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Webster 1913 Edition
Slake
Slake
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Slaked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slaking
.] 1.
To allay; to quench; to extinguish;
“And slake the heavenly fire.” as, to
. slake
thirstSpenser.
It could not
slake
mine ire nor ease my heart. Shakespeare
2.
To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack;
as, to
. slake
limeSlake
,Verb.
I.
1.
To go out; to become extinct.
“His flame did slake.” Sir T. Browne.
2.
To abate; to become less decided.
[R.]
Shak.
3.
To slacken; to become relaxed.
“When the body’s strongest sinews slake.” [R.]
Sir J. Davies.
4.
To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place;
as, the lime
. slakes
Slake trough
, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith cools a forging or tool.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slake
SLAKE
,Verb.
T.
SLAKE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To go out; to become extinct.2.
To grow less tense. [a mistake for slack.]Definition 2024
slake
slake
English
Verb
slake (third-person singular simple present slakes, present participle slaking, simple past and past participle slaked)
- (intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts. [11th-17thc.]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed or loose. [11th-16thc.]
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir John Davies
- When the body's strongest sinews slake.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir John Davies
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force. [14th-19thc.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter Primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
- wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter Primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go out; to become extinct.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Browne
- His flame did slake.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Browne
- (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish. [from 14thc.]
- 1991, David Koulack, To catch a dream: explorations of dreaming, page 98:
- In that study, some of the subjects had dreams in which they were slaking their thirst, very much like the dreams of convenience Freud described.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser
- slake the heavenly fire
-
- (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid. [from 14thc.]
- 1961, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.14:
- Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
- 1961, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.14:
- (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
- The lime slakes.
- (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
- to slake lime
Translations
To become less intense
|
To satisfy thirst
To cool with water