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

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

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope..

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather..

Slack :: Slack (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell..

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

Slack :: Slack (v. t.) Alt. of Slacke.

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

Lag :: Lag (v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.

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

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

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..

Slatch :: Slatch (n.) The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

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

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.

Slab :: Slab (n.) The slack part of a sail.

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

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

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)..

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..

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