Associations to the word «Becalm»
Wiktionary
BECALM, verb. (transitive) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.
BECALM, verb. (transitive) (nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
Dictionary definition
BECALM, verb. Make steady; "steady yourself".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.