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SLOUGH, n. slou.
SLOUGH, v.i. sluff. To separate from the sound flesh; to come off; as the matter over a sore; a term in surgery.
Slow.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
Chaucer.
He's here stuck in a slough. Milton. A wet place;
a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
[In this sense
local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]
Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will. Chaucer. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some
similar animal.
The dead mass separating from
a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in
mortification.
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.
To cast off; to
discard as refuse.
New tint the plumage of the birds, | ||||||||