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. 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. 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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