| • | 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. |