slough

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When the slough is all detached, the remaining wound is to be treated with simple stimulating dressings, such as tincture of aloes or turpentine, oakum balls, and bandages as directed in punctured wounds.

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  1. noun A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.
  2. noun A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
  3. noun A state of deep despair or moral degradation.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English slōh.
  2. Middle English slughe.

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  1. In the second sense spelled slue, slew, sloo; from Middle English slough, slogh, slo, slow, sloh, from Anglo-Saxon slōh, slōg, a slough; prob. of Celtic origin: from Irish sloc, a pit, hollow, pitfall (cf. slugpholl, a whirlpool), = Gaelic sloc, a pit, den, grave, pool, gutter (cf. slugaid, a slough, or deep miry place, slugan, a whirlpool, gulf), from Irish slugaim, I swallow, Gaelic sluig, swallow, absorb, devour; cf. Welsh llawg, a gulp, from llawcio, gulp, gorge. These forms are prob. akin to Low German sluken = Old High German *slucchōn, Middle High German slucken, sluchen, swallow, sob, hiccup, German schlucken, swallow, = Swedish sluka = Danish sluge, swallow; cf. Danish sluge, throat, gullet, a ravine, = Norwegian sluk, the throat, gullet, = Middle High German slūch, the throat, a pit; Middle English sloffynge, devouring; cf. Greek λύζειν, λυγγάνειν, hiccup, sob.
  2. Scots sloch; from Middle English slouh, slow, slughe, slohe, slouʒe (also, later, slougth), skin of a snake; cf. Swedish dial. slug = Norwegian slo = Middle High German slūch, a skin, snake-skin, German schlauch, a skin, bag; appar, connected with Low German sluken = Old High German *slucchōn, Middle High German slucken, German schlucken = Swedish sluka = Danish sluge, swallow: see slough. These words are connected by some with Swedish dial. sluv, a covering, = Low German slu, sluwe, a husk, covering, the pod of a bean or pea, husk of a nut, = Middle Dutch sloove, a veil, a skin, slooven, cover one's head, = German dial. schlaube, a shell, husk, slough, akin to English sleeve: see sleeve.
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