noun. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.

transitive verb. To make a slit or slits in.

transitive verb. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.

To cut asunder; cleave; split; rend; sever.

To cut lengthwise or into long pieces or strips: as, the gale has slit the sails into ribbons.

To cut or make a long fissure in; slash.

noun. A Middle English contracted form of slideth, third person singular present indicative of slide.

noun. A long cut or rent; a narrow opening.

noun. A pocket.

noun. A cleft or crack in the breast of fat cattle.

noun. In coal-mining, a short heading connecting two other headings.

noun. Specifically, in zoöl., anat., and embryology, a visceral cleft; one of the series of paired (right and left) openings in the front and sides of the head and neck of every vertebrate embryo, some of which or all may disappear, or some of which may persist as gill-slits or their equivalents; a branchial, pharyngeal, etc., slit.

noun. In optics, the narrow opening through which a beam of light is admitted into the tube of a spectroscope or other optical instrument.

transitive verb. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips

transitive verb. To cut or make a long fissure in or upon.

transitive verb. To cut; to sever; to divide.

3d. pers. sing. pres. of slide.

noun. A long cut; a narrow opening.

noun. See Gill opening, under Gill.

noun. A narrow cut or opening; a slot.

noun. The opening of the vagina.

noun. A derogatory name for a woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

verb. To cut a narrow opening.

verb. To split in two parts.

noun. a narrow fissure

verb. cut a slit into

noun. a long narrow opening

verb. make a clean cut through

noun. a depression scratched or carved into a surface

noun. obscene terms for female genitals

"In fact, as already explained, _every point of the wave which fills the slit is itself a centre of a new wave system which is transmitted in all directions through the ether behind the slit_."

branchial slit  cephalic slits  cleft  double slit  slit bar-sight  

Fanny  cleft  crack  crevice  cut  

Brit  Grit  Kit  Pitt  Pritt  

aperture  arch  crack  cut  fissure  

abrade  abysm  abyss  aggravated  amputate  

slide  slitting  

slits  slitted  slitting