ALLAY

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

2.
v.

To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak.

3.
v.

To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. "When the rage allays." Shak.

4.
n.

Alleviation; abatement; check. [Obs.]

5.
n.

Alloy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

6.
v.

To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.

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