Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slunk"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slink \Slink\, v. t. [imp. {Slunk}, Archaic {Slank}; p. p.
{Slunk}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slinking}.] [AS. slincan; probably
akin to G. schleichen, E. sleek. See {Sleek}, a.]
1. To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. ``To slink
away and hide.'' --Tale of Beryn.
Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent.
--Milton.
There were some few who slank obliquely from them as
they passed. --Landor.
2. To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slunk \Slunk\,
imp. & p. p. of {Slink}.
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