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Webster 1913 Edition
Slur
Slur
(slûr)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Slurred
(slûrd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slurring
(slûr′rĭng)
.] [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.
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; to slur
one's words6.
(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.
Slur
,Noun.
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.
2.
A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
[R.]
3.
(Mus.)
A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], 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.
4.
In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slur
SLUR
,Verb.
T.
1.
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.2.
To pass lightly; to conceal. With periods, points and tropes he slurs his crimes.3.
To cheat; to trick. [Unusual.]4.
In music, to sing or perform in a smooth gliding style.SLUR
,Noun.
1.
Properly, a black mark; hence, slight reproach or disgrace. Every violation of moral duty should be a slur to the reputation.2.
In music, a mark connecting noest that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stoke of a stringed instrument.Definition 2024
slur
slur
English
Noun
slur (plural slurs)
- An insult or slight.
- a racial slur
- (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- (obsolete) A trick or deception.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
Translations
insult or slight
|
symbol indicating a legato passage
Derived terms
- ethnic slur
- racial slur
Verb
slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)
- To insult or slight.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
- (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- to slur men of what they fought for
- 1662, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Derived terms
Translations
to articulate poorly
to cover over, disguise, conceal; to pass over with little notice
printing: to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle