Slough definitions

Slough

1) Backwater 2) Discard 3) English architecture 4) Gangrene 5) Jettison 6) Necrotic tissue 7) Pathology 8) Place of deep mud 9) Slang for imprison 10) Sphacelus 11) Stagnant swamp 12) State of deep despair 13) Swamp 14) Town in Berkshire
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Slough

1) Bog 2) Desquamate 3) Exuviate 4) Fen 5) Gangrene 6) Marsh 7) Mire 8) Morass 9) Shed 10) Sphacelus
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Slough

==History== The first recorded uses of the name occur as Slo in 1196, Sloo in 1336, and Le Slowe, Slowe or Slow in 1437. It first seems to have applied to a hamlet between Upton to the east and Chalvey to the west, roughly around the `Crown Crossroads` where the road to Windsor (now the A332) met the Great West Road. The Domesday Survey of 1086 .....
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Slough

[poem] `Slough` is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in the 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II. The sudden appearance of this `Trading Estate`, which...
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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

A long, narrow stretch of water such as a small stream or feeder tributary off a lake or river.
Found on http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/fishing_glossary.shtml

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Slough

A long, narrow stretch of water such as a small stream or feeder tributary off a lake or river.
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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

<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) ...
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973

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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.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

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Slough

A shallow backwater inlet that is commonly exposed at low tide.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21804

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Slough

Infected tissue that has died and separated from healthy tissue
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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 ..............
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

Slough obsolete imperfect of Slee , to slay. Slew. Chaucer.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/124

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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
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/124

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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.
Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=82515

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Slough

Slough is slang for imprison.
Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/ZSB.HTM

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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.
Found on http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/glossary.htm

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Slough

A small muddy marshland or tidal waterway which usually connects other tidal areas.
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20127

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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)
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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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...
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221

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slough

v. to shed skin [applied to snakes]
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21568

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Slough

The action of shedding skin, or shed skin. Also known as ecdysis.
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22658

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