(n.) A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
(n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
(v. i.) To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
(v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
(v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
(n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although diplomacy would probably preclude them from saying otherwise, after last night's events at Camp Nou, it's probably safe to say that both Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will be slavering at the prospect of facing suspension-ravaged Chelsea in the final of this year's Champions League .
(2) Twelve Years a Slave stars McQueen's fellow Briton Chiwetel Ejiofor as a real historical figure named Solomon Northup whose 1853 autobiography details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
(3) As if that weren't enough, Daenerys Targaryen, accompanied by her menacing trio of dragons and army of Unsullied, is poised to liberate Meereen, the largest city in Slaver's Bay, which could ultimately provide her with enough ships to sail to Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne."
(4) Legalisation keeps pimps, brothel keepers, and sex-slavers in freedom and riches.
(5) days before the 2018 World Cup vote, the English bid is starting to feel like complicity in the supreme authority's slavering pursuit of the game's astronomical wealth, both over and underneath the counter.
(6) Then Mr Huhne actually turned on the Tories: "If you keep beating the anti-European drum, if you slaver over tax cuts for the rich, you will … wreck the nation's economy and common purpose!"
(7) We are supposed to slaver enviously at this ostentation; if we don’t, we condemn ourselves as losers.
(8) She first developed vesicles and ulcerations in oral and laryngeal mucous membranes, showing a hoarse voice and fits of coughing with excessive slavering.
(9) Was Ramsay Snow’s concubine running away from a pack of slavering dogs or Iwan’s album listening party?
(10) To contemporary readers, Crusoe's attitude to non‑whites is unpalatable; he sells a fellow shipwreck survivor to slavers, and his relationship with Friday seesaws queasily between friendship and servitude.
(11) Sly Bailey, as the chief executive of a company with voracious institutional shareholders slavering in the background, doesn't have that sort of clout.
(12) Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson), 12 Years a Slave is a true horror story that sees an affluent black American, born free in New York state, kidnapped by slavers in 1841; he wakes up in bondage before being transported to the south where he's passed from master to master.
(13) When milk, slaver, nasal secretion, mastitis secretion and blood were offered to flies as feeding substrates only the last three produced significant increases in feeding duration in comparison to controls offered distilled water.
(14) £28m radar deal 'stank' Tanzania, on Africa's east coast, is one of the poorest states in the world, formerly controlled in turn by Arab slavers, German colonists and the British.
(15) McQueen's screenplay is based on Northup's 1853 autobiography, which details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
(16) It is often a beautiful and uplifting film but does not flinch from showing the breathtaking cruelty of the slavers.
(17) Morocco This season Morocco has formed the backdrop to Dany's ransacking of Slaver's Bay, with scenes shot in Essaouira and Aït Benhaddou near Ouarzazate.
(18) "To complement this, Britain has also been a nation of emigration, sending 'settlers' to countries such as North America, Australasia and Southern Africa, usually displacing their original inhabitants; traders, investors and slavers all over the world; and conquerors and rulers to India, Africa and elsewhere.
(19) Where they slavered with voracious self-interest, the NHS symbolised courageous self-sacrifice for the good of all.
(20) Speaking to US television talk-show host and journalist Charlie Rose, Lucas quipped that he had sold his “kids … to the white slavers that take these things”.
Sliver
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
(n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
(n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
(n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
(2) The slivers of muscle grow between pieces of Velcro and flex and contract as they develop.
(3) Given their ages (Pacquiao is 36), it was not a total surprise that neither of them could sustain the quality of the exchanges or the vigour of their past over the course of 12 rounds, although there were slivers of magic from both.
(4) Slivers of articular cartilage were stored in Ham's medium, plasma, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and dimethyl sulphoxide at 0, -20, 4, and 38C.
(5) But in just a tiny sliver of its history - the last few thousand years - the patterns of vegetation altered much faster than before.
(6) All the foreign bodies evaluated (lead and plastic pellets, pieces of wire, nails, needles, small fragments of rock and glass, wooden slivers, surgical sponges and surgical threads) were detectable with ultrasound.
(7) • House Republicans passed or planned to pass at least 11 mini spending bills to fund slivers of government.
(8) But visible change has accelerated rapidly in the past few thousand years – a tiny sliver of the Earth’s history.
(9) As I prepared to make tracks, Charlie Meckna pointed up at some slivers of grey cloud that hung in the vast powder-blue sky.
(10) There was little cinching of the waist, and almost no flashing of leg; sex appeal came through the element of surprise, as the designer put it backstage, with unexpected slivers of skin shown at the back of a dress.
(11) For people with busy lives Slivers of Time is a website that allows you to show volunteer-seeking organisations the precise hours you are free and would like to help organisations in your local area.
(12) Huhhhhhhhh,” goes another, when the drowsy, pitched-down vocal of DOEP drops in, a sliver of R&B squashed under a hobnailed boot.
(13) "We believe scale will be an increasing source of competitive advantage in both the confectionery category and the global food business as a whole," said Rosenfeld, who pointed out that the tie-up will allow Kraft to become the world's leading confectionery company with a market share of 14.8%, a sliver higher than its US rival Mars, which recently bought Wrigley's chewing gum to take its share to 14.6%.
(14) Far from being a straight-up sci-fi, it adds a dash of Scandi-noir, a pinch of thriller and the occasional sliver of black humour into the mix.
(15) And, whatever happens to nature, it is our own highly complex interconnected society, built on a lucky period of stable climate during a tiny sliver of planetary time, that looks most at risk.
(16) 12 cords were cut with scissors, and 4 with a sharpened sliver of reed.
(17) An earlier version said that Holyrood controls only a small slither, rather than sliver, of its own spending.
(18) With his teeth caked in slivers of cola nuts, he said he had tried to board earlier convoys but there had not been enough space.
(19) When an attempt was made to remove the screw 12 weeks after its insertion, the screw broke at its neck releasing several small slivers of metal into the joint.
(20) They can even say Obama only beat Romney by 50% to 48% – a sliver that only grows large in the undemocratic electoral college.