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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Slāt'er, n.p. 1241One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
  2. Slāt'ing, n.p. 1241The act of covering with slates. 2. The covering thus put on. 3. Slates taken collectively; as, the whole slating of a house; also, the material for slating.
  3. Slāt'ter, v. i.p. 1241To be careless of dress, and dirty. Ray. 2. To be careless, negligent, or awkward; to spill carelessly.
  4. Slăt'tern, n.p. 1241A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
  5. Slāt'tern, v. t.p. 1241To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; — with away. [Rare.] Chesterfield.
  6. Slăt'tern, a.p. 1241Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatternly. “The slattern air.” Gay.
  7. Slăt'tern-li-ness, n.p. 1241The state of being slatternly.
  8. Slăt'tern-ly, a.p. 1241Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.
  9. Slăt'tern-ly, adv.p. 1241Negligently; awkwardly.
  10. Slāt'ter-pouch, n.p. 1241A game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [Obs.] Gagnon.
  11. Slăt'ting, n.p. 1241Slats taken collectively.
  12. Slāt'y, a.p. 1241Resembling slate; having the nature or properties of slate; composed of thin, parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture. Slaty cleavage, cleavage, as of…
  13. Slaugh'ter, n.p. 1241The extensive and unnecessary destruction of human life; carnage. “On war and mutual slaughter bent.” Milton. 2. The act of killing, as a matter of business; as, the slaughter of oxen, or other…
  14. Slaugh'ter, v. t.p. 1241To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak. 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
  15. Slaugh'ter-er, n.p. 1241A person employed in slaughtering.
  16. Slaugh'ter-house, n.p. 1241A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
  17. Slaugh'ter-man or SLAUGH'TER-MEN, n.p. 1241One employed in killing. Shak.
  18. Slaugh'ter-ous, a.p. 1241Destructive; murderous. Shak.
  19. Slaugh'ter-ōus-ly, adv.p. 1241Destructively; murderously.
  20. Slāve, n.p. 1241A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.…
  21. Slāve, n.p. 1241One belonging to the Slavonic race.
  22. Slāve, v. t.p. 1241To enslave. [Rare.] Marston.
  23. Slāve, v. i.p. 1241To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave. 2. To get slaves; to deal in slaves.
  24. Slāve'-bōrn, a.p. 1241Born in slavery.
  25. Slāve'-cătch'er, n.p. 1241One who attempts to catch and bring a fugitive slave back to his master.
  26. Slāve'-cătch'ing, n.p. 1241The business of searching out and arresting fugitive slaves, to return them to their masters.
  27. Slāve'-cōast, n.p. 1241A part of the western coast of Africa, from which slaves are carried.
  28. Slāve'-cŏf/fle, n.p. 1241A band of slaves to be sold; a coffle.
  29. Slāve'-drīv'er, n.p. 1241One who superintends slaves when at their work; a subordinate overseer.
  30. Slā've-hōld'er, n.p. 1241One who holds slaves.
  31. Slāve'-hōld'ing, a.p. 1241Holding persons in slavery.
  32. Slāve'-hūnt, n.p. 1241A search after persons to make slaves of. Barth. 2. A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with blood-hounds.
  33. Slāve-ō'cra-cy, n.p. 1241See SLAVOCRACY.
  34. Slāv'er, n.p. 1241A vessel engaged in the slave-trade. 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.…
  35. Slāv'er, n.p. 1241Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.
  36. Slăv'er, v. i.p. 1241To suffer the spittle to issue from the mouth. 2. To be besmeared with saliva.
  37. Slāv'er, v. t.p. 1241To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel.
  38. Slāv'er-er, n.p. 1241A driveler; an idiot.
  39. Slāv'er-ing-ly, adv.p. 1241In a slavering manner; with slaver.
  40. Slāv'er-y, n.p. 1241The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish…
  41. slāve'-shĭp, n.p. 1241A ship employed in the slave-trade; a ship used for transporting slaves; a slaver.
  42. Slāve'-trāde, n.p. 1241The barbarous and wicked business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere.
  43. Slāve'-trād'er, n.p. 1241One who traffics in slaves.
  44. Slāv'ic, a.p. 1241Slavonic. [Written also Sclavic.]
  45. Slāv'ish, a.p. 1241Pertaining to slaves; such as becomes a slave; servile; as, a slavish dependence on the great. 2. Servile; laborious; consisting in drudgery; as, a slavish life.
  46. Slāv'ish-ly, adv.p. 1241In a slavish manner; servilely; meanly; basely. 2. In the manner of a slave or drudge.
  47. Slāv'ish-ness, n.p. 1241The state or quality of being slavish; servility; meanness.
  48. Slāv'ism, n.p. 1241The common feeling and interest of the Slavonic race.
  49. Slāv-ŏc'ra-cy, n.p. 1241The persons, or interest, representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery. [U. S.]
  50. Sla-vō'ni-an, n.p. 1241(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Slavonia. [Written also Sclavonian.]
  51. Sla-vō'ni-an or Sla-vōn'ie, a.p. 1241(Geog.) (a.) Of, or pertaining to, Slavonia, or to its inhabitants. (b.) Of, or pertaining to, the Sclavi, a people who anciently inhabited the country between the Rivers Save and Drave; — applied…
  52. Slaw, n.p. 1241Sliced cabbage, served cooked, or uncooked, as a salad.
  53. Slāy, v. t.p. 1241To put to death by a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy. I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. Shak. Syn.—To kill; murder; assassinate; slaughter; butcher.
  54. Slāy'er, n.p. 1241One who slays; a killer; a murderer; an assassin; a destroyer of life.
  55. Slēave, n.p. 1241The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread; silk or thread untwisted. Sleave silk, untwisted or raw silk in the state in which it is used for weaving.
  56. Slēave, v. t.p. 1241To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley;—a term used by weavers.
  57. Slēaved, a.p. 1241Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
  58. Slēa'zi-ness, n.p. 1241The state or quality of being sleazy.
  59. Slēa'zy, a.p. 1241Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
  60. Slēd, n.p. 1241A carriage, or vehicle, moved on runners, used for conveying heavy loads over the snow;—in England, at the present day, called sledge. 2. A light seat mounted on runners, used for sliding on snow and…