Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slurred"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slurred \Slurred\, a. (Mus.)
Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style,
like notes marked with a slur.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slur \Slur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slurred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Slurring}.] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl?ra, slo?ra,
to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to
train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor,
sloerie, a sluttish girl.]
1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
--Cudworth.
2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.
3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
lightly or with little notice.
With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his
crimes. --Dryden.
4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras.
5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
--Busby.
7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to
mackle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
slurred
adj : spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a
drunkard"; "his words were slurred" [syn: {thick}]
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