Slaugh"ter*er (?), n. One who slaughters.
Slaugh"ter*house` (?), n. A house where beasts are butchered for the
market.
Slaugh"ter*man (?), n.; pl. Slaughtermen (&?;). One employed in
slaughtering. Shak.
Slaugh"ter*ous (?), a. Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. --
Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
Slav (?), n.;pl. Slavs (#). [A word originally meaning, intelligible,
and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke
languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word,
slava fame, Skr. çru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.) One of a race of
people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including
the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles,
Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]
Slave (?), n. See Slav.
Slave (?), n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf,
all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the
Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were
frequently made slaves by the Germans. See Slav.] 1. A person who is
held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of
another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of
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.
2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself
to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong
drink, to ambition.