Category:Slaver

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.

Slaver Slav"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slavering.] Etym: [cf. Icel. slafra. See slabber.]

1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.

2. To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.

Slaver Slav"er, v. t.

Defn: to smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with Drivel; to slabber.

Slaver Slav"er, n.

Defn: saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, it is the slaver Kills, and not the bite. Pope.