Slough

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer. He's here stuck in a slough. Milton.

2. [Pronounced sloo.]

3. A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

2. The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To cast off; to discard as refuse. New tint the plumage of the birds, And slough decay from grazing herds. Emerson.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Slow. [Obs.] Chaucer.