To calm or placate someone or some situation.
To smooth over; render less obnoxious.
To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
To keep in good humour; wheedle; cajole; flatter.
To ease or relieve pain or suffering.
To temporise by assent, concession, flattery, or cajolery.
To bring comfort or relief.
To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften.
To moderate or control.
To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
A tendency to become angry.
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
State of mind; mood.
Anger; a fit of anger.