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cept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. -- To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God accepteth no man's person." Gal. ii. 6.

To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

n or exertion; -- opposed to Ant: sedentary or to Ant: tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.

. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Exaction of forced service; compulsion. [Obs.] Speed.

A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

r separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

, or set apart by authority. Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.

merly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science. "Arms and the man I sing." Dryden.