Definitions for slough
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 3 votes

1. gangrene, sphacelus, sloughnoun

   necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass

2. sloughnoun

   a hollow filled with mud

3. sloughnoun

   a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)

4. sloughverb

   any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

5. shed, molt, exuviate, moult, sloughverb

   cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

   "our dog sheds every Spring"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Sloughnoun

   A town in west London, close to Heathrow Airport

2. Etymology: From sloh, probably from slōhaz.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sloughnoun

   Etymology: slog , Saxon.

   1. A deep miry place; a hole full of dirt.

   The Scots were in a fallow field, whereinto the English could not enter, but over a cross ditch and a slough; in passing whereof many of the English horse were plunged, and some mired. John Hayward.

   The ways being foul, twenty to one,
   He’s here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. John Milton.

   A carter had laid his waggon fast in a slough. Roger L'Estrange.

   2. The skin which a serpent casts off at his periodical renovation.

   Thy fates open their hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them; and to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

   When the mind is quicken’d,
   The organs, though defunct and dead before,
   Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move,
   With casted slough and fresh legerity. William Shakespeare.

   As the snake, roll’d in a flow’ry bank,
   With shining checker’d slough, doth sting a child,
   That for the beauty thinks it excellent. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

   Oh let not sleep my closing eyes invade
   In open plains, or in the secret shade,
   When he, renew’d in all the speckl’d pride
   Of pompous youth, has cast his slough aside;
   And in his Summer liv’ry rolls along,
   Erect and brandishing his forky tongue. Dryden.

   The slough of an English viper, that is, the cuticula, they cast off twice every year, at spring and fall: the separation begins at the head, and is finished in twenty-four hours. Nehemiah Grew.

   The body, which we leave behind in this visible world, is as the womb or slough from whence we issue, and are born into the other. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.

   3. The part that separates from a foul sore.

   At the next dressing I found a slough come away with the dressings, which was the sordes. Richard Wiseman, on Ulcers.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slough

   Slough () is a large town in Berkshire, England, 20 miles (32 km) west of central London and 18 miles (29 km) north-east of Reading, in the Thames Valley at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. Slough had a population of 164,000 in 2018. The A4 and the Great Western Main Line pass through the town, which was historically part of neighbouring Buckinghamshire. Crossrail is expected to allow faster journeys to central London. Slough's population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United Kingdom, attracting people from across the country and the world for labour since the 1920s, which has helped shape it into a major trading centre. In 2017, unemployment stood at 1.4%, one-third the UK average of 4.5%.Slough has the highest concentration of UK HQs of global companies outside London. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe with over 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses. Blackberry, McAfee, Burger King, DHL and Lego have head offices in the town.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Sloughadjective

   slow

2. Sloughnoun

   a place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire

3. Sloughnoun

   a wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river

4. Slough

   imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew

5. Sloughnoun

   the skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal

6. Sloughnoun

   the dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification

7. Sloughverb

   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

8. Sloughverb

   to cast off; to discard as refuse

9. Etymology: [OE. slugh, slouh; cf. MHG. slch the skin of a serpent, G. schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle.]

WikidataRate this definition:1.0 / 2 votes

1. Slough

   Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town is about 20 miles west of Charing Cross, London. It is bisected by the A4 and the Great Western Main Line. At the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 and the borough area was the most ethnically diverse local authority area outside London in the United Kingdom. Slough has the highest proportion of religious adherents in England. Historically, the larger part of the present-day Slough area was formerly in Buckinghamshire with a small part of the borough a part of Middlesex. Slough is home to the Slough Trading Estate — an important business centre in South East England — the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe. It is owned and operated by Segro.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Slough

   slow, n. a hollow filled with mud: a soft bog or marsh.—adj. Slough′y, full of sloughs: miry. [A.S. slóh, a hollow place; perh. from Ir. sloc—slugaim, to swallow up.]

2. Slough

   sluf, n. the cast-off skin of a serpent: the dead part which separates from a sore.—v.i. to come away as a slough (with off): to be in the state of sloughing.—v.t. to cast off, as a slough.—adj. Slough′y, like, or containing, slough. [Scand.; Sw. dial. slug; cf. Ger. slauch, a skin.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLOUGH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Slough is ranked #18676 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Slough surname appeared 1,472 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Slough.
   
   93.6% or 1,378 total occurrences were White.
   3.4% or 51 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1% or 15 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 13 total occurrences were Black.
   0.6% or 10 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.3% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Bog
   • Pathology
   • Swamp

Anagrams for slough »

1. ghouls

2. loughs

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1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of slough in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of slough in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of slough in a Sentence

1. Keri Peterson:

   Hand washing by rubbing the hands with warm soapy water for at least 20 seconds helps to slough germs off the skin, teach your children to wash their hands as well.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=slough
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Slough
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=slough
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slough
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=slough
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=slough
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html