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To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.

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  1. v. i. To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.
  2. v. t. To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle.
  3. v. t. To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking.
  4. n. Spittle; saliva; slaver.
  5. n. A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
  6. n. A slabbing machine.
  7. v. let saliva drivel from the mouth
  8. To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.] 1. To wet and foul spittle, or as if with spittle. He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue. Arbuthnot. 2. To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser. Spittle; saliva; slaver. (a) A saw for cutting slabs from logs. (b) A slabbing machine.
  9. To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly,like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver,and slobber.]
  10. v let saliva drivel from the mouth