slake

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Slake the lime slowly so as to get a smooth, thick cream.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William

Construe: Slake with tears and sighs a wound in thy heart's core—a wound more fierce than his.'

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I have no objection to suffering The Lady's Last Slake to be engraved, but, on the contrary, should be happy to do anything which might contribute to add to the reputation of my deceased friend.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

Slake the lime in a separate vessel by pouring about 5 oz. of water over it.

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.

Thanne was Sr. John Slake at Westm’, dene of the kynges chapell, arested and put in prison in Ludgate, and othere certeyn monkes of Westm’.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir