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.
3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
4. An abject person; a wretch. Shak.
Slave ant (Zoöl.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially
Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea. — Slave
catcher, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. — Slave coast,
part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. — Slave
driver, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. — Slave
hunt. (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. Barth. (b) A search after fugitive
slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. — Slave ship, a vessel employed in the slave trade or
used for transporting slaves; a slaver. — Slave trade, the business of dealing in slaves, especially
of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. — Slave trader, one who
traffics in slaves.
Syn. — Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See Serf.
Slave
(Slave), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slaved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaving.] To drudge; to toil; to labor as a
slave.
Slave
(Slave), v. t. To enslave. Marston.
