slurred, ppl. a.
(slɜːd)
[f. slur v.1]
Run together, rendered indistinct, blurred, etc.
| 1746 Tansur New Mus. Gram. 99 Ty'd or slur'd Notes. 1827 Tate Grk. Metres in Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 446 It may justify our adoption of slurred Anapest and slurred Dactyl, as terms not inappropriate for that purpose. 1843 Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. iv. ii. §16 It is quite a mistake to suppose that slurred or melting lines are characteristic of distant large objects. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect I. 5 They are faded and gone—pieces of slurred paper, nothing more. |