Word Meanings - SLAVERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to SLAVERING)

• DEFILADE
  To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
• DROOL
  To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. His mouth drooling with texts. T. Parker.
• DEFILE
  To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
• SALIVATION
  The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompained with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism. Note: It may be induced by direct chemical or mechanical stimulation, as in mastication of some tasteless substance
• DEFILEMENT
  The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
• SALIVATE
  To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury. over.; as, salivate over the prospects of high profits from an enterprise. Note: Probably influenced by the experiments of Pavlov, who trained
• SALIVAL
  Salivary.
• SALIVANT
  Producing salivation.
• DEFILIATION
  Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.
• SALIVA
  The secretion from the salivary glands. Note: In man the saliva is a more or less turbid and slighty viscid fluid, generally of an alkaline reaction, and is secreted by the parotid, submaxillary, and sublingual glands. In the mouth the saliva is
• DEFILADING
  The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.
• DEFILER
  One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.
• SALIVARY
  Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.
• INSALIVATION
  The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.