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Slip(medicine)
slip(2)(dictionary)
slip(3)(dictionary)
slip(4)(dictionary)
non-slip(dictionary)
slip(6)(dictionary)
slip(7)(dictionary)
slip-(8)(dictionary)
slip-ons(dictionary)

slip(3) (iou)



slip noun2. LME.
[Prob. from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch slippe (Dutch slip) cut, slit, strip.]
A cut, a slit. rare. LME-L17.
The edge, skirt, or flap of a garment etc.; a border. rare. LME.
b. A light underwaistcoat with the edge showing as a border. M20.
a. A cutting taken from a plant for grafting or planting. L15.
L. M. Montgomery I took a slip of the..Scotch rose-bud his mother brought out from Scotland.
b. fig. A scion, a descendant; an offshoot, an outgrowth. L16.
G. Crabbe He talk'd of bastard slips, and cursed his bed. Carlyle Some small slip of heathendom.
A spoon-handle with the top cut off obliquely; a spoon with a handle of this style fashionable in the 16th cent. Now chiefly in slip-top. E16.
A long, relatively thin and narrow piece or strip of or of a material. M16.
F. Rutley A glass slip is now placed on the hot plate. M. M. Kaye He broke the little slip of mother-of-pearl in two.
b. spec. A small piece of or of paper, esp. for writing on. L17.
pink slip: see PINK adjective2.
M. Das A rubber-stamped..slip served as a ticket. U. Holden It was decided to draw lots from slips of paper.
c. A newspaper printed in the form of a long slip of paper. L17-E18.
d. A printer's proof (usu. unpaged) on a long piece of paper; a galley proof. E19.
e. A memorandum summarizing the terms of an insurance, before a policy is drawn up. E19.
A strip of land, ground, etc. L16.
Landscape A slip of derelict railway land sandwiched between traffic..and trains.
A quantity of yarn etc. obsolete exc. dial. L16.
A young person of either sex, esp. one of small or slender build; also, a thin person of any age. Freq. foll. by of, esp. in slip of a girl. L16.
Browning He was puny, an under-sized slip. J. Galsworthy A poor thin slip of a shop-girl.
b. A young store-pig. Also foll. by of. dial., Austral., & NZ. M19
c. A sole (fish) of intermediate size. L19.
An elongated or slender specimen of something. M18.
T. Hook A neat sanded slip of a coffee-room.
A narrow elongated window, passage, etc.; spec. (in pl.) the sides of the gallery of a theatre. (Cf. SLIP noun3 5.) M18.