n. 1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. [ 1913 Webster ]

The slaver's hand was on the latch,
He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Slavered p. pr. & vb. n. Slavering. ] [ Cf. Icel. slafra. See Slabber. ] 1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be besmeared with saliva. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Saliva driveling from the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right,
It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A driveler; an idiot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Slaveries [ See 2d Slave. ] 1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [ Virginia ] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to. C. Lever. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, -- the slavery of caste. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The holding of slaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bondage; servitude; inthrallment; enslavement; captivity; bond service; vassalage. [ 1913 Webster ]