Look up: slough

1. Slough
   A small muddy marshland or tidal waterway which usually connects other tidal areas.
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2. 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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3. Slough
   Infected tissue that has died and separated from healthy tissue
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4. slough
   a slip of bank due to sloughing Category: The cosmos
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5. Slough
   Slough adjective Slow. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
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6. 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. dit...
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7. Slough
   Slough obsolete imperfect of Slee , to slay. Slew. Chaucer.
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8. 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 ...
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9. 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 fr...
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10. 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.
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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 tissue...
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15. Slough
    town and unitary authority, geographic county of Berkshire, England. Most of the unitary authority lies within the historic county of ...
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16. 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.
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17. Slough
    Slough is slang for imprison.
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18. Slough
    Slough is slang for imprison.
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19. slough
    Type: Term Pronunciation: slŭf Definitions: 1. Necrotic tissue separated from the living structure. 2. To separate from the living tissue, said of a dead or necrotic part.
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20. Slough
    (town) Industrial town and administrative centre of Slough unitary authority in southern England, 32 km/20 mi west of London; population (2001) 126,300. Industries include pharmaceuticals, electronics, engineering, aviation support services, and the manufacture of chocolate, paint, and...
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21. slough
    (?) (say: sluf) a tract of soft muddy ground. A marshy or reed-covered pool, pond or inlet. To slough to collapse or slide into a depression.
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22. slough
    v. to shed skin [applied to snakes]
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23. Slough
    `Slough` () is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. The town straddles the Great West Road and the 0--> west of central London. At the 2001 census, the Demography of Slough|population of Slough was 119,070 (est.&nbsp;122,000 in 2006) and the borough...
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24. Slough
    (UK Parliament constituency) `Slough` is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Boundaries: The constituency was created in 1983 and covers part ...
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25. Slough
    (poem) `"Slough"` is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in the 1937 collection Continual Dew. It was written in protest against 850 factories that were to be built in the English town of Slough. The poem caused an uproar when first published. However, on ...
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