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Definition of Sloom
1. n. Slumber.
Definition of Sloom
1. Verb. (Scotland obsolete) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep. ¹
2. Verb. (qualifier of plants or soil) To soften or rot with damp. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sloom
1. to slumber [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: slumber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloom
Literary usage of Sloom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"[V. ander sloom, v. ... V. sloom, v. 3. Damp, and in an incipient state of
putrefaction ; applied to vegetables, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are Explained in by John Jamieson (1867)
"To sloom, tr. n. 1. To become powerless ; «r?5f: to the human body, Ettr. For.
H't'iu. ... To sloom, и. я. To slumber, S. H Лр. *й- Teut. ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Enc. when sinking in a miry bog; also, when walking with shoes full of water ;"
Gall. Enc. V. SLONK, v. To sloom, SI.ODM, vn To slumber, SB] Add; ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society, John Harland, Manchester (England). Court-Leet (1862)
"... slumra Swe., "sloom Eng., ... (Cr.), not in West, and Cumb.; (sloom, Wt.
and Halli., as belonging to the North); ..."
5. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1862)
"... slumra Swe., " sloom Eng., schlummer, ... not in West, and Cumb.; (sloom, Wt.
and Halli., as belonging to the North); ..."
6. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"sloom, ». A slumber ; an unsettled slee BLOOMY CORN. Grain which is not wi q.
what slumbers in the growth. ..."
7. The Coal and Iron Industries of the United Kingdom by Richard Meade (1882)
"95 1 Sandstones and shales 1117 Coal and sloom (soft clay) 26 Kilburne Coal] sloom.
0 „ 2 „ r 52 ( Coal . 3ft. ..."
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