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

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..

Slack :: Slack (n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail..

Tight :: Tight (superl.) Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out..

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

Take-up :: Take-up (n.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch..

Relax :: Relax (n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews..

Unslaked :: Unslaked (a.) Not slaked; unslacked; as, an unslaked thirst; unslaked lime..

Bitt :: Bitt (v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away..

Lime :: Lime (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc..

Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope..

Lentando :: Lentando (a.) Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage..

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

Slakin :: Slakin (n.) Slacken.

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

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..

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