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To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

oes not depend for its execution upon any event provided for by the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of any such event. Burrill.

ite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since. We since become the slaves to one man's lust. B. Jonson.

To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. Addison.

hile in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl.

To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.

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

To go out; to become extinct. "His flame did slake." Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n.

. To sleep away, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time. -- To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.

by which a dog is held; -- so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand. We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer. Sir S. Baker.

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

ope and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

uliar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.

ishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.

To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. Mortimer.

To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.

To become sober; -- often with down. Vance gradually sobered down. Ld. Lytton.

To be seethed; to become sodden.