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Definition of SLAKE

Slake
Slake Slake, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaking.] [OE. slaken to render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See Slack, v. & a.] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. ``And slake the heavenly fire.' --Spenser. It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. --Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.

Meaning of SLAKE from wikipedia

- Look up slaking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slaking may refer to: Slaking (geology), the process in which earth materials disintegrate and crumble...
- Calcium hydroxide (traditionally called slaked lime) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(OH)2. It is a colorless crystal or white powder...
- The splake or slake (Salvelinus namaycush × Salvelinus fontinalis) is a hybrid of two fish species resulting from the crossing of a male brook trout (Salvelinus...
- Slaking is the process in which earth materials disintegrate and crumble when exposed to moisture. The term can be applied to natural geologic formations...
- still strongly alkaline) slaked lime or hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2), the process of which is called slaking of lime. When the term lime...
- Nicholas Slake was the Dean of Wells during 1398. He was appointed: Prebendary of Erdington in Bridgnorth 1394 Prebendary of Shirecote in Tamworth Prebendary...
- Slake's Limbo is a novel for young adults by Felice Holman, first published in 1974. The book is about a young adolescent boy, Aremis Slake, who runs...
- Øyvind Slåke (born 17 February 1965) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Slåke heads the Norwegian Labour Party's Parliamentary Secretariat...
- The Gyrwe's name means "fen dwellers", perhaps in reference to Jarrow Slake (a now-drained wetland that lay at the confluence of the Tyne and the Don)...
- original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2010. "India looks to Burma to slake growing thirst for gas". The Christian Science Monitor. 26 April 2006. Archived...