Slicken

Q: With Idiots and Angels you've chosen not to apply computer animation or to slicken it up. ❋ Brad Balfour (2010)

Pleasure intensified inside her, burned so bright that perspiration began to slicken her skin. ❋ Leigh, Lora (2008)

She became mindless and stupid and desperate and the thought of having that big, hard body of his pumping in and out of hers made her belly and thighs clench and her sex tingle and slicken. ❋ Nelson, Rhonda (2006)

During the eighties the government had asked the railways to slicken up their act, to get modern, get groovy, get nasty - and the old man and his team had done it. too APPLYING PRESSURE They were aware that the lucrative business traveller was ignoring the railways. ❋ Elton, Ben (1991)

He is immensely pleased at having discovered a huge slicken-sided fault in the lavas of the Turk's Head. ❋ Robert Falcon Scott (1890)

She is therefore for a term of twelve moons not permitted to wear any finery, neither is she permitted to slicken up and comb her head; this to avoid attracting attention. ❋ Unknown (1884)

We spent the night near Silverton, a tourist-happy mining town, so we could jump on the road first thing in the morning, before afternoon thunderstorms had a chance to slicken the pavement. ❋ John Flinn (2010)

He used her new iron to melt wax to slicken the ski bottoms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The combination of sub freezing temperatures and snow showers overnight will slicken up roads once again. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Owen - a keen disco dancer in his spare time - has requested that he be allowed to moonwalk from one screen to another "to slicken things up". ❋ Unknown (2009)

You could play it safe and ferry only the required workers back and forth as and when they're needed, but as the game progresses and distances involved grow, you'll not only need to slicken up your act, you'll want to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Five miles south of Monte Plata, I found a little exposure in the bed of a rain-water channel, where the rock was a black and green serpentinoid shale breaking into semi-lenticular masses by oblique ci-oss - cleavages and with all of the surfaces polished, resembling somewhat "slicken-sides." ❋ Unknown (1771)

At the foot of this same ridge the rock changes into a brownish-black serpentine, with oblique cuiwed cross-fractures showing sufaces like "slicken-sides." ❋ Unknown (1771)