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slicking, vbl. n.|ˈslɪkɪŋ|
[f. slick v.]
1. a. The action of making sleek or smooth, etc.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 27 By crafty sliking they make the same Fustions to appere to the comen people fyne, hole and sounde. 1600Abbot Jonah 592 Are there not which take more care of their slicking and of their platting, then of the Kingdom of Heaven? 1636Lyly's Euphues F iij, I loath almost to thinke on..the sliking of their faces. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2192/1 The size is flour-paste,..and the operation on the rope is called snugging, slicking, or finishing.
attrib.1588Churchyard in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823) II. 595 As it were rubde and smoothde with slicking-stone. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss., A shoemaker talks about slicking the soles of his shoes with a slicking stick. 1896Archæol. Jrnl. LIII. 46 Thumb-flints, or slicking-knives, also occur.
b. spec. In hat-making: (see quot.).
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2208/2 Slicking,..the attaching of the fur nap to the felt body.
2. With up: the action of making (oneself, a place, etc.) neat and tidy. U.S. colloq.
1855Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. VI. 495 The farm needs a good deal of slicking up to make the general appearance equal to what nature has done for the land. 1907Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 9 May 1 Denver has been having her period of spring slicking up.
3. Mining. In pl. Narrow veins of ore.
1843J. Y. Watson Compend. Brit. Mining 81. |