Both Uses of
allay
in
Moby Dick
- But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger;†
Chpt 94-96allaying = reducing the intensity of or calming
Definition:
reduce the intensity of; or calm