| Pronunciation: | | 'sleyvur
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| Matching Terms: | | slave, slave ant, slave dealer, slave driver, slave market, slave owner, slave ship, slave state, slave trade, slave trader, slave traffic, slave tty, slave(a), slaveborn, slaveholder, slaveholding, slaveless, slavelike, slave-maker, slave-making ant, slaveocracy, slaverer, slavering, slavery, slavey
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- [n] someone who owns slaves
- [n] a person engaged in slave trade
- [v] let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"
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| | Synonyms: | | dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slave dealer, slave owner, slave trader, slaveholder, slobber |
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| | See Also: | | drool over, owner, possessor, salivate, slobber over, victimiser, victimizer, white slaver |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Slav"er\, n.
1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a
slave merchant, or slave trader.
The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in
haste to go. --Longfellow.
\Slav"er\, 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.
2. To be besmeared with saliva. --Shak.
\Slav"er\, v. t.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with
drivel; to slabber.
\Slav"er\, n.
Saliva driveling from the mouth.
Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is
the slaver kills, and not the bite. --Pope.
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