To slide; to glide; to move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling or stepping.

To slide; not to tread firmly. Walk carefully, lest your foot should slip.

TO move or fly out of place; usually without; as, a bone may slip out of its place.

To sneak; to slink; to depart or withdraw secretly; with away. Thus one tradesman slips away to give his partner fairer play.

To err; to fall into error or fault. One slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.

To glide; to pass unexpectedly or imperceptibly. And thrice the flitting shadow slipp’d away.

To enter by oversight. An error may slip into a copy, notwithstanding all possible car.

To escape insensibly; to be lost. Use the most proper methods to retain the ideas you have acquired, for the mind is ready to let many of them slip.

To convey secretly. He tried to slip a powder into her drink.

To omit; to lose by negligence. Let us not slip the occasion. And slip no advantage that may secure you.

To part twigs from the branches or stem of a tree. The branches also may be slipped and planted.

To escape from; to leave slily. Lucentio slipp’d me like his greyhound. From is here understood.

To let loose; as, to slip the hounds.

To throw off; to disengage one’s self from; as, a horse slip his bridle.

To pass over or omit negligently; as, to slip over that main points of a subject.

To tear off; as, to slip off a twig.

To suffer abortion; to miscarry; as a beast. To slip a cable, to veer out and let go the end. To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as to slip on a gown or coat.

A sliding; act of slipping.

An unintentional error or fault.

A twig separated from the main stock; as the slip of a vine.