Slack
Definition of Slack
n. | 1. | Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. | | 1. | A valley, or small, shallow dell. | a. | 1. | Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope. | | 2. | Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. | | 3. | Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. | | 4. | Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack.Slack in stays | (Naut.) slow in going about, as a ship. |
| adv. | 1. | Slackly; as, slack dried hops. | n. | 1. | The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. | v. i. | 1. | To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. | | 2. | To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. | | 3. | To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks. | | 4. | To abate; to become less violent. | | 5. | To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens. | | 6. | To languish; to fail; to flag. | | 7. | To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. | v. t. | 1. | To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. | | 2. | To neglect; to be remiss in. | | 3. | To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime. | | 4. | To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry. | | 5. | To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease. |
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