slickens

English

Etymology 1

Verb

slickens

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of slicken

Etymology 2

Compare slick (noun).

Noun

slickens (uncountable)

1. (US, dialect) The pulverised matter from a quartz mill.
2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• snickles, Nickless, Lesnicks