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Sclav

Sclav \Sclav\, Sclave \Sclave\, n. Same as Slav.

Sclav

Slav \Slav\ (sl[aum]v or sl[a^]v), n.; pl. Slavs. [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]

Usage examples of "sclav".

One of the two Sclavs broke in, and said we must make friends, and so made me sit down, opened a bottle, and said we must drink together.

With the Swiss and the Sclavs it is really a fatal disease, which carries them off if they are not sent home immediately.