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

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..

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..

Inefficient :: Inefficient (a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope..

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

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

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

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

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..

Slackened :: Slackened () of Slacke.

Slakin :: Slakin (n.) Slacken.

Slack :: Slack (n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm..

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..

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