noun.
The finer screenings of coal; coal-dirt; especially, the dirt of bituminous coal.
noun.
A sloping hillside.
noun.
An opening between hills; a hollow where no water runs.
noun.
A common.
noun.
A morass.
noun.
The interval of slack water, when the tide is at rest, either at high or low tide; sluggishness of the current, at that time See slack, adjective, 2.
noun.
plural A sailor's loose trousers.
noun.
Feeble, foolish talk.
To become slack or slow; slacken; become slower: as, a current of water slacks.
To become less tense, firm, or rigid; decrease in tension.
To abate; become less violent.
To become languid; languish; fail; flag.
To make slack or slow; retard.
To make slack or less tense; loosen; relax: as, to slack a rope or a bandage.
To relax; let go the hold of; lose or let slip.
To make less intense, violent, severe, rapid, etc.; abate; moderate; diminish; hence, to mitigate; relieve.
To be remiss in or neglectful of; neglect.
To make remiss or neglectful.
To slake (lime). See slake, transitive verb, 3.
To cool in water.
To retard the speed of, as a railway-train.
Slow in movement; tardy.