Slav 
voniaii ; a shortened form of the Slavic word, 
OBulg. Sloriaihiii (= KUHS. Nlnri/aiiiiifi, MGr. 
S/oLa/tyroi;, ML. ,sW</rc.v), a Slav, Slavonian, 
Slovenian; according to Miklosich the forma- 
tion of the word with the suffix -ii-nfi points to 
a local name as the origin: the ordinary deri- 
vation from OBulg. sloro, a word, or slara, glory, 
fame, is untenable. Hence Slavic, Slavonian, 
Slaronii; K/ni-riiitni, xlii <<-. l<ii-iii<: etc.] I. . 
One of a race of peoples widely spread in east- 
ern, southeastern, and central Europe; a Sla- 
vonian. The Slavs are divided into two sections the 
southeastern and the western. The former section com- 
prises the Russians, Bulgarians, Serbo-Croatians, and Slo- 
venes; the latter, the Poles, Bohemians, Moravians, Slo- 
vaks, Wends, and Kashoubes. 
II. a. Slavic; Slavonian. 
Slavdom (slav'dum), n. [< Slav + -dom.} 
Slavs collectively ; the group or race of peoples 
called Slavs: as, the civilization of Slavdom. 
Slave 1 , w. and a. See Slav. 
slave 2 (slav), n. and a. [Not found in ME.; < 
OF. esclare, esclau, F. eselare = Pr. esclau, m., 
esclava, f., = Sp. esclavo = Pg. escravo = It. 
scliiavo, stiavo (< ML. sclavus, Blame) = MD. 
slave, slaef (also slavven), D. slaaf = Sw. slaf 
= Dan. slave, < late MHG. sklave, slave, G. sklave, 
a slave, prop, one taken in war, orig. one of the 
Slavs or Slavonians taken in war, the word be- 
ing identical with MHG. G. Sklave, Slave (ML. 
Sclavus, Slavus, MGr. 2Wj8or, zeAa/3or), a Slav, 
Slavonian: see Slav. For similar notions, cf. 
AS. wealh, foreigner, Celt, slave: see Welsh.'] 
1. . 1 . A person who is the chattel or property 
of another and is wholly subject to his will; 
a bond-servant ; a serf. See slavery 2 . 
Let Egyptian slaves, 
Parthlans, and barefoot Hebrews brand my face. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, ii. 2. 
The inhabitants, both male and female, became the 
slaves of those who made them prisoners. 
. Irving, Granada, p. 36. 
2. One who has lost the power of resistance 
and is entirely under the influence or domina- 
tion of some habit or vice : as, a slave to ambi- 
tion ; a slave of drink. 
Give me that man 
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 
In my heart s core. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 77. 
3. One who labors like a slave ; a drudge : as, 
& slave to the desk. 4. An abject wretch ; a 
mean, servile person. 
An unmannerly slaw, that will thrust himself into se- 
crets! Shot., T. d. of V., ill 1.393. 
5. In entom., an insect held captive by or made 
to work for another, as in some colonies of ants. 
See slave-making Fugitive-slave laws. See fugi- 
tive Slave's diamond, a colorless variety of topaz found 
in Brazil. Called by the French goutte d'eau. (Stave is 
used in many self-explanatory compounds, as slave-breeder, 
slave-catcher, slave-owner, slave-market, slave-trader, etc.] 
= Syn. 1. Serf, Slave (see serf), bondman, thrall. See 
servitude. 
II. a. 1. Performed by slaves: as, slave 
labor. 2. Containing or holding slaves: as, 
a slave State. Slave State, in U. S. hist., a State in 
which domestic slavery prevailed : used of the period im- 
mediately preceding the civil war. These States were 
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina. South Caro- 
lina Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 
slave 2 (slav), v. ; pret. and pp. slaved, ppr. slav- 
ing. [= MD. D. slaven = MLG. slaven = Sw. 
slafva; from the noun'.] I. intrans. To work 
like a slave ; toil ; drudge : as, to slave night 
and day for a miserable living. 
Il.t trans. To enslave. 
But will you slave me to your tyranny ? 
Fletcher (and another), Love s Cure, iii. 3. 
Fortune, who slaves men, was my slave. 
Middleton and Dekker, Bowing Gill 
slave-baron (slav'bar'on), n. One who is in- 
fluential by reason of the ownership of many 
slaves. [An affected use.] 
slave-born (slav'bdrn), a. Born in slavery. 
slave-coffle (slav'kofl), n. A gang of slaves 
to be sold ; a coffle. 
slave-driver (slav'dri"ver), . An overseer of 
slaves at their work; hence, an exacting or 
cruel taskmaster. 
Slave-fork (slav'fork), . A forked branch of 
a tree, four or five feet long, used by slave- 
hunters in Africa to prevent the slaves they 
have captured or purchased from running 
away when on the march from the interior to 
the coast. The forked part is secured on the neck of 
the slave by lashings passing from the end of one prong to 
the end of the other, so that the heavy stick hangs down 
nearly to the ground, or (as is usually the case) is con- 
nected with the fork on the neck of another slave. See 
cut in next column. 
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slave-grown (slav'gron), a. Grown on land 
cultivated by slaves; produced by slave labor. 
Slave-grown will exchange for non-slave-groum com- 
modities in a less ratio than that of the quantity of labour 
required for their production. 
J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., IIL vi. f 3. 
slaveholder (slav'hol"der), . One who owns 
slaves. 
slaveholding (slav ' hoi " ding), a. Holding or 
possessing human beings as slaves: as, slave- 
holdinif States. 
Slave-hunter (slav'hun"tr), . One who hunts 
and captures persons, as in Africa and parts of 
Asia, for the purpose of selling them into sla- 
very. 
Especially characteristic of existence on the borderland 
between Islam and heathendom is the story of our hero's 
capture by a band of ruthless slavehunters. 
The Academy, No. 903, p. 112. 
slave-making (slav 'ma "king), a. Making 
slaves, as an ant. Such ants are Formica sanguinea 
and Polyergus rufescens, which attack colonies of Formica 
fusca, capture and carry off the larva, and rear them in 
servitude. 
Slaver 1 (slav'er), v. [< ME. slaveren, < Icel. 
slafra, slaver, = LG. slabbern, slaver, slabber: 
see slabber*.} I. intrans. To suffer the saliva 
to dribble from the mouth ; drivel ; slabber. 
His mouthe slavers. 
Hampole, Pricke of Conscience, 1. 784. 
Make provision for your slavering hounds. 
Massinger, City Madam, II. 2. 
The mad mastiff is in the meantime ranging the whole 
country over, slavering at the mouth. 
Qoldmnith, Citizen of the World, Ixix. 
II. trans. To besmear or defile with slaver or 
saliva; beslabber. 
Then, for a suit to drink in, so much, and, that being 
slavered, so much for another suit. 
B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. 
Like hogs, we sftzuerhis pearls, "turn his graces into 
wantonness," and turn again to rend in pieces thebringers. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 344. 
Twitch'd by the sleeve, he [the lawyer] mouths it more and 
more, 
Till with white froth his gown is slaver d o er. 
C. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, vii. 144. 
slaver 1 (slav'er), . [< ME. slaver, slavyr, < 
Icel. sla.fr, slaver: see slaver*, v. Cf. slabber*, 
.] Saliva driveling from the mouth ; drivel. 
Of all mad creatures, if the learn 'd are right, 
It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 106. 
slaver 2 (sla'ver), n. [< slave"* + -er*.} 1. A 
ship or vessel engaged in the slave-trade. 
Two mates of vessels engaged in the trade, and one per- 
son in equipping a vessel as a slaver, have been convicted 
and subjected to the penalty of fine and imprisonment. 
. 
Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 175. 
2. A person engaged in the slave-trade; a slave- 
hunter; a slave-dealer. 
The Slaver led her from the door, 
He led her by the hand, 
To he his slave and paramour 
In a strange and distant land ! 
Longfellow, Quadroon Girl. 
slaverer (slav'er-er), n. [< slaver* + -er*.} 
One who slavers ; a driveler ; hence, a servile, 
abject flatterer. 
slaveringly (slav'er-ing-li), adv. With slaver 
or drivel. 
slavery 1 (slav'er-i), a. [< slaver* + -y*. Cf. 
slabbery.} Slabbery ; wet with slaver. 
"Yes, drink, Peggy," said Hash, thrusting his slavery 
lips close to her ear. S. Judd, Margaret, I. 6. 
slavery 2 (sla'ver-i), n. [Early mod. E. slaverie 
(= D. slavernij = G. sklaverei = Sw. slafveri = 
Dan. slaveri) ; as slave' 2 + -ery.} 1. A state of 
servitude ; the condition of a slave ; bondage ; 
entire subjection to the will and commands of 
another; the obligation to labor for a master 
slavish 
without the cousenl of the servant; the estab- 
lishment of aright in law which makes one per- 
son :ilpsohite master of the body and the service 
of another. 
Taken by the insolent foe, 
And sold to slavery. S/ialc., Othello, i. 3. 138. 
A man that is in slavery may submit to the will of his 
master, because he cannot help it. 
Slillinyfeet, Sermons, III. in. 
2. The keeping or holding of slaves; the prac- 
tice of keeping human beings in a state of ser- 
vitude or bondage. Slavery seems to have existed 
everywhere from very early times. It is recognized in the 
Old Testament as a prevailing custom, and the Levitiual 
laws contain many regulations in regard to slaves and their 
rights and duties. Serfdom died out gradually in Eng- 
land In the latter part of the middle ages, and slavery was 
abolished throughout the British empire in 1833, after long 
agitation, the sum of twenty million pounds sterling being 
paid as compensation to the slave-owners. Negro slavery 
was introduced into the present territory of the I nited 
States in 1620, and became recognized as an institution. 
The Northern States gradually got rid of their slaves by 
emancipation or transportation in the latter part of the 
eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century. 
Slavery became a leading and agitating question from the 
time of the Missouri Compromise (1820), and the number 
of slave States increased to fifteen. (See slave State, under 
slaved a) President Lincoln, by his Emancipation Procla- 
mation of January 1st, 1863, declared free all slaves in that 
part of the Union designated as in rebellion ; and the thir- 
teenth amendment to the Constitution, 1866, abolished sla- 
very within the United States. Slavery has been abolished 
by various other countries in the nineteenth century, as 
by Brazil in 1888. 
In the progress of humane and Christian principles, and 
of correct views of human rights, slavery has come to be 
regarded as an unjust and cruel degradation of man made 
in the image of God. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 138. 
3. Servitude; the continuous and exhausting 
labor of a slave ; drudgery. 
The men are most imploied in hunting, the women in 
dauery. Capt, John Smith, Works, II. 239. 
4f. The act of enslaving. [Rare.] 
Though the pretence be only against faction and sedi- 
tion, the design is the slavery and oppression of the People. 
Staiingfleet, Sermons, I. vil. 
= Syn. 1. Bondage, etc. See servitude. 1 and 2. Vassal- 
age, thraldom, serfdom, peonage. 
Slave-ship (slav'ship), n. A ship employed in 
the slave-trade; a slaver. 
Slave-trade (slav'trad), n. The trade or busi- 
ness of procuring human beings by capture or 
purchase, transporting them to some distant 
country, and selling them as slaves; traffic in 
slaves. The slave-trade is now for the most part confined 
to Portuguese and Arabs in Africa. It was abolished in 
the British empire in 1807, and by Congress in the United 
States in 1807 (to take effect January 1st, 1808). 
That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a 
Slave Trade. J. Wesley, Journal, Feb. 12, 1792. 
That part of the report of the committee of detail which 
sanctioned the perpetual continuance of the slave-trade. 
Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 128. 
slave-trader (slav'tra"der), n. One who trades 
in slaves ; a slaver. 
slavey (sla'vi), n [< slave? + dim. -ey.} A do- 
mestic drudge ; a maid-servant. [Slang, Eng.] 
The slavey has Mr. Frederick's hot water, and a bottle 
of soda-water on the same tray. He has been instructed 
to bring soda whenever he hears the word slavey pro- 
nounced from above. Thackeray, Newcomes, xi. 
The first inquiry is for the missus or a daughter, and if 
they can't be got at they're on to the slaveys. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 472. 
Slavian (slav'i-an), a. and n. Same as Slavic. 
Milman, Latin Christianity, III. 125. 
Slavic (slav'ik), a. and n. [< Slav + -ic.} I. 
a. Of or pertaining to the Slavs, their country, 
language, literature, etc. ; Slavonian. 
II. . The language or group of languages 
spoken by the Slavs : it is one of the primary 
branches of the great Indo-European or Aryan 
family. Church Slavic, a name given to an ancient 
dialect of Bulgarian still used as the Biblical and liturgi- 
cal language of the Orthodox Eastern Church in Russia 
and other Slavic countries. Also called Old Bulgarian. 
See Bulgarian. 
slavinet, [< ME. slaveyn, slaveyne, slaryn, 
sclavin, sklavyn, sclauayn, sklavyne, sclavene, < 
AF. esclavine, <ML.sctoOTna, a long garment like 
that worn in Slavonic countries, < OBulg. Slovi- 
eninu = Russ. Slaryaninu, Slav, Slavonian: see 
Slav.} A pilgrim's cloak. 
Horn sprong ut of halle. 
And let his sclauin falle. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 36. 
Slavish (sla'vish), a. [= D. slaafsch = G. skla- 
visch = Sw. slafvisk = Dan. slavish, slavish; as 
slave? + -ish*.} 1. Of, pertaining to, character- 
istic of, or befitting slaves; servile; base: as, 
slavish fears ; a slavish dependence on the great. 
Nor did I use an engine to entrap 
His life, out of a slavish fear to combat 
Youth, strength, or cunning. 
Ford, Broken Heart, V. 2. 
