipped this cover of velvet. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 360 The belts..could be slipped off the drum of the shaft..at pleasure. c. Scottish. To go or take (one's way) in a quick and quiet manner. With adverb complement. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground runeOE overcomeOE meteOE through-gangOE passc1300 to pass over ——c1300 overpassc1325 tracec1381 travela1393 traverse?a1400 travelc1400 measure?a1425 walkc1450 go1483 journey1531 peragrate1542 trade1548 overspin1553 overtrace1573 tract1579 progress1587 invade1590 waste1590 wear1596 march1606 void1608 recovera1625 expatiate1627 lustrate1721 do1795 slip1817 cover1818 clear1823 track1823 itinerate1830 betravel1852 to roll off1867 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ix. 196 I..came slipping my ways here to see what can be dune anent your affairs. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 9 As I were to..slip my ways hame again. d. Motoring. to slip (in) the clutch, to let in, release the clutch (clutch n.1 6a), slightly or momentarily. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > drive a motor vehicle > operate clutch or gears throw1804 to put in1902 to slip (in) the clutch1904 shift1910 to let in1933 double-clutch1938 to let out1958 1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist 214 When the brake lever is in the ‘on’ position, it is impossible to start the car by slipping in the clutch until it has been released. 1912 Motor Man. (ed. 14) 73 The metal clutch..can be ‘slipped’ to any extent without affecting the surface of the discs. 1965 R. Priestley & T. H. Wisdom Good Driving ix. 63 It is permissible [in reversing] to slip (feather) the clutch a little so as to maintain an even rate of travel. 1972 V. A. W. Hillier & F. W. Pittuck Fund. Motor Vehicle Technol. (ed. 2) 20 Most modern engines have a speed range from about 400 revolutions per minute..unless the clutch is partly disconnected or slipped. 16. a. To strip or take off (a garment, etc.); to cast (the skin, etc.). Occasionally with adverbs, as down, off. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing to do offeOE to lay downc1275 to weve offc1290 stripc1320 doffa1375 loose1382 ofdrawa1393 casta1400 to take offa1400 warpa1400 to cast offc1400 to catch offc1400 waivec1400 voidc1407 to put off?a1425 to wap offc1440 to lay from, offc1480 despoil1483 to pull offc1500 slip1535 devest1566 to shift off1567 daff1609 discuss1640 to lay off1699 strip1762 douse1780 shuffle1837 derobe1841 shed1858 skin1861 peel1888 pull1888 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of outer layer > strip of skin, husk, or bark > strip (skin, husk, or bark) flayc1320 pilla1387 slip1535 excoriate1547 slipe1781 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 2172 Slip doun ȝour hois. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 454 As a man slippeth off his clothes,..so we must slip off all our sins. 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. G3 The snake slips off his skinne. 1673 Humours Town 45 They ought now, like the Serpent, to slip their Skin. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) To slip (or pull) off ones Shoes, tirer ses Souliers. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xlvii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 75 When that, which breathes within the leaf, Could slip its bark and walk. 1901 J. Watson Life of Master ix. 87 He slips his past and puts on a new shape. b. To put on (an article of apparel) hastily or carelessly. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > put on > in hasty or careless manner warpa1400 to throw ona1450 slip?a1513 slip1590 to steal on1649 huddle1697 slive1820 scuffle1844 1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde (1592) H iij With that she slipt on her peticoat, and start vp. c1660 in Roxburghe Ballads (1886) VI. 213 Come slip on your slippers, and trip down the stairs. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqqv/3 To slip his Clothes on, s'habiller. 1773 Life N. Frowde 92 I jumped out of Bed, slipp'd my Coat on, and..called the Chamberlain. 1786 F. Burney Diary 20 July (1842) III. 24 I was obliged to slip on my morning gown,..and run away as fast as possible. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 157 Porteous might, however, have eluded the fury,..had he thought of slipping on some disguise. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. ix. 95 The watch-officer slips on his bear-skin. 17. To withdraw (one's head or neck) out of or from a collar, etc. Also figurative (cf. collar n. 8). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > escape > from specific type of bonds slip1583 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxv. 772 Albeit we..would slippe our heades out of the coler seeking to shift off ye matter. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 112 My burthened yoke, From which, euen here, I slippe my wearie necke. View more context for this quotation 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqqv/3 To slip his Neck out of the Collar. 18. a. To insert or introduce gently or surreptitiously. Const. in, into. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > indirectly or covertly shuffle1565 wind?1570 wriggle1599 insinuate1610 slidea1631 slip1688 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. at Couler To slip mony into his pocket. 1712 J. Arbuthnot App. to John Bull Still in Senses i. 9 He had try'd to slip a Powder into her Drink. 1748 H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's-Bay 136 When they want to lay their Child out of their Arms, they slip it into one of their Boots. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxii. 61 The choicest peach or orange was slipped into his pocket to give to her when he came back. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children iii. 19 He took the loose cushion..and slipped it under Lassie's head. b. Cards. To palm (a card); †absol., to cheat in this manner in playing. to slip the cut (see quot. 1879). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [verb (intransitive)] > methods of cheating swig1591 cog1592 slip1760 to top the deck1894 to deal seconds1951 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > cheat someone at cards [verb (transitive)] > methods of cheating pack1575 palm1671 spur1674 slip1807 stack1825 pass1859 stock1864 riffle1891 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > deal, shuffle, or cut cutc1555 swig1591 lift1599 misdeal1834 split1866 to slip the cut1879 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 27 I am..an adept in their science, can slip, shuffle, cog, or cut with the best of 'em. 1807 Sporting Mag. 29 197 Few could more dextrously slip a card or cog a die. 1840 W. C. Curteis Rep. Cases Eccl. Courts 1 414 (note) He..detected him slipping the king, commonly called ‘palming’, for the purpose of cheating..him. 1879 Sporting Exam. 19 Aug. 262 The usual method of slipping the cut is to pick up with your right hand the cards removed from the top of the pack, and place them in the open palm of your left hand [etc.]. c. To give quietly or slyly. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give secretly or surreptitiously stifle1604 slip1841 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > accomplish clandestinely [verb (transitive)] > give slip1841 1841 S. Hawkins Poems V. 25 The cannie lass whiles..slips me down a bit o' bread. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. v. 637 The Custom-house people..were pacified by slipping them a ducat. 1921 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xiv. 253 Bad medicine, son, believe me. They slipped us a Jonah this time. 1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape vii. 78 Man in de Moon, yuh look so wise, gimme de answer, huh? Slip me de inside dope. 1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 69 A woman had just slipped me a dime an' was standin' in the front door. 1935 Sat. Evening Post 26 Oct. 9/2 I'll slip you a workin'-press ducat. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xix. 210 You tell me..and I'll slip you that money you wanted. 1952 ‘N. Shute’ Far Country ix. 257 Jim must have known the man was a boozer, and he might have thought some of his mates would try to slip him something. 1968 P. H. Newby Something to answer For iii. 88 If it's money you want, give me a little time, I can slip you a few hundred. 1978 S. Brill Teamsters iv. 133 At one lunch, he testified, he slipped Provenzano $1,500. d. In slang phrase to slip (something) over (on) (someone), to take advantage of someone by trickery, to hoodwink; to slip a fast one over on (someone) = to pull or put over a fast one (see fast adj. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > act unjustly to [verb (transitive)] > take unfair advantage of to slip a fast one over on1912 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] jape1362 bejape1377 play1562 jugglea1592 dally1595 trick1595 bore1602 jadea1616 to fool off1631 top1663 whiska1669 hocus1675 to put a sham upon1677 sham1677 fun?1685 to put upon ——1687 rig1732 humbug1750 hum1751 to run a rig1764 hocus-pocus1774 cram1794 hoax1796 kid1811 string1819 to play off1821 skylark1823 frisk1825 stuff1844 lark1848 kiddy1851 soap1857 to play it (on)1864 spoof1889 to slip (something) over (on)1912 cod1941 to pull a person's chain1975 game1996 1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch iii. 63 I attempted to slip a fast one over on Cooley and got the ball a little too high. 1927 Daily Tel. 29 Mar. 10/7 If one only had the nerve and audacity one could ‘slip it over’ the German every time. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas v. 63 Can you imagine my lawyer letting them slip that over! 1960 ‘B. McCorquodale’ Price is Love iii. 53 It was something he really wanted to know and was trying to slip it over on her unexpectedly. 19. a. To cause to slip or lose hold; esp. to undo (a knot) in this way. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > loosen, unfasten, or untie [verb (transitive)] > loosen or weaken the attachment of > cause to lose hold unseize1575 slip1609 unclinga1711 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > loosen, unfasten, or untie [verb (transitive)] > untie > untie (a knot) enode1623 disjoin1633 inexplicate1653 renodate1656 slip1761 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 159 The bonds of heauen are slipt, dissolu'd and loosd. View more context for this quotation 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 74 Should but any one pin of it be misdriven, or the running of its least wheel slipt or jostled. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. x. 30 Tight, hard knots,..in which there is no quibbling provision made..to get them slipp'd and undone by. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. iii. 54 The manner in which my father slipt a knot, usually esteemed the strongest which binds society together. 1894 H. Caine Manxman v. v ‘Kate's knot,’ thought Pete... He slipped it, and opened the lid. b. To dislocate (a joint). to slip a disc: to sustain a ‘slipped disc’ (slipped adj.1 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > affect with disorder of joints [verb (transitive)] > dislocate unjointa1393 twist?1515 dislocate1608 dislock1609 luxate1623 to put out1640 lux1708 slip1728 to throw out1885 pop1914 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > have bone disorder [verb (intransitive)] > have disorder of vertebrae to slip a disc1958 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. xiii. 17 May my Pistols miss Fire, and my Mare slip her Shoulder while I am pursu'd, if I ever forsake thee! 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. i. viii. 70 Who rode against him, and sliped his shoulder. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxxvii My horse, I fear, has sliped his shoulder. 1868 Daily News 18 July This boar..slipped its hip last Saturday while it was being washed. 1958 ‘J. Byrom’ Or be he Dead v. 68 An unfortunate tramp who had slipped a disk. 1974 G. Mitchell Javelin for Jonah ii. 33 He told Margot to rake the long-jump pit..and she slipped a disc. c. To suffer an accidental slipping or sliding of (one's foot). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > miss (one's footing) > suffer slipping of (one's foot) slip1769 1769 Middlsx. Jrnl. 15–17 June 4/4 A carpenter..coming down stairs..slipped his foot and got..a desperate fall. 1813 Examiner 5 Apr. 215/2 A..man..unfortunately slipped his foot, and fell. 1874 M. E. Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World (1878) ii. vi. 365 He slipped his foot and fell. ** 20. ΘΚΠ the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > waste time leese?c1225 losea1340 defer1382 wastea1400 slip1435 consumea1500 superexpend1513 slow?1522 sloth1523 to fode forth1525 slack1548 dree1584 sleuth1584 confound1598 spenda1604 to fret out1608 to spin out1608 misplace1609 spend1614 tavern1628 devast1632 to drill away, on, outa1656 dulla1682 to dally away1685 squander1693 to linger awaya1704 dangle1727 dawdle1768 slim1812 diddle1826 to run out the clock1957 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 88 Woo be to þame qwhos days ar slippyd & passyd in vanite. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 82 Poor crauling Emmetts! in what busie toyle Wee slip away our Time? 1687 Honour of Taylors iv. 7 To slip no time, lest he should be anticeeded, he sits him down. b. To allow (an occasion, opportunity, etc.) to slip or pass by; to neglect or fail to take advantage of. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > provide occasion or opportunity [verb (transitive)] > miss an opportunity to let pass1530 pretermita1538 slipc1592 missa1628 outslip1652 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [verb (transitive)] > fail to take advantage of an opportunity waivec1400 slack1548 slipc1592 balka1616 c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta v. ii Slip not thine oportunity. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. xlvii. sig. I2 Here my sou'raigne to make longer stay..May slippe th' occasion, and incense their will. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 33 If this market be slipt, things may grow..deare. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 187 The consciousness of his own Guilt made him slip this fair occasion of traducing me. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 185 Advantages slipt in War are never recovered. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper I. 193 He could not slip the opportunity. 1831 R. Shennan Tales, Songs, & Misc. Poems 164 (E.D.D.) Then slip not the chance when it is in your power. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [verb (transitive)] > fail to take advantage of an opportunity > fail in keeping slipa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 46 He did command me to call timely on him, I haue almost slipt the houre. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 395 I slipt my Time. 21. a. To pass over, omit in speaking; to avoid mention or consideration of. Also with over. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > omit, pass over > in speaking, writing passa1425 missa1450 ferry1477 pretermit1542 silence1570 slip1607 reticence1833 to miss out1855 to skate over or round1928 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. i. sig. I3 I do slippe No action of my life, thus, but I quote it. View more context for this quotation 1612 J. Webster White Divel iv. i Some divines you might find foulded there; But that I slip them o're for conscience sake. ?1690 Vindic. New Eng. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 63 We had almost slipt the Notice of a Bawl or two these Libellers make about Damnifying their Church. 1748 G. Washington Jrnl. 25 Mar. in Writ. (1889) I. 3 Nothing remarkable on Thursday... So shall slip it. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxx. 188 Like an inconsiderate boy,..I slip the thoughts of life and death. View more context for this quotation b. To neglect; to omit or fail to prosecute, perform, employ, etc.; to skip, to miss. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > not do [verb (transitive)] > leave undone or fail to carry out letc900 overheaveOE forsakec1175 missa1350 leavea1375 fail1393 forgeta1400 omit?c1422 pretermit1475 neglect1533 to dispense with1559 permit1567 overrun1583 slip1592 default1649 to miss of ——1658 to fail of1723 1592 Arden of Feversham iii. ii Wert not a serious thing we go about, It should be slipt til I had fought with thee. 1620 Hist. Frier Rush sig. C4v I pray thee..briefly to make an end of thy enterprise, and slip it not. 1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 259 Our ministers are too negligent of such things: I have never slipt giving them warning. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 18 Feb. Whether it was usual now and then to slip a Lecture or so. 1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 183 He..changes, lends, extorses, cheats and grips, And no ae Turn of gainfu' Us'ry slips. *** 22. a. To elude or evade, esp. in a stealthy manner; to escape from; to give the slip to. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a person or slip away from aglya1250 outsteala1325 glide?1510 slip1513 betrumpa1522 to give (one) the slip1567 to get by ——1601 outslip1616 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1653 elude1667 to tip (a person) the picks1673 bilk1679 to tip (a person) the pikes1688 to give one the drop1709 jouk1812 double1819 sneak1819 shirk1837 duck1896 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. vi. 41 Bot lo! Panthus, slippit the Grekis speris,..Cummis like ane wod man to our ȝet rynning. 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. iii. sig. F3v Why wast not my inuention brother, To slip the Iudges. 1669 W. Penn No Cross, No Crown i. iii. §6 No, not a Thought must slip the Watch. 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend v. i He sees me; 'tis too late to slip him. 1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 107 To prevent the rebels slipping the Duke. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 198 That very night I slipped him while he was asleep, and got clear away. 1924 C. J. Tolley Mod. Golfer 7 When we went out for walks..we were allowed to slip our guards and go for all-day tramps in the pine woods. b. To pass by, get in front of; to outdistance. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > gain (ground) upon > catch up or overtake > outstrip to leave behinda1393 overgoc1425 preventa1500 outgo1530 out-trot1555 outstrip1567 stripa1592 outpacea1596 out-swift1606 to have (also get) the speed ofa1616 outstretcha1642 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1642 to gain bounds of1653 outrace1657 outspeed1661 to cast behind1681 distance1691 belag1721 repass1728 outfoot1740 outdistance1789 fore-reach1803 to have the foot of1832 to run away1843 slip1856 short-head1863 tine1871 forespeed1872 outrate1873 1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock xiii. 324 He had slipped all the rest of the field. 1896 Sportsman 10 July 3/8 The metropolitan crew managed to slip their doughty antagonists at the start. c. With up. To defraud or swindle; to disappoint. Australian slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons miscarry1602 to come off bluely1654 to buy the rabbit1807 flunk1823 to go wrong1827 slip1890 to fall (also go) by the wayside1898 crack1918 to go down the tube(s)1963 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > disappoint, frustrate [verb (transitive)] swikeOE beguile1483 deludea1513 disappointa1513 dispointa1513 forsake1526 betray1594 mock1600 frustrate1663 evade1692 elude1694 balk1735 to let down1795 slip1890 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 haltc900 marOE slidea1000 misfangOE missOE to have wough?c1225 misnimc1225 misrekec1275 mis-startc1275 err1303 to go wrongc1340 misgo1340 slipc1340 snapperc1380 forvay1390 to miss of ——c1395 to make a balkc1430 to run in ——1496 trip1509 fault1530 mistake1548 misreckon1584 misstep1605 warpa1616 solecize1627 hallucinate1652 nod1677 to go will1724 to fare astray (misliche, amiss)a1849 slip1890 skid1920 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > obtain fraudulently wilea1400 lurch1530 fox1596 shirk1635 rook1647 trick1662 pigeon1675 sharp1699 cheat1712 fob1792 snakea1861 wangle1888 slip1890 finagle1926 skuldug1936 swizz1961 1890 Argus (Melbourne) 9 Aug. 4/2 I'd only be slipped up if I trusted to them. 1891 N. Gould Double Event 92 It's deuced hard lines..to be slipped up like this. d. To escape from the grasp of (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > escape from the clutches of slip1390 to clap, put, or keep the thumb on1481 to make a loose from1669 slip1898 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 62 She swung the sword for centuries: in a day It slipped her. 23. To disengage oneself or get loose from (a collar, halter, etc.). Frequently figurative (cf. collar n. 8). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > from confinement or restraint breakc1300 slip1579 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 16 He can not slippe the coller with me as erst he did, in leauyng the former sentence. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. sig. C2 I hope you shall neuer slip string, but hang steddie. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 7 Mammonets..are tied by the hips that they slip not collar. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 309 They also fasten them..that, in case they should break or slip their Halters, they may not get away. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. i. 5 Hobgoblin..is like to play the devil in the world, if he can once slip the string. 1836 Uncle Philip's Conversat. Whale Fishery 38 [The whale] must be struck in the proper way or he will slip the harpoon. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. x. 393 Rascality has slipped its muzzle. 1890 Spectator 28 June An overworked man who has contrived for a week or two to slip the collar of professional responsibility. 24. To escape from (one's memory); to elude (one's notice, knowledge, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (transitive)] > escape the memory slip1653 escape1696 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > escape the attention of overpass1535 overslip1574 overscape1581 fly?1611 slip1653 to get away1811 miss1880 1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris xxvii. sig. Q4v Reasons..which have slipt my memory. 1709 E. Baynard Cold Baths ii. 188 Very few..remarkable Passages..of the Ancient..Writers slip your Observation. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 140 Several good Properties of this Tree having slip'd the Knowledge and Notice of Authors. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 126 Le Fleur..let as few occasions slip him as his master. 25. To pass or escape inadvertently from (the pen, tongue, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > incidentally or inadvertently > of words: escape from slip1751 1751 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 82 The word Hutcheson slipped my pen before I was aware. 1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 148 Weak words he has, that slip the nerveless tongue. **** 26. a. To allow to slip (from one's hand, etc.); to loosen one's hold or grasp of; to let go. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > releasing hold > let go (something held or grasped) [verb (transitive)] > let slip (a rope, etc.) slip1592 surge1769 1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. C3 Iacke all this while had an eye to the Bitch, and determined at last to slipt her haulter. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 82 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 108 He slipt the raines to east and southerne wind. 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 59 Caveating or Disengaging. Here you must..slip your Adversaries Sword, when you perceive him about to bind or secure yours. 1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. ii. 13 A pebble moved round in a sling..will fly off the moment it is set at liberty, by slipping one end of the sling-cord. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 104 These..slipped the ropes and did battle with their assailants. 1883 Law Times Rep. 49 332 The tow-rope of the tug was slipped. b. To allow to escape; to utter (†or commit) inadvertently. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [verb (transitive)] > utter > inadvertently escape?a1400 slipa1591 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > misconduct (one's life) [verb (transitive)] > fall into (sin or error) > commit a sin inadvertently slipa1591 a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 12 That they may forget themselves at such a time, and step too far, and slip a sin. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqqv/3 To slip out a Word, lâcher une Parole. 1723 Pres. State Russia II. 151 But I was drunk,..and I slipt those Words, trusting to my Servants. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. ix. 84 They once or twice mortified us sensibly by slipping out an oath. c. to slip one's breath or wind, to expire; to die. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 a1819 J. Wolcot Wks. (1830) 69 (Davies) And for their cats that happed to slip their breath, Old maids..might mourn. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xviii. 315 He thinks I am slipping my wind now—but I know better. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late I. x. 180 You give him the right stuff, doctor,..and he won't slip his wind this time. d. To emit, send out (light, etc.). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > shine [verb (transitive)] shedc1200 showa1400 yet?c1400 throw1565 reflex1590 emit1626 fling1637 projectc1645 strike1697 slip1873 shine1889 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 122 Each pullet-egg Of diamond, slipping flame from fifty slants. e. Knitting. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > knit > processes involved in purla1825 rib1837 to cast on1840 increase1840 slip1840 turn1846 toe1856 to knock over1875 to cast off1880 land1885 rep1951 raschel1970 1840 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant 13 Slip a stitch having wool in front, then pass the wool to the back under the left pin. 1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 14 To decide whether it should be done by knitting 2 loops together, or by slipping a loop (i.e. taking it off without knitting). 1926 E. K. Middleton New Knitting 15 To decrease two at a time. Slip one. Knit two together. Draw the slipped stitch over. 1951 E. Close Knitting ii. 29 Slip one stitch from the left hand to the right hand needle as if you were about to knit it. 1973 M. Stradal Knitting, Crochet & Looping i. 26 Slip one stitch purlwise, thread over needle and knit together the slipped stitch and the thread-over-needle of previous row. f. To detach (the end carriage or coach) from an express or non-stopping train while running, in order to allow passengers to get out at a certain station. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [verb (transitive)] > direct or manage a railway engine > specific operations work1835 shunt1845 flag1856 slip1866 whistle1869 sidetrack1872 signal1888 switch1891 target1893 highball1905 plunge1923 1866 Bradshaw's Railw. Guide Jan. 39 A carriage slipped at Slough at 10.45 aft. 1884 G.W.R. Time Tables July 48 Carriage slipped at Reading at 2.4. 1898 Daily News 11 Oct. 8/1 The Great Western..were slipping coaches in 1865. 27. a. To release (a greyhound or other dog, or a hawk) from a leash or slip. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > hunt with hounds [verb (transitive)] > release hounds uncouplec1330 to let slip1530 to cast off1602 decouple1602 unslip1611 slipa1616 unleash1671 to throw off1686 the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > release to cast off1602 slipa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 54 Oh sir, Lucentio slipt me like his Gray-hound. a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddddd2v/2 When they grow ripe for marriage They must be slipt like Hawkes. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxlix, in Poems (1878) IV. 88 The Age (it seemes)..broke in the Cell; Slipt her Rebellions, like rude Molaes forth. 1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd ii. i. 18 Indeed methinks they look as if they never Had been slip'd before. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Coursing The mungril greyhound, whose business it is to drive away the deer before the greyhounds are slip'd. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 126 The horsemen are instantly at full speed, having slipped the dogs. b. With after, at, or upon (game, etc.). ΚΠ 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 8 He has stood three or four courses already; the first..that was slipt at him made more hast than good speed. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Coursing If a proper deer come out, and it is suspected that the brace or leash of greyhounds slip'd after him, will not be able to kill him. 1816 W. Scott Let. 21 Dec. (1933) IV. 322 Maida is a little lame, but if he gets better I would like to slip him at a fox. 1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 177 Grey-hounds were slipped after such as were wounded. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 181 Our falcon yesterday, Who lost the hern we slipt her at. 1903 M. G. Gerard Leaves from Diaries vii. 213 A friend of mine saw thirteen of these dogs slipped upon a wounded tiger. c. To unyoke, release. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > unyoke unyokec1000 unteam1548 outspan1815 slip1859 1859 E. Capern Ballads & Songs (new ed.) 41 The ploughman slips his weary team. 28. a. Nautical. To allow (an anchor-cable, etc.) to run out, frequently with a buoy attached, when quitting an anchorage in haste; to drop or disengage (an anchor) in this way. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > slip anchor or mooring slip1667 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > loose (ship) from anchor > slip (anchor) slip1667 1681 London Gaz. No. 1643/1 The Tripolines slipped their Anchors and made what haste they could into the Port. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia A 4 b Found three anchors slipped in the Bay. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 353 She immediately slip'd her Cable, and put herself under Sail. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 173 Few of them lost any time in weighing their anchors, but either cut or slipped them. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 35 We made sail, slipped our cable,..and beat about, for four days. b. to slip one's cable, to die. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxix. 3 I told him [a doctor] as how I could slip my cable without his..assistance. 1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead I. Prol. ii. 35 Our poor friend, who has, as it were, slipped his cable before my arrival. 29. Of animals: To miscarry with; to drop, bring forth, or cast prematurely. Also transferred of persons. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > bear prematurely slink1640 slip1665 warpa1722 pick1777 1665 S. Pepys Diary 31 Mar. (1972) VI. 71 My Lady Castlemayne is sick again—people think, slipping her filly. 1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 536 As appears by the cows with calf not slipping their calves. 1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 52 These [dogs] have sometimes caused them [sows] to slip their pigs. 1827 Sport. Mag. 21 38 My grey mare had slipped a fine horse foal..and my best cow her calf. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 148 The cheese may swell, or the cows may slip their calf. ***** 30. Shipbuilding. To place (a boat) on a slip (slip n.3 1b) for inspection, repair, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > repair ship > put on slip or in dry dock dry-dock1882 slip1950 1950 H. M. Denham in Jrnl. Royal Cruising Club 1949 122 I got Korby slipped (only £4) and put on a coat of anti-fouling. 1964 Roving Commissions 1903 207 We crossed to Hermione in the hopes of finding a caique yard which would slip us for a reasonable fee to check up on the bump we received at Finike. 1975 R. Butler Where all Girls are Sweeter iii. 23 The boat looked new. Short of slipping her she was in prime condition. Draft additions 1993 With adverbial phrase: to drop or fall in value, etc. by the amount stated. Chiefly of share prices. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)] > diminish value of fall1564 embase1577 to pull down1607 impoverish1611 depreciate1656 to let down1870 slip1961 1961 U.S. News & World Rep. 22 May 109/1 Prices of those bonds have slipped a bit since then. 1971 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 1/4 The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 8.98 points to 836.38, its lowest closing level in more than nine months. 1979 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 18/4 Glaxo shed 6 to 428p and ICI and Beechams at 340p and 141p both slipped 2p. 1989 European Investor Feb. 70/2 The following day the shares slipped 2 per cent to 1357p. Draft additions 1993 Boxing. To avoid (a punch) by moving quickly to one side. Also intransitive or absol. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > actions lunge1809 weave1818 counter1857 lead1895 slip1897 unload1912 smother1916 to bob and weave1928 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > actions parry1672 punish1801 pink1810 shy1812 sling1812 mug1818 weave1818 prop1846 feint1857 counter1861 cross-counter1864 slip1897 hook1898 unload1912 to beat a person to the punch1923 mitt1930 tag1938 counterpunch1964 1889 E. B. Michell Boxing in W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 170 Another mode of shifting ground, more properly called ‘slipping’ is shown in Fig. VII.] 1897 R. G. Allanson-Winn Boxing iv. 29 Vary your defence as much as possible, so as to leave your antagonist in doubt as to whether you are going to guard, duck, or slip, in order to avoid his blow. 1901 G. B. Shaw Admirable Bashville ii. i. 304 Cashel was clearly groggy as he slipped the sailor. 1952 Amateur Boxing (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 24/2 (caption) Slipping a straight left and countering with right. 1986 World Boxing Sept. 37/1 He's learned how to slip a jab, and even though Green's jab is good, it isn't as good as a Pinklon Thomas jab. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). slipv.2ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > cover with metal [verb (transitive)] > slip slip1498 1498 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1869) IV. 142 xij coclearia argentea, Slipped in lez stalkes. 1538 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 81 ij spones of sylver slipped at the endes. 1549 Inv. Edw. VI in Jackson Hist. Eng. Plate (1911) 497 Fourtene Spones well gilt slipped at thendes. 2. a. To part (a slip or cutting) from a stock, stalk, or branch, esp. for the purpose of propagation; to divide (a plant, root, etc.) into slips. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [verb (intransitive)] > take cuttings slip1530 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > take cuttings from slip1530 slip1563 pipe?1755 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 721/2 I slyppe an herbe a [? read or] stryke slyppes of it, or leaves from the stalke. 1597 2nd Pt. Good Housew. Jewel B viij Put these..into an earthen pot with..Time and rosemary slipped. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 39 If he be little, slip him, and set him, perhaps he will take. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 157 The Branches also may be slipped and planted. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 93 Sow scorzonera salsfy, and slip skerrits of the last year's growth. 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 273 Burnet—may be planted and slipped. 1808 Ann. Reg., Chron. 67 When the plant had tillered, I took it up, and slipped or divided it into four sets of slips. b. With off or from. Also to cut, gather (a flower, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > take cuttings from slip1530 slip1563 pipe?1755 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 107 Then do the Gardners slip them off from the greater stalkes. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 55 The branches being slipped of and set in the spring. 1663 G. Williams Descr. Four Admirable Beasts 20 We can slip a cluster of Grapes from a Vine. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqqv/3 To slip off a Flower, cueillir une Fleur. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Skirrets The side roots should be slipped off with an eye or bud to each. 1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 81 I slipped off several off~sets from the heads of large plants. 1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 190 Leaves slipped off and planted in moist moss will root and become plants. c. In figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 75 When the flower of theyr youth (being slipped too young) shall fade before they be olde. 1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) II. vi. i. 111 Every branch which was slipped off from the primitive stock..would..take root, and grow into a separate clan. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (transitive)] > cheat foist1545 strike1586 stop1596 top1663 palm1671 slip1711 1711 J. Puckle Club 31 The Doctors, the Fulloms, Loaded Dice.., High-Slipt, Low-Slipt. [Note] Dice with their Edges polish'd off, so as to make them run high... Ditto, so as to make them run low. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slipv.3 rare. transitive. To paint or ornament (pottery) with slip. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > decorate china [verb (transitive)] > types of decoration slip1686 smudge1936 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 123 These also being dry, they then Slip or paint them with their severall sorts of Slip. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). slipv.4 1. transitive. To face with a slip of some material. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with a slip of some material slip1885 1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 353 The shelves and divisions..are slipped with rosewood on the fore edges. 1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 373 The proper way is to ‘slip’ them with good mahogany, at least ¼ in. thick. 2. To note or enter upon a slip or slips. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > write on specific things [verb (transitive)] > write on slip of paper slip1895 1895 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 7/2 He is sure to be near winning the first event for which he is ‘slipped’. 1902 Athenæum 23 Aug. 256/1 Miss Betham-Edwards's new story..is being ‘slipped’ by Dr. Wright..for his ‘Dialect Dictionary’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > see alsoalso refers to : slip-comb. form < see also |
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