Definition of allay

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Allay (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.

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Slocken :: Slocken (v. t.) To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
Quiet :: Quiet (v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief..
Allegge :: Allegge (v. t.) See Alegge and Allay.
Alegge :: Alegge (v. t.) To allay or alleviate; to lighten.
Cool :: Cool (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate..
Legge :: Legge (v. t.) To lighten; to allay.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..
Allayer :: Allayer (n.) One who, or that which, allays..
Tantalus :: Tantalus (n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them..
Quell :: Quell (v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul..
Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative..
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions..
Allay :: Allay (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.
Contemper :: Contemper (v. t.) To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.
Slake :: Slake (a.) To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst..
Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..
Refrigerant :: Refrigerant (n.) That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively..
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..
Antispasmodic :: Antispasmodic (n.) A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.
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