1. (v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

2. (v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.

3. (v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

4. (v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

5. (v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

6. (v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

7. (v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

8. (n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

9. (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

10. (n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

11. (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.