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Slake   Listen
verb
Slake  v. t.  (past & past part. slaked; pres. part. slaking)  
1.
To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. "And slake the heavenly fire." "It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart."
2.
To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.


Slake  v. i.  
1.
To go out; to become extinct. "His flame did slake."
2.
To abate; to become less decided. (R.)
3.
To slacken; to become relaxed. "When the body's strongest sinews slake." (R.)
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.





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"Slake" Quotes from Famous Books



... wolves and bears were by no means rare visitors in those pristine forests. Or we may picture to ourselves their parents and elders, after a long summer-day spent in hunting the wild-boar, the bear, or the more timid deer, rejoicing to slake their thirst, and refresh themselves with the cool and pleasant, though somewhat crude fruit, of the plum and bullace trees; and in doing so, we may perhaps come nearer to having some just idea of ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 - Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 • Various
... wanteth in sense he supplies in history. His disposition is never but shamefully unthankful, for unless he have all he hath nothing. It must be a large draught, whereof he will not say that those few drops do not slake but inflame him. So still he thinks himself the worse for small favours. His wit so contrives the likely plots of his promotion, as if he would steal it away without God's knowledge, besides His will. Neither doth he ever look up, and consult in his forecasts with the supreme Moderator of all things, ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various
... rock after flying the whole evening near the Nile to catch flies, to drink, and so prepare itself for the next day's sleep. From time to time black forms with long shadows glided over the still illuminated plain—the jackals, who at this hour frequented the shore to slake their thirst, and often fearlessly showed themselves in troops in the vicinity of the ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... baptised, O my City. I come to slake my thirst in thy Jordan. I come to launch my little skiff, to do my little work, to pay my ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... hostel! 'neath whose mould'ring gable ends In amber draught I slake my noonday thirst ...
— The Astonishing History of Troy Town • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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