An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

SLIP, SLYP, s.
1. A low draught carriage, a dray without wheels.
Wallace.

Germ. schleife, traha, schleif-en, to draw.

2. A wooden frame set on the top of a cart, for enlarging its size, S. B.

SLYP, SLYPE, s. A coarse fellow, Aberd. Gl. Skinner.
Journ. Lond.

Isl. slap-r, homuncio sordidus; slaep-a, longurio.

To SLYPE, v. a. To fall over, as a wet furrow from the plough, Ayrs. E. slip.

Teut. slipp-en, delabi.

Burns.

SLIPPERY, SLEPERYE, SLEEPERY, adj.
1. Causing sleep.
Doug.
2. Overpowered with sleep, S.
Minstr. Bord.

Teut. slaeperigh, somnolentus.