Slop
(Slop), v. i. To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; — often
with over.
Slop
(Slop), n. [AS. slop a frock or over-garment, fr. slpan to slip, to slide; akin to Icel sloppr a thin
garment; cf. OHG. slouf a garment. Cf. Slip, v. i.]
1. Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. [Obs.] Halliwell.
2. A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural. "A pair of slops." Sir P. Sidney.
There's a French salutation to your French slop.
Shak. 3. pl. Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Slope
(Slope) n. [Formed (like abode fr. abide) from OE. slipen. See Slip, v. i.]
1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an
inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
buildings the summit and slope of a hill.
Macaulay.
Under the slopes of Pisgah.
Deut. iv. 49. A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity; considered as ascending, an acclivity.
Slope of a plane (Geom.), the direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.
Slope
(Slope), a. Sloping. "Down the slope hills." Milton.
A bank not steep, but gently slope.
Bacon. Slope
(Slope), adv. In a sloping manner. [Obs.] Milton.
Slope
(Slope), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sloped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sloping.] To form with a slope; to give an
oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to
slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
Slope
(Slope), v. i.
1. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground
slopes.
2. To depart; to disappear suddenly. [Slang]
Slopeness
(Slope"ness), n. State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.
Slopewise
(Slope"wise`) adv. Obliquely. [Obs.] Carew.
Sloping
(Slop"ing), a. Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other
right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. — Slop"ing*ly, adv.
The sloping land recedes into the clouds.
Cowper. Sloppiness
(Slop"pi*ness) n. The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
