ion,
scandal, abuse, traducement, backbiting, roorback, vituperation.

slanderous, a. defamatory, malicious, vituperative, calumnious,
libellous.

slant, n. slope, incline, inclination, obliquity.--v. slope,
incline.

slanting, a. sloping, oblique, slant.--n. obliquity,
inclination, tilt.

slap, n. cuff, buffet.--v. box, cuff, buffet.

slap, adv. (Colloq.) suddenly, violently, unceremoniously,
instantly.

slap-dash, adv. (Colloq.) carelessly, at random, all at once.

slash, n. incision, gash, cut, slit.

slate, n. argillite, argillaceous schist; grapholite.--v.
enroll, register.

slated, a. registered, enrolled (for an appointment).

slattern, n. draggle-tail, drab, trollop, niopsy, malkin,
drabble-tail.

slatternly, a. slattern, untidy, draggle-tailed.

slaughter, n. butchery. See killing.

slaughter-house, n. abattoir, shambles.

slave, n. vassal, bond servant, bondslave, bondman, thrall, serf,
captive, helot; drudge. Associated Words: abolitionism, abolitionist,
blackbird, maroon.

slave, v. drudge, toil, moil.

slavery, n. bondage, enslavement, servitude, inthrallment, captivity,
bond service, vassalage, thralldom, subjection, helotism; drudgery.

slave warehouse. barracoon.

slavish, a. servile, menial, abject, groveling.

sleazy, a. flimsy, thin, gauzy.

sled, n. sleigh, sledge, toboggan.

sleek, a. smooth, glossy.

sleek, adv. (Low) easily, dexterously.

sleep, v. slumber, repose; doze, drowse; lie dormant; hibernate;
lodge.

sleep, n. slumber, repose; nap, doze, drowse, snooze, dozing; siesta;
dormancy, lethargy; trance; sopor, coma, carus; somnipathy, somnolism;
dogsleep. Associated Words: hypnology, hypnotic, agrypnotic, hypnosis,
hypnotism, narcotic, opiate, dwale, somniloquence, somniloquism, somnial,
somniferous, hypnophobia, hypnogogic, stupefacient, mesmeric, soporific,
dormitive, soporiferous, soporous, somnific, somnolent, somniloquous,
antihypnotic, morphean, oversleep, morphine, narcosis, lullaby,
incubation, hypnogenic, Mara, Morpheus, Hypnos, Somnus, dormitory,
diurnation, cubicle, insomniac, hibernation, somnipathist, somniloquist,
agrypnia, wake, awaken.

sleeper, n. slumberer; drone, sluggard; tie; joist.

sleepiness, n. drowsiness, somnolence.

sleeping, a. asleep, slumbering, dormant.

sleepless, a. wakeful, insomnious, insomnolent.

sleeplessness, n. wakefulness, insomnia, insomnolence.

sleep of plants. nyctitropism. Associated Word: nyctitropic.