† sluden.
Obsolete. rare.
Russian mica in thin transparent plates.
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specular stone1577
cat-silver1585
slude1591
hammochrysos1706
cat-gold1762
micarelle1794
phyllite1828
damourite1846
roscoelite1876
micarellite1885
scyelite1885
taeniolite1899
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iii. f. 10v In the prouince of Corelia..there groweth a soft rocke which they call Slude. This they cut into pieces,..and so vse it for glasse-lanthorns and such like.
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies 45 This needle and semicircle would be covered with some glasse and slude, as dials use to be covered.
1662 Irel., Statutes at Large (1765) II. 407 Muscovy glass or slude the pound, 2s.
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