Word Meanings - SLACKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

• Slackening
  of Slacken
• Weatherboarding
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
• WEATHERDRIVEN
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.
• Weather-bound
  Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
• WEATHERFEND
  To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.
• Weathercock
  A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.
• WEATHERMAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather, and the direction
• Slackness
  The quality or state of being slack.
• Weather-driven
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
• WEATHERSIGNAL
  Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.
• Decreased
  of Decrease
• Weather-fend
  To defend from the weather; to shelter.
• WEATHERSTATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering instrument

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