Allay

1. v. t. To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
2. v. t. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
3. v. t. To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.
4. v. t. To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
5. n. Alleviation; abatement; check.
6. n. Alloy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.