1. Worthless; bad. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. "That was a slim excuse." Barrow.
3. Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree. Grose.
SLIME
Slime, n. Etym: [OE. slim, AS. slim; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim,
MHG. slimen to make smooth, Icel. slim slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L.
limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. limus mud.]
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. Shak.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3. (Script.)
Defn: Bitumen. [Archaic]
Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.
4. pl. (Mining)
Defn: Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.