| sly | 1. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; in a good sense. "Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves." (Wyclif (Matt. X. 16)) "Whom graver age And long experience hath made wise and sly." (Fairfax) 2. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. "For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess." (Spenser) 3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick. "Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner." (I. Watts) 4. Light or delicate; slight; thin. By the sly, or On the sly, in a sly or secret manner. "Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly." . <zoology> Sly goose, the common sheldrake; so named from its craftiness. Synonym: Cunning, crafty, subtile, wily. See Cunning. Origin: OE. Sli, slegh, sleih, Icel slgr, for slgr; akin to Sw. Slug, Dan. Slu, LG. Slou, G. Schlau; probably to E. Slay, v.t.; cf. G. Verschlagen sly. See Slay, and cf. Sleight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Sly syndrome | <syndrome> An autosomal recessive disorder due to a deficiency of a beta-glucuronidase; defective lysosomal degradation of dermatan sulfate, heparan sulfate, and chondroitin sulfate; cellular function disrupted in most tissues. Synonym: type VII mucopolysaccharidosis, type VIII mucopolysaccharidosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| slyke | A unit of buffer value, the slope of the acid-base titration curve of a solution; the millimoles of strong acid or base that must be added per unit of change in pH. Origin: D.D. Van Slyke, U.S. Physician and chemist, 1883-1971 (05 Mar 2000) |