schlich

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English

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Etymology

From German.

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Noun

schlich (countable and uncountable, plural schlichs)

  1. The finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for schlich”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

German

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Verb

schlich

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of schleichen