Slave : adj : held in servitude; "he was born of slave parents" [syn: slave(a)]
[ant: free]
(noun)
1: a person who is owned by someone
2: someone who works as hard as a slave [syn: striver, hard
worker]
3: someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; "a
slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was
his abject slave"
(verb)
1: work very hard, like a slave [syn: break one's back, buckle
down, knuckle down]
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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.]
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Slave : \Slave\, n.
See Slav.
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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.
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Slave : \Slave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slaved; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slaving.]
To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
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Slave : \Slave\, v. t.
To enslave. --Marston.
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SLAVE. A man who is by law deprived of his liberty for life, and becomes the
property of another.
2. ASlave : has no political rights, and generally has no civil rights.
He can enter into no contract unless specially authorized by law; what he
acquires generally, belongs to his master. The children of female slaves
follow the condition of their mothers, and are themselves slaves.
3. In Maryland, Missouri and Virginia slaves are declared by statute to
be personal estate, or treated as such. Anth. Shep. To. 428, 494; Misso.
Laws, 558. In Kentucky, the rule is different, and they are considered real
estate. 1 Kty. Rev. Laws, 566 1 Dana's R. 94.
4. In general a slave is considered a thing and not a person; but
sometimes he is considered as a person; as when he commits a crime; for
example, two white persons and a slave can commit a riot. 1 McCord, 534. See
Person.
5. A slave may acquire his freedom in various ways: 1. By manumission,
by deed or writing, which must be made according to the laws of the state
where the master then acts. 1 Penn. 10; 1 Rand. 15. The deed may be absolute
which gives immediate freedom to the slave, or conditional giving him
immediate freedom, and reserving a right of service for a time to come; 6
Rand. 652; or giving him his freedom as soon as a certain condition shall
have been fulfilled. 2 Root, 364; Coxe, 4. 2. By manumission by will. When
there is an express emancipation by will, the slave will be free, and the
testator's real estate shall be charged with the payment of his debts, if
there be not enough personal property without the sale of the slaves. 9 Pet.
461. See Harper, R. 20. The manumission by will may be implied, as, where
the master devises property real or personal to his slave. 2 Pet; 670; 5
Har. & J. 190. 3. By the removal of the slave with the consent of the
master, animo morandi, into one of the United States where slavery is
forbidden by law; 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N. J. 401; or when he sojourns there
longer than is allowed by the law of the state. 7 S. & R. 378; 1 Wash. C. C.
Rep. 499. Vide Stroud on Slavery; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; and as to the
rights of one who, being free, is held as a slave, 2 Gilman, 1; 3 Yeates,
240.
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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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