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See Simulacrum. [Obs.]

earance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense. Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum. Thackeray.

A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.

To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion. [Written also slakin.]

In a slack manner. Trench.

The quality or state of being slack.

See Parrilin.

elieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief. In business of mirth and of solace. Chaucer. The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion. Rambler.

The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces. [R.]

Affording solace; as, a solacious voice. [Obs.] Bale.

Stalactic.

Like a stalactite; resembling a stalactite.

or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.

A stalactite. [Obs.] Woodward.

Of or pertaining to a stalactite; having the form or characters of a stalactite; stalactic.

Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.

A lace for fastening stays.

See the Note under Lac.