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Chercher Slough
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Slough 
  n an industrial town and unitary authority in SE central England. Pop.: 110708 (1991) 

slough [1] 
  n 
1 a hollow filled with mud; bog 
2  (North American) 
a (in the prairies) a large hole where water collects or the water in such a hole 
b (in the northwest) a sluggish side channel of a river 
c (on the Pacific coast) a marshy saltwater inlet 
3 despair or degradation 
  (Old English sloh; related to Middle High German sluoche ditch, Swedish slaga swamp) 
♦  sloughy  adj 
slough [2] 
  n 
1 any outer covering that is shed, such as the dead outer layer of the skin of a snake, the cellular debris in a wound, etc. 
2  (Also)  sluff  (Bridge) a discarded card 
  vb 
3 often foll by: off to shed (a skin, etc.) or (of a skin, etc.) to be shed 
4  (Also)  sluff  (Bridge) to discard (a card or cards) 
  (C13: of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German slu husk, German Schlauch hose, Norwegian slo fleshy part of a horn) 
♦  sloughy  adj 
slough off 
  vb tr, adv to cast off (cares, etc.) 

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