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Slaking, Slaiking, vbl.n. [Late ME and e.m.E. slakyng (c1400), Slak(e v.] The action of Slak(e v. in senses 3 and 4.(1) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5496.
Of sorrow, than, salbe na slakying a1605 Montg. Flyt. 336 (T).
The stane worme, the ringworme, not slaiking of swame 1590–1 Crim. Trials I ii 237.
Quhilkis mwildis sche coniureit … for staying and slaiking of grinding the tyme of hir birth 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 163/470.
Kingis suarming all uith lyce … Nor yett oft chaingit beddis can giue thaime slaiking any uay(2) 1595 Lanark B. Rec. 110.
To intreit … qwhat moyan can be obtenit … for slaiking his ir 1688 Sinclair Doctrine Sphere 85.
Their summer is rather to be called a slender slaking of the cold
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