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Lenitive :: Lenitive (a.) Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient..

Grain :: Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.)..

Melt :: Melt (v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken..

Malaxation :: Malaxation (n.) The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.

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

Softened :: Softened (imp. & p. p.) of Softe.

Pultaceous :: Pultaceous (a.) Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

Quirboilly :: Quirboilly (n.) Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor..

Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them..

Malaxate :: Malaxate (v. t.) To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.

Melt :: Melt (v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear..

Emolliate :: Emolliate (a.) To soften; to render effeminate.

Stuffy :: Stuffing (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

Digester :: Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them..

Temperate :: Temperate (v. t.) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.

Inteneration :: Inteneration (n.) The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault..

Thaw :: Thaw (v. i.) To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality..

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