Look up: slough

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   Slough
   A small muddy marshland or tidal waterway which usually connects other tidal areas.
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   slough
   [n] - a hollow filled with mud 2. [n] - a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) 3. [n] - any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
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   Slough
   Infected tissue that has died and separated from healthy tissue
   Found on http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/Arc
   
   
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   slough
   a slip of bank due to sloughing Category: The cosmos
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Slough
   Slough adjective Slow. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/124
   
   
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   Slough
   Slough noun [ Middle English slogh , slough , Anglo-Saxon slōh a hollow place; confer Middle High German slūch an abyss, gullet, German schlucken to swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug to swallow. Greek ............... to hiccough, to sob.] 1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/124
   
   
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   Slough
   Slough obsolete imperfect of Slee , to slay. Slew. Chaucer.
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   Slough
   Slough noun [ Middle English slugh , slouh ; confer Middle High German sl...ch the skin of a serpent, German schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle.] 1. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal. 2. (Medicine) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mort ...
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   Slough
   Slough intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sloughed ; present participle & verbal noun Sloughing .] (Medicine) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off , or away ; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/124
   
   
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    Slough
    Slough transitive verb To cast off; to discard as refuse. « New tint the plumage of the birds, And slough decay from grazing herds.» Emerson.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/124
    
    
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    slough
    <ecology> A wet place of deep mud or mire, a sluggish channel, a swamp, bog, or marsh, especially one that is part of an inlet or backwater. ... (19 Jan 1998) ...
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    slough
    noun any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
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    Slough
    `Slough` (; IPA ) is a Borough and unitary authority area within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. It is west of central London and 20 miles (32 km) east of Reading. At the time of the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 (est. 122,000 in 2006) and recorded as one of the most ethnically diverse local government districts in the United Kingdom. Slough is home to the Slough Trading Estate, the UK's first such estate, the la...
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    slough
    (sluf) a mass of dead tissue in, or cast out from, living tissue; see also gangrene. to shed or cast off.
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    Slough
    • (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification. • (a.) Slow. • (n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. • (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughin...
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    Slough
    town and unitary authority, geographic county of Berkshire, England. Most of the unitary authority lies within the historic county of ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/109
    
    
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    Slough
    Slough (slou) , city (1991 pop. 106,341) and borough, central England. After World War I, the residential city and its outlying area underwent rapid industrial development, owing in part to its proximity to London. Slough was the home of the astronomer William Herschel.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A084