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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slate \Slate\, n. [OE. slat, OF esclat a shiver, splinter, F. ['e]clat, fr OF esclater to shiver, to chip, F. ['e]clater, fr OHG. sliezen to tear, slit, split, fr sl[=i]zan to slit, G. schleissen See {Slit}, v. t., and cf {Eclat}.] 1. (Min.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: a A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc b A tablet for writing upon 4. An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes. 5. A thin plate of any material; a flake. [Obs.] 6. (Politics) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action devised beforehand. [Cant, U.S.] --Bartlett. {Adhesive slate} (Min.), a kind of slate of a greenish gray color, which absorbs water rapidly, and adheres to the tongue; whence the name {Aluminous slate}, or {Alum slate} (Min.), a kind of slate containing sulphate of alumina, -- used in the manufacture of alum. {Bituminous slate} (Min.), a soft species of sectile clay slate, impregnated with bitumen. {Hornblende slate} (Min.), a slaty rock, consisting essentially of hornblende and feldspar, useful for flagging on account of its toughness. {Slate ax} or {axe}, a mattock with an ax end used in shaping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails. {Slate clay} (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of the alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. --Tomlinson. {Slate globe}, a globe the surface of which is made of an artificial slatelike material. {Slate pencil}, a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for writing on a slate. {Slate rocks} (Min.), rocks which split into thin lamin[ae], not necessarily parallel to the stratification; foliated rocks. {Slate spar} (Min.), a variety of calcite of silvery white luster and of a slaty structure. {Transparent slate}, a plate of translucent material, as ground glass, upon which a copy of a picture, placed beneath it can be made by tracing. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ax \Ax\, Axe \Axe\,, n. [OE. ax axe, AS eax, [ae]x, acas; akin to D. akse, OS accus, OHG. acchus G. axt, Icel. ["o]x, ["o]xi, Sw yxe, Dan. ["o]kse, Goth. aqizi Gr ?, L. ascia; not akin to E. acute.] A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle. Note: The ancient battle-ax had sometimes a double edge. Note: The word is used adjectively or in combination; as axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft; ax-shaped; axlike. Note: This word was originally spelt with e, axe; and so also was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable: as flaxe, taxe, waxe, sixe, mixe, pixe, oxe, fluxe, etc This superfluous e is not dropped; so that in more than a hundred words ending in x, no one thinks of retaining the e except in axe. Analogy requires its exclusion here Note: ``The spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which has of late become prevalent.'' --New English Dict. (Murray). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Axe \Axe\, Axeman \Axe"man\, etc See {Ax}, {Axman}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grub \Grub\, n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of {Goldsmith beetle}, under {Goldsmith}. Yet your butterfly was a grub. --Shak. 2. A short, thick man; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Carew. 3. Victuals; food. [Slang] --Halliwell. {Grub ax} or {axe}, a kind of mattock used in grubbing up roots, etc {Grub breaker}. Same as {Grub hook} (below). {Grub hoe}, a heavy hoe for grubbing. {Grub hook}, a plowlike implement for uprooting stumps, breaking roots, etc {Grub saw}, a handsaw used for sawing marble. {Grub Street}, a street in London (now called {Milton Street}), described by Dr Johnson as ``much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet.'' As an adjective, suitable to or resembling the production of Grub Street. I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays. --Gap. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: axe n : an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle [syn: {ax}] v 1: chop or split with an ax as of wood [syn: {ax}] 2: terminate, as of a project or a program; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it" [syn: {ax}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: aXeA {text editor} for the {X Window System}. No longer maintained. (1998-03-13) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Axe used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping." It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building. It is the rendering of a different word in Judg. 9:48, 1 Sam. 13:20, 21, Ps 74:5, which refers to its sharpness. In 2 Kings 6:5 it is the translation of a word used with reference to its being made of iron. In Isa. 44:12 the Revised Version renders by axe" the Hebrew _maatsad_, which means a hewing" instrument. In the Authorized Version it is rendered "tongs." It is also used in Jer. 10:3, and rendered "axe." The "battle-axe" (army of Medes and Persians) mentioned in Jer. 51:20 was probably, as noted in the margin of the Revised Version, a maul" or heavy mace. In Ps 74:6 the word so rendered means "feller." (See the figurative expression in Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9.) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: AXE Application eXecution Environment
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