SLAVERINGLY

Etymology

Adverb

slaveringly (comparative more slaveringly, superlative most slaveringly)

With drooling saliva.

The half-starved dog leapt slaveringly towards the dish of meat.

Source: Wiktionary


SLAVERING

Slav"er*ing, a.

Definition: Drooling; defiling with saliva.

– Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.

SLAVER

Slav"er, n.

1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.

2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.

Slav"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slavering.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. slafra. See Slabber.]

1. To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.

2. To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.

Slav"er, v. t.

Definition: To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

Slav"er, n.

Definition: Saliva driveling from the mouth. Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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HISTOLOGICALLY

(adverb) involving the use of histology or histological techniques; “histologically identifiable structures”


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