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by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

See Lake dwellers, under Lake.

A little lake. Southey.

One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n.

The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.

Dried cow dung used as fuel.[Prov. Eng.] Simmonds.

o have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husbandman.

To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. "And slake the heavenly fire." Spenser. It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. Shak.

Not capable of being slaked.

A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.

Not slaked; unslacked; as, an unslaked thirst; unslaked lime.

infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

ivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

nus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

es with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.