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Entry 11 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Slur

/(slûr)/ · IPA /slɜɹ/
01 v. t. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
imp. & p. p. Slurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Slurring
  1. 1.
    To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
  2. 2.
    To disparage; to traduce.
  3. 3.
    To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
    “With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.” — Dryden.
  4. 4.
    To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.[R.]
    “To slur men of what they fought for.” — Hudibras.
  5. 5.
    To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur one's words.
  6. 6.
    To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.(Mus.)
  7. 7.
    To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.(Print.)
02 n. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
  1. 1.
    A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
  2. 2.
    A trick played upon a person; an imposition.[R.]
  3. 3.
    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.(Mus.)
  4. 4.
    In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.