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Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile knee. Thomson. Fearing dying pays death servile breath. Shak.…

or state of being servile; servileness. To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.

sory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence. You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude. Shak. A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goeSouth.…

To end; to terminate; to conclude. When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier.

e until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since. We since become the slaves to one man's lust. B. Jonson.

rope and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.

from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]

ians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]

Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n.

The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery. [U. S.]

A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.

Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless. Slave, souless villain, dog! Shak.

River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, was classed as one of the Southern States.

To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva. Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it In vain, against the people's favorite. Swift.

Spike lavender. See Lavender. Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles.

To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness. Milton.

ior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. South.

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. Tame slaves of the laborious plow. Roscommon.

One tanned by the sun. [R.] Hot summer's tanlings and The shrinking slaves of winter. Shak.

s, now only to women. This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh. Bale (1543). The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant. Macaulay.