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Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. A most unnatural and faithless service. Shak.

hen running out. Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.

rds; to fasten anything in our thoughts. The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. Swift.

Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. -- Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. -- Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child. -- Putative father, one who is presu…

Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. [Archaic] Never master had a page . . . so feat. Shak. And look how well my garments sit upon me --Much feater than before. Shak.

arked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. To plead for love deserves…

ho present themselves to commune at the Lord's supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching the table. McCheyne.

A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.

A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money. Burrill.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soi…

Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.

ch the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory. Foxe.

A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.