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

See 1st Hag, 4.

Sleek; smooth. [Prov. Eng.]

The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines. [Local, U. S.]

The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

Same as Slickensides.

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

Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.

The snakebird, 1.

Speaking softly; having a mild or gentle voice; hence, mild; affable.

A toll. See Soc, n., 2. [Obs.] Great sooken had this miller, out of doubt. Chaucer.

A net for catching crabs. Halliwell.

A theater. [Slang] Byron.

ed States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.

Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.

Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloq. U.S.] Lowell.

Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.

p. p. of Strike. Shak.

The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.