sloken

Knox's passion against 'idolatry,' beyond all other forms of false religion or irreligion, was fully shared by the mass of his followers, and he tells us that, on this occasion, he worked in private 'rather to mitigate, yea to sloken, that fervency that God had kindled in others.'

John Knox A. Taylor Innes

But ye will get the blue bowl, Robin -- the blue bowl -- that will sloken all their drouth, and prevent the sinful repetition of whipping for an eke of a Saturday at e'en.

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

Robin — the blue bowl — that will sloken all their drouth, and prevent the sinful repetition of whipping for an eke of a Saturday at e’en.

Redgauntlet 2008

It sets the like o’ him, to be bringing a crew of drunken hunters here, when he kens there is but little preparation to sloken his ain drought.”

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

"sloken a body on hot days"; their contempt for tomatoes, so fine to look at with their sunny colors and so disappointing in taste; the miserable cucumbers the "Yankee bodies" ate, though tasteless as rushes; the character of the Yankees, etcetera.

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

GLOSS: par] when; feste] fastened; trauel] toil; louyng] object of love, beloved; sloken] quench; bote] remedy; settel] seat; lyft] lifted; hee] high; sle] deceitful?

Love is Life 1917

It sets the like o 'him, to be bringing a crew of drunken hunters here, when he kens there is but little preparation to sloken his ain drought. "

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801