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To emit spittle.—Miso came with scowling eyes to deliver 
a slavering good-morrow to the two ladies. Sidney. 
Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it, 
In vain, against the people’s fav’rite ? Swift. 
To SLAVER, v. a. To smear with drivel. 
Twitch’d by the sleeve, he mouths it more and more, ' 
Till with white froth his gown is slaver'd o’er. Dryden. 
SLA'VERER, s. [slabbaerd, Dutch; from slavcri] One 
who cannot hold his spittle; a driveller; an idiot. 
SLA'VERINGLY, adv. With slaver, or drivel. Cot- 
grave. 
SLA'VERY, s. Servitude; the condition of a slave; the 
offices of a slave.—If my dissentings were out of errour, 
weakness, or obstinacy, yet no man can think it other than 
the badge of slavery, by savage rudeness and importunate 
obtrusions of violence to have the mist of his errour dispelled. 
King Charles. 
SLAUGHAM, a parish of England, in Sussex; 4 miles 
north west of Cuckfield. Population 759. 
SLAUGHTEN VALE, in England, near Aldborough, 
Suffolk. There is a considerable fishery here for herrings and 
sprats. 
SLA'UGHTER, s. [onjdaugfc, Saxon, from ylaegan, 
flegan, to strike or kill.] Massacre; destruction by the 
sword. 
Sinful Macduff, 
They were all struck for thee! 
Not for their own demerits, but for mine, 
Fell slaughter on their souls. Shakspeare. 
To SLA'UGHTER, v. a. To massacre; to slay; to kill 
with the sword. 
Your castle is surpriz’d, your wife and babes 
Savagely slaughter'd. Shakspeare. 
To kill beasts for the butcher. 
SLAUGHTER, Upper and Lower, adjoining parishes 
of England, in Gloucestershire : 3 miles south-west of Stow- 
on-the-VVold. 
SLAUGHTER CREEK, a bay of the United States, on 
the coast of Maryland, in the Chesapeak. 
SLAUGHTER RIVER, a river of North America, which 
runs into the Missouri; 121 miles below the Great Falls. 
SI.A'UGHTERER, s. One employed in killing. 
Thou dost then wrong me ; as the slaughterer doth. 
Which giveth many wounds, when one would kill. 
Shakspeare. 
SLAUGHTERFORD, a hamlet of England, in Wiltshire; 
5 miles west by north of Chippenham. 
SLAUGHTERHOUSE, s. House in which beasts are 
killed for the butcher. 
Away with me, all you whose souls abhor 
Th’ uncleanly savour of a slaughterhouse; 
For I am stifled with the smell of sin. Shakspeare. 
SLA'UGIITERMAN, s. One employed in killing. 
The mad mothers with their howls confus’d 
Do break the clouds; as did the wives of Jewry, 
At Herod’s bloody hunting slaughtermen. Shakspeare. 
SLAUGHTEROUS, adj. Destructive; murderous. 
I have supt full with horrours: 
Direness familiar to my slaughterous thoughts 
Cannot once start me. Shakspeare. 
SLAVIN, a lake of Prussia, in the New Mark of Branden- 
burgh, on the borders of Pomerania. 
SLA'VISH, adj. Servile; mean; base; dependant. 
You have among you many a purchas’d slave. 
Which, like your asses, and your dogs and mules, 
You use in abject and in slavish part, 
Because you bought them. Shakspeare. 
Slavish bards our mutual love rehearse 
In lying strains and ignominious verse. Prior. 
SLA'VISHLY, adv. Servilely; meanly.—The nature 
of base people is such, as either they obey slavishly, or 
command insolently. Ralegh. 
SLA'VISHNESS, s. Servility; meanness.—Detaining them 
in more than Egyptian slavishness. Fotherhy. 
SLAWATYCZE, a small town of Poland, on the Bog; 
105 miles east-south-east of Warsaw. 
SLAWKOW, a small town in the south-west of Poland ; 
26 miles west-north-west of Cracow. Population 1600. 
SLAWSTON, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; Si¬ 
miles north-east of Market Harborough. 
To SLAY, v. a. prefer, slew ; part. pass, slain, [slahan. 
Gothic ; slahon German ; jdaean, Saxon ; slaen, Dutch ; 
slaa, Dan. and Icel.] To kill; to butcher; to put to 
death. 
Her father’s brother . w 
Would be her lord; or shall I say her uncle ? 
Or he that slew her brothers and her uncle ? Shakspeare. 
SLAY. See Sley. 
SLA'YER, s. Killer; murderer; destroyer. 
Witness the guiltless blood poured oft on ground ; 
The crowned often slain, the slayer crown’d. Spenser. 
The slayer of himself yet saw I there; 
The gore congeal’d was clotted in his hair: 
With eyes half clos’d and gaping mouth he lay. 
And grim as when he breath’d his sullen soul away. 
Dry den. 
SLEAFORD, New, a market town of England, in the 
county of Lincoln, pleasantly situated on a small rivulet, 
called the Slea, which rises in the vicinity , and soon joins 
the Witham. It is a flourishing town, and is daily improv¬ 
ing both in its buildings and population. The church is a 
handsome and spacious Gothic structure. From a manu¬ 
script found in the parish chest, it appears to have been built 
in the year 1271, by Roger Blunt and Roger Brickham of 
Sleaford, merchants. It consists of a chancel, nave, transept, 
and two aisles, with a tower crowned by a spire, which rises 
to the height of 144 feet. In the chancel are several monu¬ 
ments to the family of Carr, by one of whom a free school 
was erected and liberally endowed m 1603, and also an hos¬ 
pital for 12 poor men. Opposite the west front of the church 
is the market place, which is rather small. There was for¬ 
merly a castle at Sleaford, built in the year 1112 by Alex¬ 
ander, bishop of Lincoln, probably on the site of a Roman 
citadel. The castle was standing in Leland’s time, and is 
described by him at length. It is now wholly levelled with 
the ground; many Roman coins have been found here, 
chiefly of the family of Constantine; and from this and 
other circumstances. Dr. Stukely conjectures that this was 
a Roman town. In 1811, Sleaford contained 385 houses, 
and 1781 inhabitants. Market on Monday, well supplied 
with provisions of all sorts; 16 miles south of Lincoln, and 
116 north of London. Lat. 53. 1. N. long. 0. 13. W. 
SLEAFORD, Old, a hamlet of England, in Lincoln¬ 
shire, within a mile of the town of New Sleaford. 
SLEAFORD BAY, a bay on the south coast of New 
Holland. 
SLEAT, a parish of Scotland, in Inverness-shire, in the 
island of Skye; 17 miles long, and from 1 to 3j broad. 
Population 1936. 
SLEAVE, s. [Icel. slefa, fila tenuia. Sercniusi] The 
ravelled knotty part of the silk. Heath. 
I on a fountain light. 
Whose brim with pinks was platted, 
The banks with daffadillies dight 
With grass like sleave was matted. Drayton. 
To SLEAVE, v. a. To separate into threads; to sleid. 
See To Sleid. —The more subtle, and more hard to sleave 
a-two, silken thread of self-seeking, is that dominion over 
consciences. Whitlock. 
SLE'AVED, adj. Raw; not spun; unwrought.—Eight 
wild men all apparelled in green moss made with sleaved 
silk. Holinshed. 
SLE'AZY, adj. [often written sleezy. And also sleasyi] 
Weak; 
