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Take-up :: Take-up (n.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch..

Slake :: Slake (a.) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime..

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

Slackly :: Slackly (adv.) In a slack manner.

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..

Foreslack :: Foreslack (v. t.) See Forslack.

Bitt :: Bitt (v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away..

Quicklime :: Quicklime (a.) Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2..

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens..

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

Efficient :: Efficient (n.) Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power..

Rallentando :: Rallentando (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks..

Slackening :: Slackening () of Slacke.

Slack :: Slack (a.) Alt. of Slacke.

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

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.

Lax :: Lax (v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber..

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