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slurring


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slur  \Slur\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Slurred};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Slurring}.]  [Cf.  OE  sloor  mud,  clay,  Icel.  sl?ra,  slo?ra, 
  to  trail  or  drag  one's  self  along  D.  sleuren  sloren,  to 
  train,  to  drag,  to  do  negligently  and  slovenly,  D.  sloor, 
  sloerie  a  sluttish  girl.] 
  1.  To  soil;  to  sully;  to  contaminate;  to  disgrace. 
  --Cudworth. 
 
  2.  To  disparage;  to  traduce.  --Tennyson. 
 
  3.  To  cover  over  to  disguise;  to  conceal;  to  pass  over 
  lightly  or  with  little  notice. 
 
  With  periods,  points,  and  tropes,  he  slurs  his 
  crimes.  --Dryden. 
 
  4.  To  cheat,  as  by  sliding  a  die;  to  trick.  [R.] 
 
  To  slur  men  of  what  they  fought  for  --Hudibras. 
 
  5.  To  pronounce  indistinctly;  as  to  slur  syllables. 
 
  6.  (Mus.)  To  sing  or  perform  in  a  smooth,  gliding  style;  to 
  connect  smoothly  in  performing,  as  several  notes  or  tones. 
  --Busby. 
 
  7.  (Print.)  To  blur  or  double,  as  an  impression  from  type  to 
  mackle. 




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