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noun

Slaver n.

A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.

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."

Slaver n. Saliva driveling from the mouth. "Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite."

verb

Slaver v. t. To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

Slabber v. i. (past & past part. slabbered; pres. part. slabbering) (Written also slaver, and slobber) To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.

Slaver v. i. (past & past part. slavered; pres. part. slavering)

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

To be besmeared with saliva.

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"Slaver" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the dog had slunk into an angle of the wall, and was pressing himself close against it, as if literally striving to force his way into it. I approached the animal and spoke to it; the poor brute was evidently beside itself with terror. It showed all its teeth, the slaver dropping from its jaws, and would certainly have bitten me if I had touched it. It did not seem to recognize me. Whoever has seen at the Zoological Gardens a rabbit fascinated by a serpent, cowering in a corner, may form some idea of the anguish which ...

— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

... in regions haunted Of twilight, where the world is glacier planted, And pale as Loki in his cavern when The serpent's slaver burns him to the bones, I saw the phantasms of gigantic men, The prototypes of vastness, quarrying stones; Great blocks of winter, glittering with the morn's And evening's colors,—wild prismatic tones Of boreal beauty.—Like ...

— Myth and Romance - Being a Book of Verses • Madison Cawein

... Sappho— A. Hold! for God's sake—you'll offend, No names!—be calm!—learn prudence of a friend! I too could write, and I am twice as tall; But foes like these— P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes: One from all ...

— Essay on Man - Moral Essays and Satires • Alexander Pope

... unheard as far as I was concerned. I seemed to have the very smell of the smoke of burning Weymouth in my nostrils, and the wild rowing song came back to me. I minded the man well, and it went to my heart to see the free Danish warrior tied here at the mercy of this evil-eyed slaver, for I knew that he was ...

— A King's Comrade - A Story of Old Hereford • Charles Whistler

... stood in front of them. His face had a look of foolish ecstasy. He stared at Mr. Parsons, and as he stared he panted. There was a red smear on his white breast; his open jaws still dripped a pink slaver. It sprayed the ground in front of them, jerked out ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

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