to soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.-to disparage; to traduce.-to cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.-to cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.-to pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.-to sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.-to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.-a mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.-a trick played upon a person; an imposition.-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.-in knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.