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Lentando :: Lentando (a.) Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.

Slacking :: Slacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slacke.

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry..

Relax :: Relax (n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews..

Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.

Statable :: Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation..

Crewel :: Crewel (n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery..

Swiftfoot :: Swifter (v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer..

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime..

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To abate; to become less violent.

Relent :: Relent (v. t.) To slacken; to abate.

Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Laxation :: Laxation (n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened..

Air-slacked :: Air-slacked (a.) Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime..

Slakin :: Slakin (n.) Slacken.

Slackness :: Slackness (n.) The quality or state of being slack.

Check :: Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand..

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

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