Slake

  • 61Aslake — A*slake ([.a]*sl[=a]k ), v. t. & i. [AS. [=a]slacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. {Slake}.] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 62Slack — Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slacked}, {Slackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slacking}, {Slackening}.] [See {Slack}, a.] 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry… …

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  • 63Slacked — Slack Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slacked}, {Slackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slacking}, {Slackening}.] [See {Slack}, a.] 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in… …

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  • 64Slacken — Slack Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slacked}, {Slackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slacking}, {Slackening}.] [See {Slack}, a.] 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in… …

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  • 65Slackened — Slack Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slacked}, {Slackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slacking}, {Slackening}.] [See {Slack}, a.] 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in… …

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  • 66Slackening — Slack Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slacked}, {Slackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slacking}, {Slackening}.] [See {Slack}, a.] 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in… …

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  • 67Slacking — Slack Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slacked}, {Slackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slacking}, {Slackening}.] [See {Slack}, a.] 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in… …

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  • 68Slock — Slock, Slocken Slock en, v. t. To quench; to allay; to slake. See {Slake}. [Obs. or Scot.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 69Slocken — Slock Slock, Slocken Slock en, v. t. To quench; to allay; to slake. See {Slake}. [Obs. or Scot.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 70Gibbet — See also Halifax gibbet, a kind of guillotine. The reconstructed gallows style gibbet at Caxton Gibbet, in Cambridgeshire, England. A gibbet (pronounced /ˈdʒɪbɪt/) is a gallows type structure from which the dead bodies of exec …

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