Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Slave"
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.
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) 1.7 (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}]
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