Definición y significado de slough

SloughSlough (?), a. Slow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

SloughSlough (?), n. [OE. slogh, slough, AS. slōh a hollow place; cf. MHG. slūch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug to swallow. Gr. ����� to hiccough, to sob.]
1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer.

He's here stuck in a slough. Milton.

2. [Pronounced sl�.] A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river. [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]

Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.

SloughSlough, obs. imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

SloughSlough (?), n. [OE. slugh, slouh; cf. MHG. sl�ch the skin of a serpent, G. schlauch a skin, a leather bag or bottle.]
1. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

2. (Med.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

SloughSlough, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sloughed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sloughing.] (Med.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.

SloughSlough, v. t. To cast off; to discard as refuse.

New tint the plumage of the birds,
And slough decay from grazing herds. Emerson.