Index of English words, starting with "sl"

(1) - Sluggish (a.) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
(2) - Sluggish (a.) Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
(3) - Sluggish (a.) Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
(4) - Sluggish (a.) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

(1) - Sluice (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
(2) - Sluice (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
(3) - Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(4) - Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
(5) - Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(6) - Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
(7) - Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.

(1) - Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.