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Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To abate; to become less violent.

Laxation :: Laxation (n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened..

Slack :: Slack (a.) Alt. of Slacke.

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand..

Rallentando :: Rallentando (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

Slackness :: Slackness (n.) The quality or state of being slack.

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens..

Slackly :: Slackly (adv.) In a slack manner.

Slack :: Slack (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell..

Slack :: Slack (v. t.) Alt. of Slacke.

Slakin :: Slakin (n.) Slacken.

Statable :: Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation..

Slake :: Slake (a.) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime..

Check :: Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

Inefficient :: Inefficient (a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator..

Quicklime :: Quicklime (a.) Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2..

Slatch :: Slatch (n.) The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope..

Slack :: Slack (adv.) Slackly; as, slack dried hops..

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