Slag furnace, or Slag hearth (Metal.), a furnace, or hearth, for
extracting lead from slags or poor ore. -- Slag wool, mineral wool. See
under Mineral.
Slag"gy (?), a. Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag; as, slaggy
cobalt.
Slaie (?), n. [See Sley.] A weaver's reed; a sley.
Slake (?), 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.
It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
Shak.
2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take
place; to slack; as, to slake lime.
Slake, v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. "His flame did slake."
Sir T. Browne.