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Having the power or quality of conservation.

Bowed; bent; curved.

Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvant…

Injurious; disadvantageous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- D…

Disadvantageous. [Obs.] "Disadvantageous ground." Drayton.

A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.

To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. [Slang] Dickens.

Not observant; regardless; heedless. Bp. Hurd. -- In`ob*serv"ant*ly, adv.

Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case. -- Ir*rel"a*vant*ly, adv.

Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

One who levants, or decamps. [Colloq. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to the Levant. J. Spencer.

A female servant.

A male servant.

Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits. Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd. Pope.

onventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

In an observant manner.

Exultant. [Obs.] Holland.

In front; publicly. [Obs.] Spenser.