slime

slime is a Noun

Definition:

[1] Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

[2] Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.

[3] Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

[4] Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.

[5] A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. Goldsmith. Slime eel. (Zoöl.) See 1st Hag, 4. -- Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.