Slime /(slīm)/

Slime

n.
  1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
    As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
  2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
  3. Bitumen. (Script.) [Archaic]
    Slime had they for mortar.
    — Gen. xi. 3.
  4. Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. (Mining)
  5. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. (Physiol.)

Phrases & Compounds
Slime eel
See 1st Hag, 4.
Slime pit
a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.

Slime

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Slimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming

  1. To smear with slime.