(cooking) A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food. / Drool (especially if abundant). / (usually in the plural) A generous or abundant quantity.

a purplish black colour.

To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well. / (often followed by with) To apply generously upon. / To squander.

A dark bluish grey colour.

Of a dark bluish grey colour.

Of a dark, bluish-grey colour.

A dark, bluish-grey colour.

One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings. / Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.

(uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

Having the bluish-grey/gray colour of slate.