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A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.

Having no thralls.

Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish. Servile and thrall-like fear. Milton.

Thraldom.

To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]

To free from thralldom; to disenthrall. [Written also disinthral.]

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

To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall. The bars survive the captive they enthrall. Byron.

The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See Inthrallment.

To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave. She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind. Prior.

Act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage.

risoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement. A poor, miserable, captive thrall. Milton.

Cast down; humble; submissive. [Obs.] He down descended like a most demiss And abject thrall. Spenser.

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

crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. the endless routs of wretched thralls. Spenser. The ringleader and head of all this rout. Shak. Nor do I name of men the common rout. Milton.

she was somedeal deaf, and that was skathe. Chaucer. Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath. Spenser. Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. Shak.

the law. 1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. Shak. Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. Milton.

The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.] Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.