SLUG-HORN
Slug"-horn`, a.
Defn: An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
SLUGS
Slugs, n. pl. (Mining)
Defn: Half-roasted ore.
SLUGWORM
Slug"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.
SLUICE
Sluice, n. Etym: [OF. escluse, F. écluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from
L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the
Old French. See Exclude.]
1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.
2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a
source of supply.
Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte.
This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I.
Taylor.
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.