Slake
[sleɪk] or [slek]
Definition
(a.) To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
(a.) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.
(v. i.) To go out; to become extinct.
(v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
(v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.
(v. i.) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.
Inputed by Clinton
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Quench, extinguish, allay.[2]. Slack (as lime).
Checker: Walter
Definition
n. a channel through a swamp or morass: slime.
v.t. (Scot.) to besmear.—n. a slabbery daub.
v.t. to quench: to extinguish: to mix with water: to make slack or inactive.—v.i. to go out: to become extinct.—adj. Slake′less that cannot be slaked: inextinguishable.
Typed by Agatha
Examples
- Nice unslaked lime, 1/2 bushel; slake it with boiling water; cover it during the process to keep in the steam. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An old gray-headed man tottered forward to slake his burning thirst. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Having worked at Jarndyce and Jarndyce like a galley slave, I have slaked my thirst for the law and satisfied myself that I shouldn't like it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When chemical action between the water and carbide has ceased, and gas bubbles have stopped forming, slaked lime is all that is left of the dark gray crystals which were put into the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The slaked lime, formed while the gas was generated, collects at the bottom of the tanks and is removed from time to time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I slaked my thirst at the brook; and then lying down, was overcome by sleep. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- When the wrath of the hater of the unrighteous was not slaked even in blood, and yet found favour? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Melt in a water bath, and add 10 parts of slaked lime. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Checker: Rosalind