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ring this interval of calm and prosperity, he [Michael Angelo] terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art. J. S. Harford.

The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.] Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.

A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.

Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.

ything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton.

To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.] Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. Spenser.

es of cedar adorned with totem poles, and were expert stone carvers and copper workers. Slavery, the potlatch, and the use of immense labrets were characteristic. Many now work in the salmon industry.

To free from chains or slavery; to let loose. Prior.

Not free; held in bondage. There had always been a slave class, a class of the unfree, among the English as among all German peoples. J. R. Green

A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. "The vassals of his anger." Milton. Rear vassal, the vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal.

Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.

ies. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.

roused Horace into wrath. Dryden. That execrable sum of all villainies commonly called a slave trade. John Wesley.

ve of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to capture and enslave other ants.

A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect: one not having any negro blood (Ark.…

To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome. Shak.

Chaucer. Nor, on the other side, Will I be penuriously wise As to make money, that's my slave, my idol. Beau. & Fl. Lords do not care for me: I am too wise to die yet. Ford.

A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service. Our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak. My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matt. xi. 30.