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Webster's English Dictionary

slippery

a. [See Slipper, a.]1. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. ()

2. Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. ()

The slippery tops of human state. (Cowley.)

3. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. ()

The slippery god will try to loose his hold. (Dryden.)

4. Liable to slip; not standing firm. (Shak.)

5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. (Denham.)

6. Uncertain in effect. (L'Estrange.)

7. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. (Shak.)

Slippery elm. (Bot.) (a) An American tree (Ulmus fulva) with a mucilagenous and slightly aromatic inner bark which is sometimes used medicinally; also, the inner bark itself. (b) A malvaceous shrub (Fremontia Californica); -- so called on the Pacific coast. ()