slink

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SLINK, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive slunk. 1. To sneak; to creep away meanly; to steal away. He would pinch the children in the dark, and then slink into a corner. 2. To miscarry, as a beast. SLINK, verb transitive To cast prematurely; to miscarry of; as the female of a beast. SLINK, noun Produced prematurely, as the young of a beast.
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