Necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass.
Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.
1 On the 17th the wound was much smaller and the slough separating.
2 Into the slough of despond comes Steven Brill's new e-commerce venture Contentville.
3 It is effected in small squads, as the slough is flung aside.
4 From that day forth, Tuscany sank lower and lower in the slough .
5 Above, the impervious canopy of leaves; beneath, a black and root-encumbered slough .
6 It is the very cast-off slough of a polluted and shameless press.
7 But she was going now to take it out of the slough .
8 Under this slough appears the firm, chestnut-brown horn integument of the chrysalis.
9 There was a level space of sward between us and the slough .
10 You cannot imagine the slough of despond I had to pass through.
11 Nothing to do but let the flesh slough off and then amputate.
12 Look at it then, when the beautiful serpent has cast her slough .
13 She unconsciously assisted him from this slough of shame by saying suddenly:
14 He knew a way out through a slough and across a lake.
15 Some day you'll slough it the way a butterfly does its shell.
16 I slough off my backpack, then take off my sunglasses and cap.
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