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of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.

To keep in slavery; to enslave. And which more blest who chained his country, say Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day Pope.

confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.

A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. [Obs.] The slavering cudden, propped upon his staff. Dryden.

an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak.

e; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall. [Written also disenthral.] Milton.

A releasing from thralldom or slavery; disenthrallment. [Written also disinthralment.]

er, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

nt; restraint of liberty. The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force. Burke.

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition;…

To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon.

Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak.

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.