Definition of slack

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Slack (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service..

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Slack :: Slack (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell..
Slackening :: Slackening () of Slacke.
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 end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage..
Slacking :: Slacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slacke.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens..
Remiss :: Remiss (a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime..
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..
Surgeful :: Surge (n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan)..
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
Slack :: Slack (n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail..
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..
Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Slack :: Slack (v. t.) Alt. of Slacke.
Slackly :: Slackly (adv.) In a slack manner.
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..
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