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Becalm   Listen
verb
Becalm  v. t.  (past & past part. becalmed; pres. part. becalming)  
1.
To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. "Soft whispering airs... becalm the mind."
2.
To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.





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"Becalm" Quotes from Famous Books



... (in Greek and Latin), bound partly in black leather, with gilt edges; and for Le prose dil Bembo, a volume in small quarto with a parchment binding.[170] This throws light on Luis de Leon's progress as a linguist. An imprisoned man who asks for an Italian book to becalm his fever may be safely presumed to know that language. In or about 1569 when Arias Montano read aloud the anonymous Italian work which disturbed Zuniga's scrupulous conscience, Luis de Leon, though of course able to catch the author's drift, did not really know Italian at ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly


Words linked to "Becalm" :   stabilise, calm, steady, stabilize


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