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Sloughing   Listen
noun
Sloughing  n.  (Zool.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.





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"Sloughing" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had not much difficulty in sloughing off persons who come with bad or low motives; and in this I should say he was right; for the life is strictly ascetic, and has no charms for the idler or for merely sentimental or romantic people. "If one comes with low motives, he will not be comfortable with us, and will presently go away; ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... o'clock she was still in her nightdress, sloughing about in an engagement gift of little blue knitted bedroom slippers. There were the new valise and an old dress-suitcase tightly packed and shoved beneath the bed, and over a chair a tan-linen suit inserted with strips of large-holed embroidery that had been dyed in coffee by ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


Words linked to "Sloughing" :   moulting, shedding, ecdysis, molt, slough, abscission, biological process, moult, molting, organic process


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