Read full poem →"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of thoughts be laid at last,
Dictionary Entry
The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
In a Sentence
“That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sloughoff sloughaway sloughslough elkhorn
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Poetry examples for “slough”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →None passes there because the mist and the rain
Out of the elms have turned the lane to slough
And gloom, the name alone survives, Bob's Lane.
Read full poem →In his despair,
Would he be more contented in the slough
If all were there?
Read full poem →Triumphant in the flash there to redeem
Love's handsel and forevermore to slough,
Like cerements at a played-out masque, the rough
Read full poem →The fishes float with new repairèd scale;
The adder all her slough away she slings;
The swift swallow pursueth the fliès small;
Read full poem →Or els the ways being foul, twenty to one,
He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known,
Read full poem →New-tint the plumage of the birds,
And slough decay from grazing herds,
Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain,
Read full poem →Delude his eyes,
Till in some miry slough he sunk is,
Ne'er mair to rise.
Read full poem →Stoke Park is about a couple of miles from Slough. The country is
flat, but its monotony is broken up by the noble character and
Read full poem →From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand,
I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and
blood,