1. [n]  any thick messy substance
2. [v]  cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim"

1. \Slime\, n. [OE. slim, AS. sl[=i]m; akin to D. slijm, G.
   schleim, MHG. sl[=i]men to make smooth, Icel. sl[=i]m slime,
   Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr.
   ???; or cf. L. limus mud.]
   1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality;
      viscous mud.
            As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and
            ooze scatters his grain.              --Shak.
   2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty
      nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
   3. (Script.) Bitumen. [Archaic]
            Slime had they for mortar.            --Gen. xi. 3.
   4. pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the
      preparatory dressing. --Pryce.
   5. (Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the
      bodies of certain animals. --Goldsmith.
   {Slime eel}. (Zo["o]l.) See 1st {Hag}, 4.
   {Slime pit}, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
   

2. \Slime\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slimed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sliming}.]
   To smear with slime. --Tennyson.
   

(Gen. 11:3; LXX., "asphalt;" R.V. marg., "bitumen"). The vale of Siddim was full of slime pits (14:10). Jochebed daubed the "ark of bulrushes" with slime (Ex. 2:3). (See PITCH.)