1. To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
2. To slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest
the foot should slip.
3. To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; — often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.
4. To depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive
manner; as, some errors slipped into the work.
Thus one tradesman slips away,
To give his partner fairer play.
Prior.
Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.
Dryden. 5. To err; to fall into error or fault.
There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.
Ecclus. xix. 16. To let slip, to loose from the slip or noose, as a hound; to allow to escape.
Cry, "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
Shak. Slip
(Slip) v. t.
1. To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
He tried to slip a powder into her drink.
Arbuthnot. 2. To omit; to loose by negligence.
And slip no advantage
That my secure you.
B. Jonson. 3. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper.
The branches also may be slipped and planted.
Mortimer. 4. To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound.
Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.
Shak. 5. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
6. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
To slip a cable. (Naut.) See under Cable. — To slip off, to take off quickly; as, to slip off a coat.
— To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as, to slip on a gown or coat.
Slip
(Slip), n. [AS. slipe, slip.]
1. The act of slipping; as, a slip on the ice.
2. An unintentional error or fault; a false step.
This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.
Fuller.
