BECALM

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.

2.
v.

To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.


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