advb. phr. Obs. [Derivation unknown. ? erroneously for aslont.] Aslant, obliquely.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 6. Acyde, or a-slowte, oblique.
c. 1460. Russell, Bk. Nurture, in Babees Bk. (1868), 155. The salt lamprey, goben hit a slout vij. pecis y assigne.
