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SLOUGH

Volume 17 · 52 words · 1797 Edition

a deep muddy place. The cast skin of a snake, the damp of a coal pit, and the scar of a wound, are also called by the same appellation. The flough of a wild boar is the bed, foil, or mire, wherein he wallows, or in which he lies in the day-time.