slime : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: slime	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for slime
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slime n any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze] v cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slime \Slime\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slimed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sliming}.] To smear with slime. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slime \Slime\, n. [OE. slim, AS. sl[c6]m; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. sl[c6]men to make smooth, Icel. sl[c6]m 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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Slime (Gen. 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits (14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark of bulrushes" with slime (Ex. 2:3). (See {PITCH}.)