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noun

Slipper n.

One who, or that which, slips.

A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.

A kind of apron or pinafore for children.

A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

(Mach.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; also called shoe, and gib.

Slipper animalcule (Zool.), a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium.

Slipper flower.(Bot.) Slipperwort.

Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell (Zool.), a boat shell.

adjective

Slipper adj. Slippery. (Obs.) "O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men."

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"Slipper" Quotes from Famous Books

... I fell in love with the crowd, and engaged a room over the great arched entrance. We were aware from the first of the dull red marks on the walls of the room, where bed-bugs had been slain with slipper heels by angry owners of the blood; but we were not in search of luxury, and we had our belongings and a can of insect-bane brought down from the hotel at once. The fact that stallions squealed and fought in the stalls across the ...

— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... Souders arrived at the Reist farmhouse she found Amanda ready with basket and trowel for the lady-slipper hunt. Amanda had put on a simple white dress and green-and-white sun hat. She looked with bewilderment at the city girl's attire, but said nothing just then. They stopped long enough for Isabel to meet the mistress ...

— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... attempt to disarm the Father's indignation by being caught in the attitude of worship, which the Padre was everlastingly inculcating? It might not mitigate his wrath, but then it might. He propped the unlucky Big Flower up so that it would stand, hurriedly stuffed a pair of stockings into each slipper, dropped them beside the umbrella, and then fell on his knees and began to patter Ave Marias, faster, and much more fervently, than he had ever said them before the altar at the Mission. In his haste he forgot to take ...

— The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions • J. Smeaton Chase

... Miss Maria, "from where she set Lyddy must have seen them pests under the lilacs the whole time, and never said a word." She pushed the loosened soil into place with the side of her ample slipper, and then went into the house, where she kindled a fire in the kitchen stove, and made herself a cup of Japan tea: a variety of the herb which our country people prefer, apparently because it affords the same stimulus with none of the pleasure ...

— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells

... disdainful motion she kicked off a heavily clumsy slipper—her instep arched narrowly to a delicate ankle, the small heel was sharply cut. "In silk," she said, "and a little brocaded slipper, you would see." She replaced the inadequate thing of leather. The animation ...

— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

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