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slacked, ppl. a.|slækt|
[f. slack v.]
1. Retarded; rendered slower.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. lxxi. 201 A graue Poem..wings the Soule vp higher, then the slacked Pace of Prose.
2. Of lime: Slaked.
1700Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1749) 152 The Body instantly dissolv'd and fell into Dust like slack'd Lime. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 367 Slack'd powdered Stone Lime must be by degrees sifted on. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 318 Slacked lime is merely a combination of lime, with about one third of its weight of water. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 645/2 It falls to powder, like slacked quicklime. |