Slime (?), n. [OE. slim, AS. slim; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. slimen to make smooth, Icel. slim slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. ; or cf. L. limus mud.]
1.
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
Shak.
2.
Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3. Script.
Bitumen.
[Archaic]
Slime had they for mortar.
Gen. xi. 3.
4. pl. Mining
Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
Pryce.
5. Physiol.
A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
Goldsmith.
Slime eel. Zool. See 1st Hag, 4. -- Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
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Slime (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.]
To smear with slime.
Tennyson.
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