cows, theep, goats, hides, butter, cheese, fish, (2.) SLAB. n. so 1. A puddle. Ainsworto. and wool. The cattle swim over to the main land 2. A plane of stone ; as a marble slab. through a mile or half a mile of sea. Thousands (3.) SLAB, is also used for an outside fappy plank of these are yearly exported at from L.2 to L.3 or board fawed off from the sides of a tirober tree. each. Many of them are driven to England, (4.) SLAB, in the cotton manufacture. See wbere they are fatted for the market, and counted SPINNING, 2. delicious. In Sky appear many ruins of Danish (1.) * TO SLABBER. V. n. (slabben, slabberen, forts, watch towers, beacons, temples, and le. Dutch.) 1. To let the spittle fall from the mouth; pulchral monuments. All the forts are termed to drivel. 2. To shed or pour any thing. Duns; as Dun-Skudborg, Duo-Derig, Dun-Skeri- (2.) * To SLABBER, v. a. (slaver is the word ness, Duo-David, &c. used.] 1. To smear with spittle. He slabbered (1.) * SKY COLOUR. n. š. (sky and colour:] me all over, from cheek to cheeki Arbuthnot. 2. An azure colour; the colour of the ky.-A solu. To shed; to spill. tion as clear as water, with only a light touch of The milk pan and cream-pot so slabber'd and skycolour. Boyle. tost. Tusser. (2.) SKY-COLOUR. To give this colour to glass, * SLABBERER. n. s. (from slabber.) He who fet in the furnace a pot of pure metal of fritt from Nabbers ; an idiot. rocbetta or barilla, but the rochetta fritt does * SLABBY. adj. {The same with slab.l. 1. beft; as foon as the metal is well purified, take Thick; viscous. Not used - In the cure of an for a pot of solb. of metal 6 oz. of brass calcined ulcer, with a moist intemperies, slabby and greasy by itself; put it by degrees at two or three times medicaments are to be forborn. Wiseman.. into the metal, stirring and mixing it well every Wet; Aoody: in low language.-time, and skimming the metal with a ladle ; at When waggish boys the itunted besom ply, the end of two hours, the whole will be well mix. To rid the slabby pavements, pass not by. Gay. ed, and a proof may be taken; if the colour be SLAB-LINE, n. s. in sea language, a small cord found right, let the whole ftand 24 hours longer palling up behind a ship's main sail or fore-Sail; and in the furnace, and it will then be fit to work, being reeved through a block attached to the low- , and will prove of a most beautiful sky colour. er part of the yard, is thence transmitted in two SKY-COLOURED. adj. (sky and colour.] Blue ; branches to the foot of the fail, to which it is fasazure ; like the sky.-The blue water-nymphs are tened. It is used to truss up the fail as occa- . drefred in skycoloured. Addison. fion requires, and more particularly for the con.., SKYDSJÓRA, a town of Norway, in Agger- venience of the pilot or neersman, that they may bays; 14 miles S. of Chriftiania. look forward beneath it as the ship advances. SKYDY ED. adj. (sky and dye.) Coloured like SLABODA, a town of the dismembered kingthe ky. dom of Poland, in the ci-devant palatinate of Bra. There figs, skydyed, a purple hue disclose. Pope. claw; 40 miles NW. of Braclaw. SKYE, or Sky. See ŚKY, N° 3. (1.) * SLACK. adj. (slaec, Saxon; slaken, INar. * SKYED. adj. [from sky.] Enveloped by the dick; yslack, Wellh; laxus, Lat.] 1. Not tense ; kies. This is unauthorised, and inelegant.- not hard drawn; loose. - He gives a particular cau. O'er the sky'd mountains to the shadowy vale. tion in this case to make a slack compression. Ar.. Thomson. but hnot. 2. Relaxed; weak; not holding faft.SKYE Y. adj. [from sky Not very elegantly From his slack hand the garland wreath'd for formed.] Ethereal. Eve. Down dropp'd. Milton. Servile to all the skyey influences. Shak. 3. Remiss; not diligent ; not cager; pot fervent, (1.) * SKYISH. adj. [from sky. Coloured by If so be our zeal and devotion to Godward be the ether; approaching the sky. slack, the alacrity and fervour of others ferveth as T' o’ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head a present spur. Hooker.-Seeing bis soldiers slack Of blue Olympus. Shuk. Hamlet. and timorous, he reproved them. Knolles.(1.) * SKYLARK. n. s. (sky and lurk.) A lark Nor were it just, would he resume that shape, that mounts and fings.--He next proceeded to the That slack devotion should his thunder 'scape. skylark. Spe&ator. Waller. (2.) SKYLARK. See ALAUDA, and Lark, Rebellion, now began, for lack * SKYLIGHT. n. so (sky and light.] A window Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack. Hudibras. placed in a room, not laterally, but in the cieling. 4. Not violent; not rapid. -A monftrous fowl dropt through the skylight, Their pace was formal, grave, and slack. Dryd, near his wife's apartment. Arbuth. and Pope. s. Not intense. A handful of slack and dried (1.) SKYROCKET. 1. s. (sky and rocket.] 'A hops spoil many pounds. Mortimer. kind of firework, which flies high, and burns as (2.) SLACK. n. s. [from the verb To slack.] it flies.- I considered a comet, or, in the language Small coal; coal broken in small parts; as slacked of the vulgar, a blazing star, as a skyrocket discharg. lime turns to powder. ed by an hand that is almighty. Addison. (3.) SLACK-WATER, in sea-language, denotes the (2.) SKYROCKETS. See PYROTECHNY. interval between the lux and reflux of the ride, (n.) • SLAB. adj. (A word, I suppose, of the or between the last of the ebb and the first of the same original with slabber, or slaver.] Thick; Rood, during which the current is interrupted, viscous; glutinous. and the water apparently remains in a state of Make the gruel thick and slab. Shak. rel. (1.) * T. E 2 a (1.) * To SLACK. ? u. a. (from the adje&ive.] slakes and crumbles into fine pou der. Moxon. (1.) * TO SLACKEN. } 1. To loofen ; to make To abate. less tight. Thele raging fires Slack all thy fails, and fear to come. Dryden. Will slacken, if his breath ftir not their flames, Had Ajax been employed, our slacken'd fails Miltoz. Had still at Aulis waited happy gales. Dryden. 4. To languish; to fail; to Hag. Ainsworth. 2. To relax; to remit. SLACKEN, $. s. in metallurgy, a term used by And makes the body to advance, retire, the miners to express a spongy and semivitrified To turn or ftop, as fhe them slacks or strains. substance which they used to mix with the ores of Davies. metals to prevent their fusion. It is the scoria or Taught not to slack nor strain its tender strings. fcum separated from the furface of the former fy Pope. fions of metals. To this they frequently add lime3. To ease; To mitigate. Pbilips seems to have stone, and sometimes a kind of coarse iron,ore, in used it by mistake for slake.—The hard reftraint the running of the poorer gold ores. which they were used unto, now slacked, they • SLACKLY. adv. (from slack.) 1. Loosely; grow more loose. Spenfer. not tightly; not closely, 2. Negligently; ceIf there be cure or charm misslyTo respite or deceive, or slack the pain That a king's children should be fo.convey'd, Ot this ill manfion. Milton's Par. Lol. So slackly guarded. Shak. Cymb. That poor helpless man might slack * SLACKNESS. n. s [from slack.) 1. Loose. His present thirst, and matter find for toil. Philips. ness; not tightness. 2. Negligence; inattention; 4. To remit for want of eagerness. remifsness.- It concerneih the duty of the church A firm conscience ; which shall arm each step by law to provide, that the slackness of men may Ta'en tor the state, and teach me slack no peace. not cause the commandments of God to be us. Ben Jonson. executed. Hooker,- These thy offices, Milton. So rarely kind, are as interpreters 5. To canle to be remitted ; to make to abate. Of my behind-man slackness. Sbak. Wint. Tok. You may sooner by imagination quicken or slack From man's effeminate slackness it begins. a motion, than raise or cease it. Bacon.-This Milton. doctrine must supersede and slacken all induftry3. Want of tendency.-When they have no dir. and endeavour. Hammond. position to shoot out above their lips there is a Extol not riches then, the toil of fools slackness to heal. Sharp. 4. Weakness; not force; The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare ; more not intenseness.-Through the slackness of motion, apt it might gather some aptness to puirefy. Brerew. To slucken virtue, and abate her edge. Milton. SLADE BAY, a bay of Ireland, on the coal Balls of this metal slack'd At'lania's peace, of Waterford harbour, Munster. And on the aa’rous youth bestow'd the race. * SLAG. n. S. The drofs or recrement of me M'aller. tal.-Not only the calces but the glaffes of metai -ne conduces to the poet's aim, the other slack. may be of differing colours, as I have observed ens his pace. Dryden. 6. To relieve; to unbend. about the glass or slag of copper. Boyle. Here have I seen the king, when great affairs SLAGELSE, a town of Denmark, in Zealand, Gave leave to slacken and unbend his cares, 42 miles WSW. of Copenhagen. Lon. 11. 29. E. Attended to the chase. Denbam. Lat. 55 26. N. 7. To withold ; to use less liberally. He mult SLAGUEN, a town of Germany, in Pomera. of neceflity hold bis virtue to you, whose worthi- nia, on the Wipper; 10 miles from Rugenwold. nefs would fir it up where it wanted, rather than * SLATE. n. s. A weaver's reed. Ainsworth. slack it where there is such abundance. Shak. 8. * SLAIN. The participle paflive of slay.--The To crumble ; to deprive of the power of cohesion. slain of the Lord (hall be many. Isa. Ixvi, 16. -Some unflacked lime cover with ashes, and let And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice it ftand till rain comes to slack the lime. Mortimer. he flew the slain. Dryden. To neglect. SLAINS, a parish of Scotland, in Aberdeen-If then they chanc'd to slack ye, Mire, on the coast of Buchan, about s miles long, We could controul them. Shak. King Lear. and 3 broad, of a triangular form. 'Í'he sea coait This good chance, tha: thus much favourelh, extends 6 miles, 4 of which are rocky and 2 sandy. He slacks not. Daniel's Civil War. The rocks are high, indented with immense charms, Slack not the good presage. Dryden. and abounding with capacious caves. One of 30. To repress; to make lets quick or forcible.-' these is above 200 feet long, and another called I hould be griev'd, young prince, to think the Dropping Cave, or White Cave, is covered on my presence the infide with beautiful white ftalactites. The Unbent your thoughts, and slacken'd'em to arms. furface is level; the soil fertile; and as gravel, shells, Addison. fand, marl, and limestone, abound, agriculture is (2.) * SLACK 0. n. } 1. To be remifs; much improved. The population, in 1791, was (2.) * SLACKEN. to neglect.-When thou 1117; decrease 169, Gince 1955. The only planta. Thalt vow uoto the Lord, slack not to pay it. Duet. tions are around Gordon Lodge, the elegant feat xxiii. 11., 2. To lose the power or cohesion.- of Mr Gordon of Pitlurg. The ruins of the an. The fire, in lime burnt, lies hid, so that it appears cient cattle of Slains, which was demolifed in to be cold; but water excites it again, whereby it 1594 by James VI. on Huntly's rebellion, are till to be seen upon a peninsulated rock. There are By pra&ice barden'd in thy slandering trade. allo relics of a chapel built in the 9th century, and Dryden. dedicated to St Adamnan, the disciple of ST Of all her dears she never slander'd one. Pope. COLONBA. # SLANDERER. 8. s. [from slander.] One (1.)* To SLAKE. v. 4. [from slack, Skinner i who belies another; one whọ lays false imputafrom slock, INandick, to quench, Mr Lyea] 1. To tions on another.- Endure not that they thould qüench; to extinguish. be railers or slanderers. Taylor. Himself with falves to health for to restore, Thou shalt answer for this, thou slanderer. And slake the heavenly fire. Spenser. Dryden. It could aot slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. * SLANDEROUS. adj. [from slander.] 1. Ut. Shak. Henry VI. tering reproachful-falsehoods.She with her cold hands slakes What king so strong His spirits, the sparks of life. Crashaw. Can tie the gall up in the slan'drous tongue ? Amaz’d, with running water we prepare Sbak. To quench the sacred fire, and slake his bair. To me belongs Dryden. The care to fhun the blast of sland'rous tongues. The fragrant fruit from bending branches Pope. Ihabe, 2. Containing reproachful falsehoods; calumnious. And with the crykal fream their thirst at plea. I was never able till now to choke the mouth of sure slake. Bluckmore. such detractors, with the certain knowledge of Ainidit the running stream he slakes his thirst. their slanderous untruths. Spenser. Addison, To ease ourselves of divers sland'rous loads. :. It is used of lime; so that it is uncertain whc. Shak. Julius Cæsar. ther the original notion of To slack or slake lime, By detraction and a slanderous mifreport he be to powder or quench it.-That which he saw luts his bosom to his best friends. South. happened to be tres lime, and gathered before • SLANDEROUSLY. adv. [from slanderous.) any rain hid fallea to slake it. Woodward. Calumnioudly; with false reproach.-I may the (..)Slake, v. n [This is apparently from better satisfy them who object these doubts, and slack.] 1. To grow less lense; to be relaxed. slanderously bark at the courses which are held But when the body's (trongeft finews slake, against their traiterous earl. Spenser. Then is the soul molt active, quick, and gay. SLANETZ, a river of Rullia, which runs into Davies, the Tobol, 60 miles S. of Tobolsk. .. To go out; to be extinguished. (1.) SLANEY, a river of Ireland, in the county She perceiving that his fame did slake. Brown. of Wexford, which runs into Wexford harbour. * To SLAM. v. a. lema, INandick ; schlagen, (2.) SLANEY, an ancient city of Bohemia,' with Dutch.) To Naughter; to crush. A word not a castle, formerly very hourishing, 18 miles NW. used but in low conversation, of Prague. Lon. 18. 27. E. Lat. 50. 16. N. SLAMANNAN, or St LAWRENCE, a parish * SLANG. The preterite of sling, David of Scotland, in the SW. corner of Stirlingshire, slang a fone. 1 Sam. xvii. about s miles long, and from 3 to 4 broad, on the SLANGERUP, a town of Denmark, in the banks of the Avon, The foil on its banke is light ille of Zealand ; 16 miles NW. of Copenhagen. and fertile; but at a distance degenerates into a (1.) * SLANK. n. s. Calga marina ) An herb. trong clay, moor or mofs. The population, in Ainsworth. 1792, was 1010; the decrease 199, since 1953. (2.) SLANK, in botany. See ALGÆ. There are relics of ancient castles, and 2 conical * SLANT. adj. [from slanghe, a serpent, artificial mounts Gmilar to those at DUNIPACE. SLANTING. Dutch, Skinner.] Oblique ; SLAMMERSDORP, a town of Germany, in not direct; not perpendicular.Holstein ; 7 miles NE, of Segeborg. Late the clouds SLANDER. n. s. [from the verb.) 1. False Tine the slant lightning. Milton, invective He can the whole survey When slanders do not live in tongues. Shak. With a dire& or with a slanting ray. Blackm. And make the careful magistrate * SLANTLY. 2 adu. [from slant.] ObliqueThe mark of slander. Ben. Jonson's Catiline. * SLANTWISE. ) ly; not perpendicularly ; -We are not to be dejected by the slanders of Dope.bad men. Nelson. 2. Disgrace ; reproach.- Some maketh a hollowness half a foot deef, Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb! With four sets in it, set slantwise asleep. Tusser. Shak. Richard III. (1.) * SLAP. n. s. (schlup, German.) A blow. 3. Disreputation; ill name. Properly with the hand open, or with something You shall not find me, daughter, rather broad than sharp. After the slander of most stepmothers, The laugh, the slap, the jocund curse go Ill-ey'd unto you. Sbak. Thomson. TO SLANDER. v, a. (esclaundrie, French; scan. (2.) * Slap. adj. [from the noun.) With a dalum, Latin. To censure falsely; to belie. sudden and violent blow.- Peg's servants comSlander Valentine plained ; and if they offered to come into the With falsehood cowardice. Shak. warehouse, then straight went the yard slap over He hath slandered thy servant. 1 Sam. xix. 27. their ooddle. John Bull. -Give me leave to speak as earnestly in com- * To SLAP. v. a. (from the noun.) To strike mending it, as you have done in slandering it.- with a Qlap. Dick, who thus long had passive fat, blue steganium is very well known as an useful Here stroak'd his chin, and cock'd bis hat ; and valuable Atone, of a fine smooth texture and Then slapp'd his hand upon the board. Prior. glossy surface, moderately heavy, and of a pale * SLAPDASH. interj. (from slap and darb] greyish blue; composed of a multitude of even All at once : as any thing broad falls with a slap plates, laid close upon one another, and eafily into the water and dashes it about.--A low word. splitting at the commissures of them; this is allo And yet, slapdash, is all again very common in the north parts of England, and In every finew, nerve, and vein. Prior. is used in moft places for the covering of houses. SLARADIA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Na. There are other species of this date, viz. the tolia, 28-iniles NNW. of Eskir Shehr. brownish blue friable fteganium, usually called SLASH. 1. s. [from the verb.) s. Cut ; wound. coal slate ; the greyith black friable fteganium, --Some few received some cuts and slashes that commonly called shiver ; and the greyith blue had drawn blood, Clarendon. 2. A cut in cloth. sparkling Reganium. 4. The friable, aluminous, Here snip and nip, and cut, and Nifh and slash, black feganium, being the Irish Nate of the shops: Like to a cenfor in a barber's shop. Shak. this is composed of a multitude of thin Bakes, Diftinguish'd slashes deck the great, laid very evenly and regularly over one another, As each excels in birth or state. Prior. and splits very regularly at the commissures of (1.) * To SLASH. v. a. (slasa, to ftrike, Ilan. them. It is common in many parts of Ireland, dick.] 1. To cut ; to cut with long cuts. 2. and is found in some places in England always ly. To lah. Slash is improper. ing near the surface in very thick strata. In me. Daniel, a sprightly swain, that used to slash dicine it is used in hemorrhagies of all kinds with The vigorous steeds that drew his lord's calash. success, and is taken often as a good medicine in King. fevers. The island of Eusdale, one of the HE. (2.) * To SLASH. v. n. To strike at random BRIDES, on the west coast of Scotland, is entirely with a sword; to lay about him, composed of late. The stratum is 36 feet thick. The knights with their bright burning blades About two millions and a half, at the rate of 20. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. F... per 1000, are sold annually to England, Canada, Not that I'd lop the beauties from his book, the West Indies, and Norway. Like slashing Bentley with his desp'rate hook. (3.) SLATE, in geography, a diftrict in the ille Pope. of Sky, on the SE. fide of the island. It is a peSLATCH. n. s. (A sea term.] The middle ninsula, and terminates in a rugged promontory, part of a rope or cable that hangs down loose. called the Point of Slate. Bailey. * To SLATE. V. a. (from the noun.) To cover (1.) * SLATE. n. s. [from slit: slate is in some the roof, to tile.counties a crack; or from esclate, a tile, French,] Sonnets and elegies to Chloris, A grey stone, easily broken into thin plates, Would raise a house about two stories, which are used to cover houses, or to write upon. A lyric ode would slate. Swin. -A square cannot be so truly drawn upon a slate (1.) SLATEFORD, or SCLATE FORD, a village as it is conceived in the mind. Grew's Cosmol. of Mid Lothian, 3 miles W. of Edinburgh. A small piece of a flat slate the ants laid over the (2.) SLATEFORD, or Sclateford, a village of hole of their nest, when they foresaw it would Scotland, in Forfarshire ; about 6 miles NE of rain. Addison. Brechin. (2.) SLATE, (Stegania), a stone of a compact SLATE MOUNT, a mountain of the United texture and laminated ftructure, splitting into fine States, in Virginia, abounding with dates : 6 miles plates. (See MINERALOGY, P. II. Cb. IV. Cl. I. W. of Richmond. Ord. I. Gen. XVII. Sp. 1.) Dr Hill distinguishes * SLATER. 5. s. [from slate.] One who cofour species of stegania, 1. The whitish Atega. vers with Nates or tiles. nium, being a soft, friable, flaty stone, of a tole. (1.) SLATINA, a town of European Turkey, rably fine and close texture, considerably heavy, in Moldavia, 18 miles NW. of Niemecz. perfectly dull and deftitute of brightness, varie. (2.) SLATINA, a town of Walachia, on the E. gated with a pale brown or brownish yellow. bank of the Aluta, 2 miles NE. of Brancovan, and This species is common in many counties of Eng. 50 W. of Buchorest. land, lying near the surface of the ground. It is * SLATTERN. n. s. (slaeti, Swedish.] A wo. generally very full of perpendicular as well as ho. man negligent, not elegant or nice.rizontal cavities, many of which are filled up To pinch the slatterns black and blue, with a fpar a little purer and more cryftalline than For leaving you their work to do. Hudibras. the relt; and is commonly used for covering -A goffip in politics is a slattern in her family. houses, 2. The red steganium is a very fine and Addison. elegant Nate, of a smooth surface, firm and com. And love can make a slattern of a Nut. Dryd. pact texture, considerably heavy, and of a very The new scoured manteau and the slattern beautiful pale purple, glittering all over with air. Gay. small gloffy spangles: it is composed of a multi- * SLATY. adj. [from slate.] Having the natude of very ibin plates or flakes, laid closely and ture of date. All the stone that is slaty, with a evenly over one another, and cohering pretty texture long, and parallel to the fite of the stratum, firmly: this is very common in the northern parts will split only lengthways or horizontally. Woodw. of England, and is much valued as a strong and (1.) * SLAVE. n. s. (esclave, French. It is said beautiful covering for housee. 3. The common to have its original from the Slavi, or Sclavonians, subdued pendant fubdued and fold by the Venetians.] 1. One valleys, betwixt the hills, are wide and extenfive, mancipated to a matter ; not a freeman ; a de producing, in great abundance, very good rice, millet, jamms, potatoes, and other fruits, all godd The banish'a Kent, who in disguise in their kind." He adds, " In short, it is a land Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service that yields its manurers as plentiful a crop as Improper for a nave. Shak. they can with, with great quantities of palm wine Thou that waft seal'd in thy nativity and oil, befides being well furnished with all sorts The Rave of nature and the son of hell. Shak. of tame as well as wild beafts; but that the laft Of guests he makes them faves. Milton. fatal wars bad reduced it to a miferable condition, -The condition of servants was different from and stripped it of moft of its inhabitants.” The what it is now, they being generally faves. South. adjoining country of Petų, he says, “ was for- Perspective a painter must not want; yet with. merly fo powerful and populous, that it ftruck out fubje&ting ourselves so wholly to it as to be terror into all the neighbouring nations ; but it is come saves of it. Dryden. at present fo drained by continual wars, that it is Tomorrow, thould we thus express our entirely ruined: there does not remain inbabit. friendship, ants sufficient to till the country, though it is so Each might receive a have into his arms. Addif. fruitful and pleasant that it may be compared to 3. One that has lost the power of resistance the country of Anta juft before described. Fre. Slaves to our passions we become. Waller. quently (says our author), when walking through -When once men are become Naves to their it before the laft war, I have seen it abound with paffions and lufts, heo are they moft disposed to fine well-built and populous towns, agreeably doubt of the existence of God. Wilkins. 3. It enriched with vast quantities of corn, cattle, palm is used proverbially for the lowest fate of life... wine, and oil. The inbabitants all applying them. Ne ther thall meanness excuse the poorest pave. felves without any diftin&tion to agriculture, fome Nelson. sow corn, others press oil, and draw wine from (1.) SLAVE. See SLAVERY. palm trees, with both which it is plentifully (3.) SLAVE Coast, a country of Africa adjoin. Atored.” Smith gives much the same account of ing to the Gold Coast and IVORY COAST, and the before-mentioned parts of the Gold Coaft; and Stuated between these and Benin; comprehending adds, " the country about D'Elmina and Cape the kingdoms of Ardra, Popo, Koto, Whidab, &c. Coast is much the same for beauty and goodness, lo politics, religion, customs, and manners, the but more populous; and the nearer we come natives greatly resemble those of the Gold Coaft. towards the SLAVE COAST, the more delightful In this country the Europeans have the greateft and rich all the countries are, producing all sorts number of forts and factories for carrying on the of trees, fruits, roots, and herbs, that grow within disgraceful and inhuman traffic, whence the coun. the torrid zone." Barbot also remarks, with try is named. By means of the negro factors this respect to the countries of Anta and Adom, trade is carried on above 700 miles back in the “ That the soil is very good and fruitful in corn inland country, whereby great numbers of Naves and other produce; which it affords in such are procured, as well by means of the wars which plenty, that besides what serves for their own use, arise amongst the negroes, or are fomented by the they always export great quantities for fale: they Europeans, as those brought from the back coun- have a competent number of cattle, both tame try. Here we find the natives more reconciled to and wild, and the rivers are abundantly stored the Earopean manners and trade; but at the same with various kinds of fith." time, much more incred to war, and ready to (4.) Slave FALLS, a beautiful cataract of N. affif the European traders in procuring loadings America, in the river Winnipeg, roo yards broad, for the great number of vessels which come yearly and 20 feet high. Lon. 95.20. W. Lat. 50.6. N. on those coifts for Daves. This part of Guinea (5.) SLAVE Lake, a very extensive lake in the is agreed by historians to be, in general, extra. NW. part of N. America, above 200 miles long, ordinarily fruitful and agreeable; producing (ac- and about 12 broad. Its N. bay is 40 leagues cording to the difference of the soil) vast quan. broad, and 6 fathoms deep. The Dog. Ribbed tities of rice and other grain, plenty of fruit and Indians inhabit the country on its N. coat. It roots, palm wine and oil, and fish in great abun. has an outlet called Mackenzie's River, which runs dance, with much tame and wild cattle. Bofman, into the Frozen Ocean. The centre of this lake principal factor for the Dutch at D'Elmina, speak- lies in about Lon. 115. 0. W. Lat. 61. 26. N." ing of the country of Axim, which is ftuated to. (6.) SLAVE RIVER, a river of N. America, which wards the beginning of the Gold Coast, fays, rises from Lake Athapesion, runs a course NW.by * The negro inhabitants are generally very rich, W. and falls into Mackenzie's River by a mouth driving a great trade with the Europeans for gold: one mile broad. That they are industriously employed, either in (7.) Slave Trade. See SLAVE-TRADE. trade, fishing, or agriculture; but chiefly in the * To SLAVE. V. n. (from the noun.] To drudge; cultore of rice, which grows here in an incredible to moil; to toil.-abundance, and is transported hence all over the Had women been the makers of our laws, Gold Coast; the inhabitants, in lieu, returning The men Mould have at cards from morn to full fraught with millet, jamms, potatoes, and night. Savift. palm oil.” The fame author, speaking of the SLAVE-HOLDER, n. S. (from Nave and holder.] country of ANTA, says, " This country, as well One who purchases and keep8 Naves, to make as the Gold Coast, abounds with hills, enriched money by their labour. See SLAVERY. with extraordinary high and beautiful trees; its SLAVENSK, a town of Ruffa, in Ekaterino Daf, |