\Slur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slurred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Slurring}.] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl?ra, slo?ra,
to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to
train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor,
sloerie, a sluttish girl.]
1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
   --Cudworth.
2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.
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. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
         To slur men of what they fought for.  --Hudibras.
5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
   connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
   --Busby.
7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to
   mackle.

\Slur\, n.
1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
   stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. ``Gaining
   to his name a lasting slur.'' --South.
2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], 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.
4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
   sinkers successively by passing over them.