To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
To fawn.
To be drooled out of someone’s mouth.
A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.
Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.
A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
The continued fight between abolitionists and slavers in Missouri caused slave owners to refuge slaves to the Confederate interior. But some Union forces that made salients into rebel territory insisted that the slaves were “contraband” […]
From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Doublet of slabber.
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