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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.

te 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.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

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

ion 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.

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

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

A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

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.

ong 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.]

rty 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.

To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold.

The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.