Slur (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. [Slurred] (?); p. pr. & vb. n. [Slurring] (?).] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. slra, slora, to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish girl.]

1.

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

Cudworth.

2.

To disparage; to traduce.

Tennyson.

3.

To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.

4.

To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

[R.]

To slur men of what they fought for. Hudibras.

5.

To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

6. [Music|Mus.]

To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

Busby.

7. Print.

To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

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Slur, n.

1.

A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

"Gaining to his name a lasting slur."

South.

2.

A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

[R.]

3. [Music|Mus.]

A mark, thus [&upslur; or &downslur;], 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.

4.

In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

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Slur (definition)