slip or let
slip (a sporting term), to loose the hounds from the slip. See the preceding article.
“Before the game is a-foot, thou still let'st slip,”
1 HENRY IV., i. 3. 278
;
“let slip the dogs of war,”
JULIUS CAESAR, iii. 1. 274
;
“Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound,”
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, v. 2.
52.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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