2. Verb. (third-person singular of slough) ¹
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Definition of Sloughs
1. slough [v] - See also: slough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloughs
Literary usage of Sloughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"With these sloughs there is more or less haemorrhage. The stools now frequently
resemble, in colour and consistence, cream mixed with blood. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation and Water Rights: And the Arid Region by Clesson Selwyne Kinney (1912)
"sloughs.—A slough is denned as an arm of a river apart from the main channel.1 As
to whether water may be appropriated from sloughs depends entirely as to ..."
3. American Inter-state Law by David Rorer (1879)
"STATE CONTROL OF BAYOUS AND sloughs OF KIVERS. The bayous and sloughs of great
and navigable rivers, such as is the Mississippi River, which are not ..."
4. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Appropriation of Water as by Samuel Charles Wiel (1908)
"Same—sloughs.—A slough without original water of its own is not a watercourse.24 Where
water flowed in a slough having well-defined banks leading from a ..."
5. Lectures on Appendicitis and Notes on Other Subjects by Robert Tuttle Morris (1895)
"sloughs which are undergoing decomposition, but which cannot be peeled away from
a wound, may require removal by operation to prevent septic complications. ..."
6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"Down the ravine, over the knolls, through sloughs, toward the banks of the Cedar,
but Thomas beat them all, and as his pursuers neared the river-banks they ..."
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