v. t. & i. [ AS. āslacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. Slake. ] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The bernicle goose; -- now called barnacle goose and also called clack goose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Dried cow dung used as fuel.[ Prov. Eng. ] Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Flaked p. pr. & vb. n. Flaking. ] To form into flakes. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. flaki, fleki, Dan. flage, D. vlaak. ] 1. A paling; a hurdle. [ prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. flakna to flake off, split, flagna to flake off, Sw. flaga flaw, flake, flake plate, Dan. flage snowflake. Cf. Flag a flat stone. ] 1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. “Lottle flakes of scurf.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. [ 1913 Webster ]

With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a person who behaves strangely; a flaky{ 2 } person. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

Flake knife (Archæol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. --
Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. --
Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales. (b) The trisnitrate of bismuth. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etym. uncertain; cf. 1st Fake. ] A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.

Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate. F. T. Bullen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state of being flaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. [ 1913 Webster ]

What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. prone to strange or erratic behavior; -- of persons. [ PJC ]

3. odd, unpredictable or unconventional; offbeat; whacky; -- of behavior. [ PJC ]

4. unpredictable, erratic, or unreliable; -- of machinery, especially electronic devices. “a flaky computer board.” [ PJC ]

‖n. Sap green. [ China ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. laque, fr. Per. See Lac. ] A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. laken. ] A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ AS. lācan, læcan, to spring, jump, lāc play, sport, or fr. Icel. leika to play, sport; both akin to Goth. laikan to dance. √120. Cf. Knowledge. ] To play; to sport. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea, Icel. lögr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. la`kkos pond, tank. Cf. Loch, Lough. ] A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland. --
Lake dwellings (Archaeol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See Crannog. --
Lake fly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvae live in lakes. --
Lake herring (Zool.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii). --
Lake poets,
Lake school, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and lakists. --
Lake sturgeon (Zool.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food. --
Lake trout (Zool.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See Namaycush. --
Lake whitefish. (Zool.) See Whitefish. --
Lake whiting (Zool.), an American whitefish (Coregonus Labradoricus), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lake dwellers, under Lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. land bordering a lake. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A little lake. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that is connected with a lake or lakes, as in habitation, toil, etc.: (a) One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n. (b) (Zool.) A fish living in, or taken from, a lake, esp. the namaycush. (c) A lake steamer or canal boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bridge tender . . . thought the Cowies “a little mite” longer than that laker. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the shore of a lake.
Syn. -- lakeside. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the shore of a lake.
Syn. -- lakeshore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ Hind. lak, lākh, lāksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh. ] One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [ Written also lack. ] [ East Indies ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Lac, one hundred thousand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ladykin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Lack. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a lake. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Lake the pigment. ] Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Slaked p. pr. & vb. n. Slaking. ] [ OE. slaken to render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See Slack, v. & a. ] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. “And slake the heavenly fire.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. “His flame did slake.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To abate; to become less decided. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To slacken; to become relaxed. “When the body's strongest sinews slake.” [ R. ] Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slake trough, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith cools a forging or tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being slaked. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) Slacken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Snowbird, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (Leucoium vernum, Leucoium aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not slaked; unslacked; as, an unslaked thirst; unslaked lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little villa. [ R. ] Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]