slaughtermant (slater man)

[ Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen . Shak., Hen. V., iii. 3. 41. All his aids Of ruffians, slaves, and other slaughtermen . B. Jonson, Cat i line, v. 4. slaughterous (sla'ter-us), a. [ The path. scaled the promontory by one or two rapid zigzags, carried in a broken track along the precipi--ous.] Bent on killing; murderous. to us face of a slaty grey rock. Scott , Rob Roy, xxx. Direne , familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me. Shak ., Macbeth, v. 5. 14. Such butchers as yourselues neuer want A colour to excuse your slaughterous mind. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, L. 53). slaughterously (sla'ter-us-li), adv . Murderously; so as to slay. slaughter-weapon (sla'ter-wepon), n. weapon used for slaughtering. A slaughtt (slat), n. [ slauht , slazt, sleaht , sleht , sliht , slyht , killing, slaughter, Every man a slaughter weapon [or battle axe, R. V. in fight, battle (chiefly in comp.) (= OS. slahta = margin] in his hand. Ezek. ix. 2. OFries.slachte=D. slagt = MLG. slacht = OHG. slaundert, n. and v. An obsolete form of slan- slahta , slaht , MHG. slahte , slaht , G. schlacht , killder. ing, slaughter, fight, battle, = Sw. slagt , killing Slav (slav), n. and a . [Also Slave , Sclav , Sclare ; ( slatta = Dan. slæt , mowing; Sklave , Slave (ML. Sclavus , Slavus, with formative- t , sleán (pp. slegen ), etc., Sclaphus , MGr. Σκλάβος, Σθλάβος ), a Slav, a Sla- = Slav vonian; a shortened form of the Slavic word, OBulg. Slovieninŭ (= Ru . Slavyaninŭ, MGr. Σκλαβηνός, ML. Sclavenus ), a Slav, Slavonian, Sloven i an; according to Miklosich the formation of the word with the suffix -ienŭ points to a local name as the origin; the ordinary derivation from OBulg. slovo, a word, or slava, glory, fame, is untenable. Hence Slavic, Slavonian, Slavonic, Sloven i an, slave2, slavine, etc.] I. n. One of a race of peoples widely spread in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe; a Slavonian. The Slavs are divided into two sections-the southeastern and the western. The former section comprises the Ru ians, Bulgarians, Serbo-Croatians, and Slovenes; the latter, the Poles, Bohemians, Moravians, Slovaks, Wends, and Kashoubes. II. a . Slavic; Slavonian. Slavdom (slàv'dum), n. [ Slavdom . Slavel, n. and a . See Slav . 44 5687 Slave-fork.