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To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Pope.

A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.

once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.

uthoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18.

Disadvantage; inconvenience. Bacon.

Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [R.]

What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge. The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. Channing.

service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.

A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch. What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. )

relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

A lose of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. The avaridrawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam.

Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.

A servant; a drudge. [Obs.] Huloet.

One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.