slickenv.
rare.
transitive. To make smooth or polished.
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1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. i. iv. 442 The Eban stone which Goldsmiths vse to slicken their gold with.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 15 A Band..Starched, Slickened and Smoothed by the care of the Landress.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 292 A Shooemakers polishing stick..is that wherewith they polish and slicken their Leather.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Slickened, polished. Used to describe the appearance found on the planes of bedding where a fault in the strata has occurred.
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