slipper

A low shoe that can be slipped on and off easily and usually worn indoors.

Slippery.

Fluent; flowing.

A loose, light shoe into which the foot may be easily slipped, generally for wearing indoors. Compare pantofle, and cut under poulaine.

A child’s garment; especially, a child’s slip.

Same as slipper-plant. See Pedilanthus.

A slipper-shaped pteropod. See Cymbuliidæ.

A glass-nautilus. See Carinaria.

A kind of iron slide or brake-shoe acting as a drag on the wheel of a heavy wagon in descending an incline; a skid. Also called slipper-drag.

One who or that which slips or lets slip; specifically, in coursing, the person who holds the couple of hounds in the leash, and lets both slip at the same instant on a given signal when the hare is started.