the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Slug
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle.
(2):
(v. t.) To make sluggish.
(3):
(n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
(4):
(n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
(5):
(n.) A hindrance; an obstruction.
(6):
(n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
(7):
(n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, - used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
(8):
(n.) A ship that sails slowly.
(9):
(n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
(10):
(v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
(11):
(v. t.) To strike heavily.
(12):
(v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; - said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Slug'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/slug.html. 1828.
