*laver*

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beslavered p. pr. & vb. n. Beslavering. ] To defile with slaver; to beslobber. [ 1913 Webster ]

A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Min.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Clover. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering. [ Scot. & North of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enslaves. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glafr flattery. ] 1. To prate; to jabber; to babble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To flatter; to wheedle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flatterer. [ Obs. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. lavour, F. lavoir, L. lavatorium a washing place. See Lavatory. ] 1. A vessel for washing; a large basin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Script. Hist.) (a) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet. (b) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which washes or cleanses. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lave to wash. ] One who laves; a washer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and Porphyra vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lark the bird. ] The lark. [ Old Eng. & Scot. ] [ Written also lavrock. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L. parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See Parable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Palavered p. pr. & vb. n. Palavering. ] To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver; to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

Palavering the little language for her benefit. C. Bronté [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who palavers; a flatterer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. pro- + slavery. ] Favoring slavery. -- n. Advocacy of slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. [ 1913 Webster ]

The slaver's hand was on the latch,
He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Slavered p. pr. & vb. n. Slavering. ] [ Cf. Icel. slafra. See Slabber. ] 1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be besmeared with saliva. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Saliva driveling from the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right,
It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A driveler; an idiot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Slaveries [ See 2d Slave. ] 1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [ Virginia ] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to. C. Lever. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, -- the slavery of caste. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The holding of slaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bondage; servitude; inthrallment; enslavement; captivity; bond service; vassalage. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The common sandpiper. [ 1913 Webster ]