v. i. [ imp. Backslid p. p. Backslidden Backslid; p. pr. & vb. n. Backsliding. ] [ Back, adv. + slide. ] To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who backslides. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a heelless slipper specifically designed to be worn by ballet dancers while dancing. [ PJC ]

v. t. To daub with slime; to soil. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A kind of muslin used for the covers of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument.
Syn. -- brassy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having an appearance resembling that of brass.
Syn. -- brassy. [ PJC ]

n. 1. a small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned.
Syn. -- sprat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a small herring (Clupea sprattus) processed like a sardine.
Syn. -- sprat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

See Book muslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods; practical and efficient. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. serious and purposeful. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The wood louse. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cūslyppe, cūsloppe, prob. orig., cow's droppings. Cf. Slop, n. ] (Bot.) 1. A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold. [ 1913 Webster ]

American cowslip (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West (Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order (Primulaceæ) with the English cowslip. --
French cowslip (Bot.), bear's-ear (Primula Auricula). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adorned with cowslips. “Cowslipped lawns.” Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disliked p. pr. & vb. n. Disliking. ] 1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. “Disliking countenance.” Marston. “It dislikes me.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. [ 1913 Webster ]

God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hint malevolent, the look oblique,
The obvious satire, or implied dislike. Hannah More. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox. J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. A. W. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discord; dissension. [ Obs. ] Fairfax.

Syn. -- Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. -- Dislike, Aversion, Reluctance, Repugnance, Disgust, Antipathy. Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but antipathy, repugnance, disgust, and aversion are more intense phases of dislike. Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an aversion to or for business. Reluctance and repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (repugnance being the stronger); as, a reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a repugnance to the submission required. Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness. Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a reluctance and repugnance to what crosses their will; a disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by antipathies for which they can give no good reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make unlike; to disguise. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unlikeness. [ R. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dislikes or disrelishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + limn. ] To efface, as a picture. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of life. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a rare north temperate bog orchid (Calypso bulbosa) bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above one basal leaf.
Syn. -- calypso, Calypso bulbosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. resembling a fungus or fungi.
Syn. -- fungoid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gas jet or burner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gosling. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. gōs goose + -ling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A young or unfledged goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A catkin on nut trees and pines. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Housel. ] Sacramental; as, housling fire. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as lady's slipper.
Syn. -- lady's slipper, lady's-slipper, slipper orchid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The land which slips down. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An election victory in which the winning candidate receives a substantial majority of the votes, usually meaning at least ten per cent more than any opposing candidate. [ PJC ]

4. Any overwhelming victory. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. missellane, misceline, miscelin, meslin, fr. miscellane. See Miscellane. ] 1. A mixture composed of different materials; especially: (a) A mixture of metals resembling brass. (b) A mixture of different sorts of grain, as wheat and rye. [ Written also meslin, mislin, maselyn, mastlin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel made of maslin, 1 (a). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mead eke in a maselyn. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Composed of different sorts; as, maslin bread, which is made of rye mixed with a little wheat. [ Written also meslin, mislin, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Maslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dislike; disapprobation; aversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Misliked p. pr. & vb. n. Misliking. ] [ AS. mislīcian to displease. See Like, v. ] To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who may like or mislike what he says. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dislikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dislike; aversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. See Maslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To live amiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A mixture of untoasted dry cereals, nuts, and fruits, eaten mostly as a breakfast cereal; -- of Swiss origin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. & a. See Moslem. [ 1913 Webster ]