Vocabulary : Slab-sided to Slade
Slab-sided : Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.Slack : Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. ;; A valley, or small, shallow dell. ;; Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope. ;; Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. ;; Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. ;; Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. ;; Slackly; as, slack dried hops. ;; The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. ;; Alt. of Slacken ;; Alt. of Slacken
Slacked : of Slacken
Slacken : To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. ;; To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. ;; To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks. ;; To abate; to become less violent. ;; To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens. ;; To languish; to fail; to flag. ;; To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. ;; To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. ;; To neglect; to be remiss in. ;; To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime. ;; To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry. ;; To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease. ;; A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
Slackened : of Slacken
