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To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

e, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied. Knight.

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

raight line; to crook or be curving; to bow. The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. Milton.

Twice folded together. Henslow.

whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak.

A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

Having the shape of a sausage. Henslow.

A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] Dickens.

violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.

ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead body. -- Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consec…

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.

An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.