What is "unslaked"

Usage examples of "unslaked".

She was a pool the winter paves with ice That the wild hunter in the hills must leave With thirst unslaked in the brief southward sun.

Gwalchmai knew from long experience that unslaked lime, scalding water, or boiling oil was the cause.

As the storming parties approached they were swept by artillery and musketry, and as they attempted to climb the breaches, boiling water, pitch and oil, molten lead and unslaked lime were poured upon them.

Jim had been led to suppose they would be, on the exterminating effects of lime upon slugs and snails in its different conditions of slaked and unslaked, ground and in the lump.

Our furnace eke of calcination, And of waters albification, Unslaked lime, chalk, and *glair of an ey,* *egg-white Powders diverse, ashes, dung, piss, and clay, Seared pokettes, saltpetre, and vitriol.

Our lamps that burned by day and burned by night To bring about our end, if but we might, Our furnace, too, white-hot for calcination, And waters all prepared for albication, Unslaked lime, chalk, and white of egg, I say, Powders diverse, and ashes, dung, piss, clay, Little waxed bags, saltpetre, vitriol.

A creaking cart came up the slope and unloaded butt after butt of fresh, unslaked lime, tipped out in a grey-white mountain beside the road.

The breakfast-parlour was the most cheerful room in Ashgrove Cottage, and although the builders had ruined the garden with heaps of sand and unslaked lime and bricks, and although the damp walls of the new wing in which this parlour stood still smelt of plaster, the sun poured in, blazing on the covered silver dishes and lighting the face of Sophie Aubrey as she sat there waiting for her husband.

As the storming parties approached they were swept by artillery and musketry, and as they attempted to climb the breaches, boiling water, pitch and oil, molten lead and unslaked lime were poured upon them.

To make a clime, the operator made a paste or poultice of unslaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, and spread it upon a piece of leather, which was then bound tightly upon the leg.

Curiously, he paused and bent to read the label, half obscured by white powder: UNSLAKED LIME.