•To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.•To disparage; to traduce.•To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.•To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.•To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.•To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.•To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.•A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.•A trick played upon a person; an imposition.•A mark, thus [/ or /], 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.•In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

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