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Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State.

Favoring slavery. -- n.

To enslave again.

A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.

A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.

; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

ate of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. "Religious agitations." Prescott.

tion in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

ad of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

mong the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"ist, n.

Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope.

A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

arty in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

ompany; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! Beau. & Fl.