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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
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1828 Definition
SLACK, a.
1913 Definition
Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
Raymond. A valley, or small, shallow dell.
[Prov. Eng.] Grose. Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack
hand.
Milton. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence
or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or
service.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. 2 Pet. iii. 9. Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow;
moderate; easy; as, business is slack.
"With slack
pace." Chaucer.
C(?)sar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed. Milton. Slack in stays (Naut.), slow in going about, as a ship. -- Slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide. -- Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams. Syn. -- Loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated; diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull. Slackly; as,
slack dried hops.
The part of anything that
hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope
or of a sail.
To become slack] to be
made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet
cord slackens in dry weather.
To be remiss or backward; to be
negligent.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical
combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
To abate; to become less violent.
Whence these raging fires To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as,
a current of water slackens.
To languish; to fail; to flag.
To end; to cease; to desist; to
slake.
[Obs.]
That through your death your lineage should slack. Chaucer. They will not of that firste purpose slack. Chaucer. To render slack; to make less tense or firm;
as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40) To neglect; to be remiss in.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Slack not the pressage. Dryden. To deprive of cohesion by combining
chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
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.
I should be grieved, young prince, to think my
presence In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace. South. With such delay To cause to become less intense; to
mitigate; to abate; to ease.
To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain 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. | ||||||||
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