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Show Many Forms of "Slug." "Slug," ns lined In connection with collego football, Is own bother to tho i:ngl!nh "slog" and akin to "slay." Absolutely Ab-solutely different in origin as in menn-Ing, menn-Ing, is the other verb, "slug," allied to "slouch" and "slack," which Spenser used intransitively when he wrote of "slugging all night In a cabin," and Milton transitively when ho declared that episcopacy "wors-.s and sluggs tho most learned and scorning religious relig-ious of our ministers." Nobody knows to which ot tho two families "slug," a crudely shaped bullet, belongs. Is It something with which ono slogs? Or something ns heavy as a "slug," or "sluggish" person? Or was It supposed sup-posed to rcsemblo the slug that crawls In gardens? |