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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slav \Slav\, n.;pl. {Slavs}. [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear. Cf {Loud}.] (Ethnol.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc [Written also {Slave}, and {Sclav}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slave \Slave\, n. See {Slav}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slave \Slave\, n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf Dan. slave, sclave, Sw slaf, all fr G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See {Slav}.] 1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge? --Milton. 2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. 3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave. 4. An abject person; a wretch. --Shak. {Slave ant} (Zo["o]l.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially {Formica fusca} of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by {Formica sanguinea}. {Slave catcher}, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. {Slave coast}, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. {Slave driver}, one who superintends slaves at their work hence figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. {Slave hunt}. a A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. --Barth. b A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. {Slave ship}, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. {Slave trade}, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. {Slave trader}, one who traffics in slaves. Syn: Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See {Serf}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slave \Slave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slaved}; p. pr & vb n. {Slaving}.] To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Slave \Slave\, v. t. To enslave. --Marston. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: slave adj 1: held in servitude; "he was born of slave parents" [syn: {slave(a)}] [ant: {free}] 2: concerned with slaves; "slave quarters"; slave trader"; "slave market" [syn: {slave(a)}] n 1: a person who is owned by someone 2: someone who works as hard as a slave [syn: {striver}, {hard worker}] v : work very hard, like a slave [syn: {break one's back}, {buckle down}, {knuckle down}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Slave Jer. 2:14 (A.V.), but not there found in the original. In Rev. 18:13 the word slaves" is the rendering of a Greek word meaning "bodies." The Hebrew and Greek words for slave are usually rendered simply "servant," "bondman," or "bondservant." Slavery as it existed under the Mosaic law has no modern parallel. That law did not originate but only regulated the already existing custom of slavery (Ex. 21:20, 21, 26, 27; Lev. 25:44-46; Josh. 9:6-27). The gospel in its spirit and genius is hostile to slavery in every form which under its influence is gradually disappearing from among men.
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