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Definition of 'slime'

noun

Any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze]

verb

Cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim"

From: GCIDE

Slime \Slime\ (sl[imac]m), n. [OE. slim, AS. sl[imac]m; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. sl[imac]men to make smooth, Icel. sl[imac]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. [1913 Webster]
As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive. [1913 Webster]
3. (Script.) Bitumen. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
Slime had they for mortar. --Gen. xi. 3. [1913 Webster]
4. pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. --Pryce. [1913 Webster]
5. (Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
Slime eel. (Zool.) See 1st Hag, 4.
Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Slime \Slime\ (sl[imac]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed (sl[imac]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.] To smear with slime. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] slime mold

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.)