slink

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To move in a quiet furtive manner; sneak.
• intransitive verb To give birth to prematurely.
• adjective Born prematurely.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To sneak; steal or move quietly: generally with off or away.
• noun A sneaking fellow.
• noun A greedy starveling.
• noun A cheat.
• noun A small piece of wet meadow-land.
• Thin; slender; lean; starved and hungry: as, slink cattle.
• Sneaky; mean.
• noun The skin of a still-born calf. Also slunk.
• To cast prematurely: said of a female boast.
• To miscarry; cast the young prematurely: said of a female boast.
• noun An animal, especially a calf, prematurely brought forth.
• noun The flesh of an animal prematurely brought forth; the veal of a calf killed immediately after being calved; bob-veal.
• noun A bastard child.
• noun A thin or poor and bony fish, especially such a mackerel. See mackerel.
• Produced prematurely: as, a slink calf.
• Immature and unfit for human food: as, slink veal; slink meat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
• transitive verb To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
• transitive verb To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts.
• adjective Produced prematurely.
• adjective Scot. Thin; lean.
• noun The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
• noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. A thievish fellow; a sneak.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb intransitive To sneak about furtively.
• verb transitive To give birth to an animal prematurely.
• noun The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
• noun UK, Scotland, dialect A thievish fellow; a sneak.

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• verb walk stealthily