slime
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1. slime - Noun
2. slime - Verb
Meaning
Bitumen.
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
To smear with slime.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
"Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self” was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.
Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.
The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.