SLAVE
\slˈe͡ɪv], \slˈeɪv], \s_l_ˈeɪ_v]\
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sl[=a]v, n. a captive in servitude: any one in bondage: a serf: one who labours like a slave: a drudge: one wholly under the will of another: one who has lost all power of resistance.--v.i. to work like a slave: to drudge.--adj. SLAVE'-BORN, born in slavery.--ns. SLAVE'-DR[=I]'VER, one who superintends slaves at their work; SLAVE'-FORK, a long and heavy branch into the forked end of which a slave's neck is fixed to prevent his escaping from the slave-trader's gang.--adj. SLAVE'-GROWN, grown on land worked by slaves.--ns. SLAVE'-HOLD'ER, an owner of slaves; SLAVE'-HOLD'ING; SLAVE'-HUNT, a hunt after runaway slaves; SL[=A]'VER, a ship employed in the slave-trade; SL[=A]'VERY, the state of being a slave: serfdom: the state of being entirely under the will of another: bondage: drudgery; SLAVE'-SHIP, a ship used for transporting slaves.--n.pl. SLAVE'-STATES, those states of the American Union which maintained domestic slavery before the Civil War--Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee.--ns. SLAVE'-TRADE, the trade of buying and selling slaves; SLAVE'-TR[=A]'DER, a trader in slaves; SL[=A]'VEY (slang), a domestic drudge, a maid-servant.--adj. SL[=A]'VISH, of or belonging to slaves: becoming slaves: servile: mean: base: laborious.--adv. SL[=A]'VISHLY.--ns. SL[=A]'VISHNESS; SL[=A]VOC'RACY, slave-owners collectively, or their interests, &c.; SL[=A]'VOCRAT, a member of the slavocracy. [O. Fr. esclave--Mid. High Ger. slave (Ger. sclave), from Slav, above.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Person who is the legal property of another or others and is bound to absolute obedience, human chattel; helpless victim to or of some dominating influence (is a s. to drink, the s. of his wife\'s caprices, &c.; the ss. of fashion); drudge, person of no leisure; mean contemptible person; s.-born, in slavery, of s. parents; s.-driver, overseer of ss. at work, (transf.) hard taskmaster; s.-grown, (of commodities) produced by s.-labour; s.-holder, owner of ss.; s.-hunter, person who hunts esp. negroes to sell them as ss.; s.-ship, employed in s.-trade; s. States, southern States of N. America in which slavery prevailed before civil war; s.-trade, procuring, transporting, & selling as ss., of human beings, esp. African negroes; so s.-trader. (Vb) work like s., drudge. [French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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