Slopping

Don't be slopping about with him. You'd better give him a thick ear.

[…] the birth of Christ, when these long valleys […] were still extensive lakes, sloppings of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass away from the evaporation of the sun's rays and the labour of mankind.

It is only fair to say that they could have been removed by hand in the dark, but on examining the table, I was unable to see any of those sloppings of water which might be expected to follow such an operation.