slaver

Definitions

1. 1.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.
2. 2.To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
3. 3.To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.
4. 4.To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
5. 5.Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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