slime /ˈslaɪm/
 爛泥,粘液(vt.)塗上泥(vi.)變粘滑


 Slime n.
 1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
 As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman
 Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.   --Shak.
 2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
 3. Script. Bitumen. [Archaic]
    Slime had they for mortar.   --Gen. xi. 3.
 4. pl. Mining Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
 5. Physiol. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
 Slime eel. Zool. See 1st Hag, 4.
 Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.


 Slime v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.] To smear with slime.

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 slime
      n : any thick messy substance [syn: sludge, goo, gook, guck,
           gunk, muck, ooze]
      v : cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim"


 Slime
    (Gen. 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of
    Siddim was full of slime pits (14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark
    of bulrushes" with slime (Ex. 2:3). (See PITCH.)