Drunk. A slang word which has fallen into disuse.

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1837.  

        Night is the time for those,
  Who, when they take their wine,
By redness of the nose,
  Or any other sign,
Give evidence, whence we conclude,
That they ’re unquestionably ‘slew’d!’
Knick. Mag., ix. 201 (Feb.).    

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1837.  According to the Philadelphia Ledger, a man has been found in the gutter of one of the streets of that city who, like Goliath of Gath, was slewed with a sling.—Balt. Comml. Transcript, Sept. 7, p. 2/1.

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1846.  We ‘bolted in,’ and horresco referens, found Frank, as he expressed it, “not drunk, but shlightly shlewed.”—Yale Lit. Mag., xi. 282.

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1856.  “[Goliath] was a giant, but he had a weak head.” “How so?” “Why, to get so easily slewed.” “That was owing to the strength of the sling.”—Weekly Oregonian, Aug. 13.

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