*slave*

v. t. To enslave. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enslaved p. pr. & vb. n. Enslaving. ] To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war,
Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves the will. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being enslaved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. To enslave again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enslave. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Slaved p. pr. & vb. n. Slaving. ] To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. See Slav. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See Slav. ] 1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Art thou our slave,
Our captive, at the public mill our drudge? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An abject person; a wretch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slave ant (Zool.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea. --
Slave catcher, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. --
Slave coast, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. --
Slave driver, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. --
Slave hunt. (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. Barth. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. --
Slave ship, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. --
Slave trade, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. --
Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See Serf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Born in slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds slaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Holding persons in slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Slavocracy. [ 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 ]

n. A maidservant. [ Colloq. & Jocose Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]