Definition of allay

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Allay (v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

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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..
Anodyne :: Anodyne (a.) Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings..
Antispasmodic :: Antispasmodic (n.) A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.
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..
Antipyretic :: Antipyretic (a.) Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.
Antiorgastic :: Antiorgastic (a.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.
Atonic :: Atonic (n.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
Acetanilide :: Acetanilide (n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine..
Moderate :: Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind..
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..
Allay :: Allay (n.) Alloy.
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..
Cooling :: Cooling (p.a.) Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.
Unlaid :: Unlaid (a.) Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest.
Delay :: Delay (n.) To allay; to temper.
Cool :: Cool (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate..
Allaying :: Allaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alla.
Charm :: Charm (n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe..
Antemetic :: Antemetic (n.) A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
Slocken :: Slocken (v. t.) To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
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