Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slimy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Slimy \Slim"y\, a. [Compar. {Slimier}; superl. {Slimiest}.]
Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of
slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with
slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.

Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
--Coleridge.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

slimy
adj : covered with or resembling slime; "a slimy substance covered
the rocks" [syn: {slimed}]


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