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One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. Derham.

That which preserves from injury. [Obs.] "A conservatory of life." Jer. Taylor.

A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc.

To look at attentively; to observe; to examine. She considereth a field, and buyeth it. Prov. xxxi. 16.

To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

his power To act consistent with himself an hour. Pope. With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent. South.

Custom, habit; usage. [R.] To observe this consuetude or law. Barnes .

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not. O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee. Ps. xxxvi. 10. You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long acustomed to lead. Pope.

writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.

That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. "Speak without control." Dryden.

To be convenient; to serve. [Obs.] When that is known and golden time convents. Shak.

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.

To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

To plant and preserve, as a copse. Swift.

abundance or plenty of anything. [Obs.] She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus. B. Jonson.

A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served.

To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. [Obs.] The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps. Bacon. Army corps, or (French) Corps d'armée (k, a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself. -- Corps de logis (ke l Etym: [F., body of the house], t…