slish

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It arose in a low moan and mounted steadily to a shriek, gradually dying away in the distance, followed by the slish-slishing of the fine snow across the rotted shingles of the roof It's a tempest not to be forgotten," said Frank.

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  1. A cut; a slash. Here s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 3. 90.
  2. Same as slash.

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  1. A variant of slash, perhaps in part of slice, which is from the same ult. source.
  2. from slish, n.
 

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