Slāv'er1, n.
n. 1. A vessel engaged in the slave-trade.
Sense 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.
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n. 1. A vessel engaged in the slave-trade.
Sense 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.
n. [See SLABBER.] Saliva driveling from the mouth.
Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.
[imp. & p. p. SLAVERED; p. pr. & vb. n. SLAVERING.] 1. To suffer the spittle to issue from the mouth. 2. To be besmeared with saliva.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel.