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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



... left before they dare stoop their heads to drink. Even then the herd will not drink together, but a portion will act as watchers, to give notice of an enemy should it be discerned while their comrades slake their thirst. ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker
... Richard, meantime, learnt to know and love his Prince with a more devoted love, if that were possible, and to grieve the more at the persistent hatred of his brothers, who, utterly uncomprehending their father's high purposes themselves, sought blindly to slake their vengeance for the ruin they had themselves provoked, and upon one who mourned him far more truly ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... knees and thanked God for my marvellous escape. Then I took out my watch and felt my feeble pulse, which beat forty-nine. Then I drank, slowly at first and then more freely. A deal of water was needed to slake such a thirst; I drank and drank until at length I was satisfied. Then I sat down to rest and felt that I was reviving quickly. After a few minutes my pulse had risen to fifty-six. My hands, which had just been withered and hard as wood, softened, ...
— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin
... certain sides of the "intellectual" heart, but it could not slake the thirst for fiction. It was rather natural that the reading public turned to foreign novelists in preference to the native ones. It may be confidently said that three- quarters of what the ordinary Russian novel-reader ...
— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak
... depends on habit. Thus at first The infant takes not kindly to the breast, But before long, its eager thirst Is fain to slake with hearty zest: Thus at the breasts of wisdom day by day With keener ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke


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