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  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slink  \Slink\,  v.  t.  [imp.  {Slunk},  Archaic  {Slank};  p.  p. 
  {Slunk};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Slinking}.]  [AS.  slincan  probably 
  akin  to  G.  schleichen  E.  sleek.  See  {Sleek},  a.] 
  1.  To  creep  away  meanly;  to  steal  away  to  sneak.  ``To  slink 
  away  and  hide.''  --Tale  of  Beryn. 
 
  Back  to  the  thicket  slunk  The  guilty  serpent. 
  --Milton. 
 
  There  were  some  few  who  slank  obliquely  from  them  as 
  they  passed.  --Landor. 
 
  2.  To  miscarry;  --  said  of  female  beasts.




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