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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Slacken \Slack"en\, n. (Metal.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion. [Written also {slakin}.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. t. 1. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. --Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40) [1913 Webster] 2. To neglect; to be remiss in. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Slack not the pressage. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime. [1913 Webster] 4. To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry. "Rancor for to slack." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms. --Addison. [1913 Webster] In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace. --South. [1913 Webster] With such delay Well plased, they slack their course. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease. [1913 Webster] To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain Of this ill mansion. --Milton. [1913 Webster] {Air-slacked lime}, lime slacked by exposure to the air, in consequence of the absorption of carton dioxide and water, by which it is converted into carbonate of lime and hydrate of lime. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slacked}, {Slackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slacking}, {Slackening}.] [See {Slack}, a.] 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. [1913 Webster] 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. [1913 Webster] 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks. [1913 Webster] 4. To abate; to become less violent. [1913 Webster] Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens. [1913 Webster] 6. To languish; to fail; to flag. [1913 Webster] 7. To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] That through your death your lineage should slack. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] They will not of that firste purpose slack. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Slack From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: slacken v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: {slow}, {slow down}, {slow up}, {slack}, {slacken}] 2: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: {slack}, {slacken}, {slack up}, {relax}] 3: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened" 4: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: {slacken}, {remit}]