1. [n]  a person who is owned by someone
2. [n]  someone who works as hard as a slave
3. [v]  work very hard, like a slave

Slave
Mende Nazer was born into the Karko tribe in Sudan, and after a peaceful and happy childhood in her mountain village, she was kidnapped by Arabs, raped, and forced to work as a maid in Khartoum--her first contact with such marks of civilization as silverware and television. She was also repeatedly beaten and insulted. Her memoir is a reminder that the world has a long way to go in eradicating such seemingly outdated abuses as slavery and exploitation of children.

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1. \Slave\, n.
   See {Slav}.
   

2. \Slave\, n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave,
   Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the
   national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi
   or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans.
   See {Slav}.]
   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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}.
   

3. \Slave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slaved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Slaving}.]
   To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
   

4. \Slave\, v. t.
   To enslave. --Marston.
   

Jer. 2:14 (A.V.), but not there found in the original. In Rev. 18:13 the word "slaves" is the rendering of a Greek word meaning "bodies." The Hebrew and Greek words for slave are usually rendered simply "servant," "bondman," or "bondservant." Slavery as it existed under the Mosaic law has no modern parallel. That law did not originate but only regulated the already existing custom of slavery (Ex. 21:20, 21, 26, 27; Lev. 25:44-46; Josh. 9:6-27). The gospel in its spirit and genius is hostile to slavery in every form, which under its influence is gradually disappearing from among men.