slavish 
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Although within a palace thou wast bred, 
Yet dost thou carry but a slavish heart. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 263. 
2. Lacking originality or due independence. 
sled 
Slavophil (slav'o-fil), n. [< Slav + Gr. $i7.eiv. The bank, with daffodilies dight, 
love. J One who favors or admires the Slavonic with K rass " ke 8 ' eOK! was matted, 
race, and endeavors to promote the interests Drayton, Quest of Cynthia. 
of the Slavonic peoples : frequently used at- sleave (slev), v. t. ; pret. and pp. sleaved, ppr. 
.^ff5fl^ r .^ nci !?l Bh ?Pf^ f/A lelds '. with . a J viewt ? tributively. sleavinff.^ [Also sleeve; < sleave, n.] To sepa- 
There were the so-caUed Slavophils, a small band of pa rate or divide, as a collection of threads, strands, 
their slavish reproduction, which is now so usual, does not 
seem to have been so prevalent before about the year 1 840. 
Trans. Hist. Sac. of Lancashire mid Cheshire, N. 8., V. 59. 
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trlotlc . highly-educated Muscovites, who were strongly or fibers Sleaved Bilk silk not spun or twisted but 
8 Lilffithnt f disposed to admire everything specifically Russian, and drawn out into a skein or bunch of loose threads 
<s. Jjiw tnat ot a slave, servile, consisting ot who habitually refused to bow the knee to the wisdom of sleave-silk (slev'silk) FTI ,,h 
drudgery and labonous toil : as, slavish service. Western Europe. D. M. Wallace, Russia, p 139 rJn^i?|i ' "*P" "Ik, sucn a*. 
Many a purchased slave, 
Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, 
You use in abject and in slavish parts. 
It remains to be seen whether the Slavophils will not 
obtain their own way. Edinburgh Rev., CXLV. 100. 
Thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk! 
'"wfE"w f , Slavophilism (slav'o-fil-izm), n. [< Slanml, il , SAa*., T. and C.,v. 1.36. 
4t Enslaved oppressed + -''*] Slavophil sentiments and aims. Bleaaness (sla'- or sle'zi-nes), n. Sleazy, thin, 
They . . -'* wgj-Y-ft, JiSS^fffSfXaaesafA JSS&SSKSSyL^i.^^i. 
genuine SlavophUimi. D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 418. *'-#/ supposed to be < G. schleissig, schlis- 
g -~ 3 - Slavophobist(slav'o-f6-bist), . [< Slav + Gr. si <>> worn out ' threadbare r easily split, < sehleis- 
slavishly (sla'vish-li), ade. In a slavish or ser- Wv, fear, + -st.]' One who is not favorable * e "> 8 P ht ' ?. ut : 8ee '* litl < slice - It is not probable, 
vile manner; as a slave: as if deprived of the to the Slavs, or who fears their influence and "wever, that a 0.. adj. would thus come into 
right or power of independent action or thought Pwer. popular K. use. Kennett (in Halliwell) con- 
Here we have an arcade of flve, the columns of which slaw't, ., n., and adi: An obsolete (Scotch) De ,, S ,f ^ X/ 1 , . SUenui (cf. silesia, a stuff so 
are crowned with capitals, Composite in their general form of stoic 1 . called).] Or thin or flimsy substance; com- 
- 1 ' L * -"- * " .... . . . ... T^rtQorl r.f T\r*r*- /^ lifvlit vnn 4- **?., 1 . :j~c_j .__*;!_ 
menfaT 8 ' Ob8e<luiou8 ' fawnln *' 
pp] . 
character, peculiarities" influence, interests, 8 lS *,Ti 
and aspirations. 
Slay 1 (sla), r. t. ; pret. slew, pp. 
gSM&3?$la c h o e m n est e t&f E fwithJut^f ?' *"", ***,' "T' '*^> ^" '* >'- s,ipped intoThVp-,eee laMiTiWho^t 
fluence of Slavism. Pop. Sci. Mo.,\X. 221. (without inf. ending, slee, sle, slaa, slo, pres. thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft will 
Slavite (sla'vlt), H. [< slave" + -ite.] Aslave- ,\ lst , Pew-*taye, etc., pret. stoto, *to, slough, not testify In the web. 
holder, or one who favors slavery ; in U. S hist * "''' rf 7*' sloi ' h ,' sl l 1 ' sto *' P 1 ' * towew ' sloughen, . finer, Complete Prose Works, II. 367. 
a member of the pro-slavery party. [Rare]' , ZC "' ",' ^loiighe eic., pp. slain, slayn, sleek 1 (slek), ,-. t. An obsolete or dialectal form 
3wS&3a^ 
pret. *to/i, */og-, pi. slogan, pp. s/ej/ew, stej/ew, ' 
geslegen, gesleegen), strike, smite, kill, = OS. 
slahan, slaan = OFries. sla = D. slaan = MLG. 
Bowell, Letters, 1. 1. 1. 
A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, 
the mechanism that makes it is Infinitely cunninger, and 
you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours 
of Heaven is a reverend slavite. 
W. Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator (1831), I. 115 
slavocracy (sla-vok'ra-si), H . [Also slareocracy ; 
irreg. < slave* '+ -o-cracy as in democracy, etc.] *'<""> L ^- ' = OHG. slahan, MHG. slaheii, 
Slave-owners collectively, or their interests, in- * schlagen = Icel. W == Sw. */<} = Dan. slaae = 
sleck-trought, . [< sleek, var. of' 
trough.'] The trough in which a blacksmith 
slakes or cools his irons. 
fluence, and power, especially as exercised in 
the maintenance of slavery. 
Each strives for preeminence in representing its candi- 
date as the special friend of the slaveocracy. 
New York Tribune, Nov. 4, 1858. 
Ever since he [Calhoun] had abjured his early national 
and latitudinarian bias, and become an " honest milliner " 
in the service of the slavocracy, he had unfitted himself 
to be the leader of a great national party. 
H. von Hoist, John C. Calhoun (trans.), p. 216. 
slavocrat (sla'vo-krat), it. [Irreg. < slave* + 
-o-crat as in democrat, etc.] A member of the 
slavocracy. 
The slavocrats, Calhoun not excepted, . . . were not 
such doctrinaires as to risk their bones in charging wind- 
mills. H. von Hoist, John C. Calhoun (trans.), p. 308. 
Slavonian (sla-vo'ui-an), . and . [Also 
Sclavonian ; < ML. Slaronia, Sclavonia, the coun- 
. 
Goth, slahan, strike, smite ; not found outside of 
He a Black-smith's son appointed 
Head in his place : one who anointed 
Had never been, unless his Dad 
Had in the sleet-trough wash'd the lad 
' 
Thai slew the wethir that thai bar ; 
And slew fyr for to rost their mete. 
'l*t-j .-wr f M " , ^f f Iff (f , IO,LVL .^It I III , J, 
slede, also contr. slee = MLG. slede, sledde, LG. 
slede, slee = OHG. slito, slita, MHG. slite, slitte, 
Barbour, vli. 153. (Jamieson.) G. schlitten (> It. slitta) = Icel. sledhi = Sw. 
2. To strike so as to kill; put to death violent- slade = Norw. slede, slee = Dan. slsede, a sled; 
ly, by means of a weapon or otherwise ; kill. < AS. slidan, etc., slide : see slide. Cf. Ir. Gael. 
slaod, a sledge, < slaod, slide; Lett, slidas, a 
skate. Hence ult. sledge? and sleigh*.] 1. A 
drag or dray without wheels, but mounted on 
runners, for the conveyance of loads over frozen 
snow or ice, or over mud or the bare ground, as 
Thi fadir hath slayn a fat calf. Wydif, Luke XT. 27. 
They brennen, sleen, and bringe hem to meschance. 
Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 964. 
Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself? 
And slay thy lady too that lives In thee ? 
Shale., R. and J., 111. 3. 116. 
try of the^Slavsj^Wends, < Sl_avm~Sclqv,7s, ^ destro y: P ut an end *! quench; spoil; sledge. 
in transporting logs and heavy stones. Also 
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Slav: see Slav. Ct. Slovenian.] I, a. I. Of or 
pertaining to the Slavs, their language, litera- 
ture, history, etc.; Slavic. 2. Of or pertain- 
ing to Slavonia. - Slavonian grebe. See grebe. 
II. n. 1. A Slav person or language. 2. 
An inhabitant of Slavonia, a district east of 
Croatia, with which it forms a crownland in the 
Hungarian or Transleithan division of the Aus- 
trian empire. 
Swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde 
That slow the fyr and made him to escape. 
Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 742. 
The rootes eke of rede and risshe thay ete ; 
When winter sleeth thaire fedyng, yeve hem meete. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 99. 
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; 
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. 
Shak., R. and J., ii. 3. 26. 
Syn. 2. Murder, etc. See MSI. 
Upon an ivory sled 
Thou shalt be drawn amidst the frozen pools. 
Marlowe, Tamburlalne, I., I. 2. 98. 
A dray or sledde which goeth without wheeles, traha. 
Baret. 
They bringe water in ... greate tubbes or hogsheads 
on sleddes. H. Best, Fanning Book (1641), p. 107. 
2. A pair of runners connected by a frame- 
work, used (sometimes with another pair) to 
Slavonianize (sla-vo'ni-an-Iz), r. t. ; pret. and slay 2 (sla), . [Also sley, early mod. E. also 
pp. Slavonianized, ppr. Slavonianizing. [< Sla- sleie; < ME. slay, slat, < AS. slie, contr. of "slahe, 
ronian + -ize.~] To render Slavonian in char- in an early form /a/iae, a weavers' reed (= Icel. 
acter or sentiment; Slavonicize; Slavonize. sla = Sw. sld = Dan. slaa, a bar, bolt, cross- 
They [the Bulgarians] are not of pure Slavic descent but beam): so called from striking the web to- 
gether, < sledn ("sleahan, "slahan), strike: see 
slay*."] The reed of a weavers' loom. 
To weue in the stoule sume were full preste 
With slaiis, with tauellis, with hedellis well drest. 
Skelton, Oarlande of Laurell, 1. 791. 
, 
are a Slavonianized race. Science, VI. 803. 
The Russian, who has been described as a Slavonianized 
Finn with a dash of Mongol blood. Science, VI. 304. 
Slavonic (sla-von'ik), . and . [Also Scla- 
vonic; < NL. Slaronicus, Sclavonicus, < ML. Sla- 
vonia, Sclavonia, Slavonia: see Slavonian.'] I. slayer (sla'er), . [< ME. slaer, sleer, sleere 
a. Of or pertaining to the Slavs or Slavonians ; (= MLG. sieger = G. schlager, a beater, fighter, 
Slavic. mallet), a slayer; < slay* + -er*.~] One who 
II. H. The language of the Slavs: same as slays; a killer; a murderer; an assassin; ade- A A bob-sied.comjpo 
/..,; ot, .,>,,,. *!!* *. which is attached t 
Slavic. 
Sleds. 
osed of two short sleds a, a 
stroyer of life. 
connected by a peich 
Slavonicize (sla-von'i-s!z), V. t. ; pret. and pp. "' tne red toj/r thinks he slays. Emerson, Brahma. 
Slavonicized, ppr. Slavonitizing. [< Slavonic + slazy (sla'zi), a. A dialectal form of sleazy, 
-ize.] To render Slavonic in c' 
ment, language, etc. 
character, senti- sld. A contraction (a) of sold; (b) of sailed. 
slet. An old spelling of slay*, sly. 
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which is attached to the sled a' by a king-bolt c. on which the sled 
turns freely, thereby enabling it to be turned around in a space lit- 
tle wider than its own length : the box or body of the sled, when one 
is used, is supported on the bolsters d, ct' . B, B', hand-sleds. 
carry loads or support the body of a vehicle, or, 
when of lighter build and supporting a light 
The Slavonic or Slavonicized population. sleave (slev), n. [Also sleeve; cf. Sw. slejf, a platform or seat, in the sport *of coasting and 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 194. knot of ribbon, = Dan. slojfe, a bow-knot; G. for drawing light loads by hand. 
. . 
Slavonize (slav'o-mz), . t. ; pret. and pp. Slar- 
onized, ppr. Slavoniziitg. [< Slavonic) + -ire.] 
To render Slavonian in character, sentiment, slip: see slip*.] Anything matted or raveled; 
schleife, a loop, knot, springe, noose, = LG. Chilion made her a present of a beautiful blue-painted 
slope, slepe, a noose, slip-knot ; from the root of *<* to coast with when the snows uame 
language, etc. 
This element is preponderant in the Timok vallev 
while in Istria it is represented by the Cici, at present 
largely Slawmized. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 268. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 10. 
hence, unspun silk; the knotted and entangled 3. A vehicle moving on runners, drawn by 
part of silk or thread. 
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. 
Shak., Macbeth, ii. 2. 37. 
horses, dogs, or reindeer ; a sleigh. 
In his lefte hande he holdeth a collar or rayne wherwith 
he moderateth the course of the hartes, and in the ryght 
