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Slur
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
(2):
(v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
(3):
(n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
(4):
(n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
(5):
(v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
(6):
(v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
(7):
(v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.
(8):
(v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
(9):
(n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
(10):
(v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
(11):
(v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Slur'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/slur.html. 1828.
