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