Definitions
1.nounThe skin shed by a snake or other reptile."That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful."
2.nounDead skin on a sore or ulcer."This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn."
3.verbTo shed (skin)."Snakes slough their skin periodically."
4.verbTo slide off (like a layer of skin)."A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off."
5.verbTo discard."East sloughed a heart."
6.verb(Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch)""Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!""
7.nounA muddy or marshy area.
8.noun(Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees."We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough."
9.noun(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
10.nounA state of depression."John is in a slough."
11.nounA small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes."Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems."