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This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!
If this seems far-fetched, consider that a major American silver polish company began when a Mr. Wright of New Hampshire extricated one of his cows from a slough in a wet part of a field and was tipped off by the whitish mud clinging to the animal's feet to the presence of what proved to be a surprisingly large deposit of calcium-rich diatomaceous earth.
Checking myself out in the dressing-room mirror, I realized that in these pants, I would never again be fearful of that other nightmare of bourgeois life, the moment in which you sense that your middle-class prosperity, your high-tech skills, your credit cards, and the advertising industry all give you license to slough off your work ethic, relax your discipline, and lower your guard.
During the first eight weeks of pregnancy, when the fetus is very small, medications like methotrexate and RU-486 can safely make the uterus slough the placenta and gestational sac.
When a widow, bereft of her husband, and deep in his debts, sought to marry anew, she must first slough off his obligations.
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