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A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property. Burrill.

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

nder Angora. -- Persian columns (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represents a Persian slave; -- called also Persians. See Atlantes. -- Persian drill (Mech.), a drill which is turned by pushing a nut back and forth along a spirally grooved drill holder. -- Persian fire (Med.), malignant pustule. -- Persian powder…

Attached to land or farms; as, predial slaves.

fective force in any undertaking or work; as, Clarkson was the prime mover in English antislavery agitation. -- Prime number (Arith.), a number which is exactly divisible by no number except itself or unity, as 5, 7, 11. -- Prime vertical (Astron.), the vertical circle which passes through the east and west points of…

Any food or victuals. Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. Prior.

nce, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. " To every puff of wind a slave." Flatman.

To set down, as in writing. [Obs.] "He's quoted for a most perfidious slave." Shak.

egret, or there to fear. Pope. In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader. Macaulay. Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken. Macaulay.

A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.

y a combination of voters from other parties for the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president.

omanic languages descended from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek.

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.

as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

Same as Slav.

Same as Slavic.

Same as Slavism.

Same as Slavonian.

Same as Slavonic.