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The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic] A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. Milton.

o abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors. I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage. Shak.

imp. & p. p. of Quench. Chaucer.

Act of quenching or extingishing. [Obs.]

To quench or extinguish. [Obs.] R. Field.

ed heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and manganese, etc. They are chiefly used as high-speed steels. -- Self`-hard"en*ed, a.

To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. "And slake the heavenly fire." Spenser. It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. Shak.

To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake. [Obs. or Scot.]

To cause to reel or totter. That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person. Shak.

To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. [Obs.]

Unquenchable; insatiable. [Obs.] Shak.

To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame. Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which they do not reflect or transmit. Sir I. Newton.

A quicksand. Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land. Milton.

icts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

icts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire. Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench. Bacon.