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Steamboat :: Steam (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc..

Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief..

Assuage :: Assuage (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire..

Gizzard :: Gizzard (n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium..

Temper :: Temper (v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm..

Soften :: Soften (v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate..

Softener :: Softener (n.) One who, or that which, softens..

Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors..

Euphemism :: Euphemism (n.) A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

Hectograph :: Hectograph (n.) A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin..

Emollient :: Emollient (a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.

Indigested :: Indigested (a.) Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam..

Mute :: Mute (n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone..

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing..

Softening :: Softening () a. & n. from Soften, v..

Unsteel :: Unsteel (v. t.) To disarm; to soften.

Emollition :: Emollition (n.) The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.

Ramollescence :: Ramollescence (n.) A softening or mollifying.

Lithe :: Lithe (a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

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