in Music, a mark like the arch of a circle, drawn from one note to another, comprehending two or more notes in the same or different degrees. If the notes are in different degrees, it signifies that they are all to be sung to one syllable; for wind instruments, that they are to be made in one continued breath; and for strung instruments that are struck with a bow, as a violin, &c. that they are made with one stroke. If the notes are in the same degree, it signifies that it is all one note, to be made as long as the whole notes so connected; and this happens most frequently betwixt the last note of one line and the first of the next; which is particularly called syncopation.

SLUYs, a town of Dutch Flanders, opposite the island of Cadzand, with a good harbour, 10 miles north of Bruges, containing 14,000 inhabitants. E. Long. 3. 26. N. Lat. 51. 19.