slickens
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
slickens
- third-person singular simple present indicative of slicken
Etymology 2 edit
Compare slick (noun).
Noun edit
slickens (uncountable)
- (US, dialect) The pulverised matter from a quartz mill.
- (US, dialect, mining) The lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “slickens”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)