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slipn.1

Brit. /slɪp/, U.S. /slɪp/
Forms: Old English slipa, Old English, Middle English slype, Old English, Middle English–1500s slyppe, Middle English slyp(p, slep, 1600s– slip.
Etymology: Old English (see sense 1), of doubtful form and obscure origin. Compare Norwegian slip, slipa slime, as on fish; German dialect schlipper curdled milk.
1. A soft semi-liquid mass. Obsolete.Cf. the second element in cowslip n. and oxlip n.
ΚΠ
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.
3. Mud, slime. Obsolete.
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.

Compounds

General 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

Brit. /slɪp/, U.S. /slɪp/
Forms: Middle English–1600s slippe, 1500s–1600s slipp, 1500s– slip; Middle English slyp, 1500s slyppe, sleppe.
Etymology: apparently < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slippe (Dutch and Flemish slip, Low German slipp, slippe, German schlippe, schlipfe) cut, slit, strip, lappet, skirt, etc. The first sense of the English word, however, is not recorded in any of these languages.
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.
a. The edge, skirt, or flap of a robe or garment. Obsolete. rare.
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.
in combination.1580 in Cripps Old Eng. Plate (1901) 281 Dosen spones, theis spones being sleppe endyd.1902 Westm. Gaz. 1 May 8/1 A set of James I. slip-top spoons.1908 Macquoid Plate Collector's Guide 103 Spoons called ‘slip-topped’ originated in the second half of the sixteenth century.
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.
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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.
b. A newspaper (or part of one) printed in the form of a long slip of paper. Obsolete.
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.]
12. A slit or cut. Obsolete. rare.
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.

Compounds

attributive.
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

Brit. /slɪp/, U.S. /slɪp/
Forms: Middle English slypp ( slepe), Middle English–1500s slyppe, Middle English–1600s slipp(e, Middle English– slip.
Etymology: < (or related to) slip v.1 Compare Old High German and Middle High German slipf (German dialect schlipf, also schlipfe) a sliding, slip, error, etc.
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.
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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.
a. A stairway. Obsolete. rare.
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.
in extended use.1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. xi. 156 He has never yet sent the Old Dessauer in upon them; always only keeps him on the slip, at Magdeburg.
b. A cord provided with a running knot; a noose. Obsolete.
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.
c. A cord or string. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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.
a. The neck-opening in a shirt. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
6.
a. A division in a pocket-book. Obsolete. rare.
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1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title I. 69 An elegant pocket-book, the private slip in which was furnished with bank-notes.
b. slang. (See quot. 1819) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
in extended use.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 207 If it is to give us the slip, after a sowing or two more, there will be but little chance left of our ever falling in with it again.
b. Without personal object. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
c. With punning allusion to slip n.4 Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
figurative.1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) v. 112 Bursts of great heart and slips in sensual mire.
b. Proverb. (Cf. cup n. Phrases 1.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
11. An abortion. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
b. A trip or jerk. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.
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’.
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.
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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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slipn.4

Etymology: Of obscure origin; perhaps a special use of slip n.3
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.
attributive.1618 T. Adams Happines of Church ii. 76 This is the worldlings folly, rather to take a piece of slip-coine in hand, then to trust God for the inualuable masse of glory.in extended use.1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. G2 Aie me, shee was but a counterfeit slip.1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia ii. sig. C7 She which thee deceaues With copper guilt is but a slip.1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight v. sig. I4 And it please your maiestie we haue brought you heere a slip a peece of false coine.
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

Forms: In 1600s slipp, 1700s slippe.
Etymology: apparently < older Flemish slip (Kilian), = Middle Low German slip , German schliff , †sliff , related to Flemish and Dutch slijpen to sharpen, polish, slipe v.1
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

Brit. /slɪp/, U.S. /slɪp/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s slyppe, slipp, Middle English–1600s slippe; Middle English slipe, Middle English–1500s slype.
Etymology: probably < Middle Low German slippen (Low German, Dutch, Flemish slippen , German schlippen ), = Old High German slipfan (Middle High German slipfen , German dialect schlipfen ) to slip, slide, glide, etc., related to the Old Norse strong verb sleppa (Norwegian and Icelandic sleppa ; in Swedish slippa and Danish slippe the vowel has been influenced by Low German). The stem slip- appears in Old English in the adjective slipor : see slipper adj.
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.
in extended use.1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Man. iii. ii. 324 These Nerves slip out of the Marrow about the Saddle of Sphœnoides.figurative.1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey 279 You must slip out of it some way.
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.
in extended use.1875 Daily Tel. 4 Aug. (Cassell) There is always a certain proportion of Bills which may be said to slip through both Houses.
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.
in extended use.1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §17 When unexpected accidents slip in, and unthought of occurrences intervene. View more context for this quotation1844 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Heath's Bk. Beauty 55 Curiosity slips in among you before the passions are awake.1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist iii. §2. 185 Huge assumptions have been allowed to slip into the process of the argument, and to vitiate the proof.slang.1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh (1894) 3 When you know how to use your fists,..slip into him.1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience ii. xi If you would oblige us all by slipping into Cabbage with a stick for half a minute.
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.
figurative.1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 245 Her memory..Went slipping back upon the golden days.
3.
a. With on or upon: To fall or sink into (sleep). Cf. slide v. 6a. Obsolete.
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.
figurative.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 111 He folowyth not the ordynance of god, but..blyndyd wyth ignorance flythe from hyt & slyppyth from hys owne dygnyte.1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo f. 3 He slippeth down presently into a dirtie comparison of a dutch Mule and an english mare.
c. To fall into mistake, fault, or error; to err, †to sin. Also with into (error, etc.).
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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)
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.
(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.
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.
in extended use.1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. xx Yet they [sc. vibrations] slipt along In silent ease.
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.
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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.
figurative.1795 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 117 Having therefore slipped the persons, with whom we are to treat, out of view.
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.
in extended use.1837 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 155 A —— quoted all the old divines, and I slipped in texts.1900 H. Lawson On Track 55 The time when he slipped three leaden pills into ‘Blue Shirt’ for winking at a new chum behind his..back.
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.
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20.
a. To allow to pass idly or unprofitably; to waste or lose (time). Obsolete.
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.
c. To fail in keeping (a prescribed time). Obsolete.
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.
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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.
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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.
figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. iii. 22 Wee'l slip you for a season, but our iealousie Do's yet depend. View more context for this quotation
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.
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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.
absolute.1893 Times 18 Dec. 10/3 W. slipped well.1904 Field 6 Feb. 220/2 Wright I have rarely seen slip better.
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.
figurative.1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode ii. i. 19 I am going to slip the Boy at a Mistress.1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 182/2 The Roman army hungered..to be unmuzzled and slipped upon these false friends.
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.
absolute.1667 London Gaz. No. 203/4 One of them..was forced to come to an Anchor, but the night proving stormy obliged her to slip.1683 London Gaz. No. 1787/4 Several other Vessels in this bad Weather slipt, and went to Sea.1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §226 The Weston..was therefore ordered to slip and make her best port.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xviii. 171 Vessels are obliged to slip and run for their lives on the first sign of a gale.
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.
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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.

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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.

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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.2

Brit. /slɪp/, U.S. /slɪp/
Forms: Also 1500s slyppe.
Etymology: < Middle Flemish or Middle Low German slippen (Low German slippen, Middle Swedish slippa; obsolete German schlipfen), to cut, incise, cleave, etc.
1. transitive. To cut (a spoon-handle) obliquely at the end. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
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.
absolute.1614 N. Breton I would, & would Not xxxviii I would I were a Gardiner, and had skill To digge and rake, and plant, and sowe, and slippe.
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.
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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.
3. Dicing. (See quot. 1711) Obsolete.
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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

Etymology: < slip n.1 4.
rare.
transitive. To paint or ornament (pottery) with slip.
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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

Etymology: < slip n.2
1. transitive. To face with a slip of some material.
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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.
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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).

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