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The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton.

One who slaughters.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

One employed in slaughtering. Shak.

Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.

The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.

Suicide. Shak.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take. Shak.

That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter. [Obs.]

wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

The wanton slaughter of game. Howitt.

The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.

The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. Hood.

Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Froude.

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

ration; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Prescott.

One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.