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To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

One who, or that which, allays.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

See Alegge and Allay. [Obs.]

To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

A remedy to check or allay vomiting.

Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.

A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assu…

A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.

To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope.

To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften. [Obs.] The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. Johnson.

To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate. We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. Shak. To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

h hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak.

To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.