v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Slurred p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring ] [ Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. slōra, sloðra, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disparage; to traduce. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To slur men of what they fought for. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. Busby. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. “Gaining to his name a lasting slur.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [ ⌢ or ⌣ ], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mus.) Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur. [ 1913 Webster ]