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Slaver
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
2. To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.