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To lave or bathe over.

a public conference and deliberation; a debate. This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. Carlyle.

One who palavers; a flatterer.

A sword bearer. [Obs.]

Favoring slavery. -- n.

To enslave again.

Same as Slav.

See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.

action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge Milton.

Born in slavery.

One who holds slaves.

Holding persons in slavery.

See Slavocracy.

A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.

A driveler; an idiot.

Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.

The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It mi…

A maidservant. [Colloq. & Jocose Eng.]

The common sandpiper.

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