Unslaked

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Of lime: Unslacked.

1598.  Florio, Calce vergine, vnslaked lyme.

1651.  French, Distill., I. 4. Take unslaked Lime, and Linseed Oil, mix them well together.

1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., V. xii. 67. Plaster … four parts, of Unslak’d Lime one part.

1816.  Scott, Old Mort., xxi. Would ye build a wall with unslaked mortar?

1837.  J. T. Smith, Vicat’s Mortars, 79. Those hydraulic mixtures, which are used unslaked, and ground previous to mixture.

1889.  Science-Gossip, XXV. 151/1. The leaves are … chewed with a little unslaked lime.

  2.  Unrelaxed.

a. 1625.  Fletcher, Chances, II. ii. A likely man, a man Made up like Hercules, unslak’d with service.

  3.  Of thirst, etc. (See SLAKE v.¹ 10.)

1692.  Dryden, Don Sebastian, III. i. Her desires new rouz’d, And yet unslak’d, will kindle in her fansy.

1805.  [see UNSLACKED 3].

1818.  Byron, Ch. Har., IV. cxxiv. We gasp away…; unfound the boon, unslaked the thirst.

1874.  Farrar, Christ, 36. Stung by remorse, yet still unslaked with murder.