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portion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.

A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.

A porpoise.

Black as pitch or tar.

A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent. With not a plack in the pocket of the poet. Prof. Wilson.

ng or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.

A Polander. Shak.

lachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.

One who polishes shoes.

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.

Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.

See Wallachian.

The European water ousel, or dipper.

of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant l…

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

ight, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.