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Word Meanings - SLACKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix

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  • RELENT
    1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • RELAXANT
    A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
  • REMIT
    1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
  • ABATER
    One who, or that which, abates.
  • ABATE
    1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
  • RELAXATIVE
    Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • FETTERLESS
    Free from fetters. Marston.
  • DIVERTING
    Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
  • SHACKLE
    1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
  • UNSTRAINED
    1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
  • LOOSEN
    Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • UNSTRIATED
    Nonstriated; unstriped.
  • RELAX
    1. To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax. His knees relax with toil. Pope. 2. To abate in severity; to become less rigorous. In others she relaxed again, And governed with a looser rein. Prior. 3. To remit attention or effort;
  • CONFINELESS
    Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
  • REMITTEE
    One to whom a remittance is sent.
  • CONSTRAINED
    Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
  • ENERVATE
    To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
  • SUPREMITY
    Supremacy. Fuller.
  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • EREMITE
    A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
  • HEREMITICAL
    Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
  • INDIVERTIBLE
    Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.
  • UNLOOSEN
    To loosen; to unloose.
  • PENTREMITES
    A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
  • DIABATERIAL
    Passing over the borders. Mitford.

 

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