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A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.

Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish. Servile and thrall-like fear. Milton.

The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

ith pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body. My task of servile toil. Milton. After such bloody toil, we bid good night. Shak.

A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

ing to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.

always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May,

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town. [R.] Turbervile.

To copy; to imitate. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. Denham.

An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

ews, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

To change; to transform; to invert. [R.] Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Shak.

e; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.

One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.

Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.

ex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood. This these scoffers twitted the Christian with. Tillotson. Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. L'Estrange.…

To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church. South.

exorcise. [Obs.] They boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting . . . would not be undeviled by all their exorcisms. Fuller.

To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.

To divest of the title or privilege of an esquire. Swift.