Slur /(slûr)/

imp. & p. p. Slurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring

1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
2. To disparage; to traduce.
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.

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

   To slur men of what they fought for.

5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words.
6. To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. (Mus.)
7. To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle. (Print.)

1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
3. 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. (Mus.)
4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.