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Lull :: Lull (v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls..

Let-up :: Let-up (n.) Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up..

Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.

Rabate :: Rabate (v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk..

Quell :: Quell (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.

Discount :: Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills..

Assuage :: Assuage (v. i.) To abate or subside.

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a)..

Subsidence :: Subside (v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided..

Rabbate :: Rabbate (v. t.) To abate or diminish.

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To blunt.

Rebate :: Rebate (v. i.) To abate; to withdraw.

Cooler :: Cooler (n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement..

Abate :: Abate (n.) Abatement.

Abatable :: Abatable (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

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