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Injury; mischief. We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. Sir T. Browne.

Not identical; different; individual. To offend, and judge, are distinct offices. Shak.

That distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

. Congressional district. See under Congressional. -- District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. -- District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. -- District judge, one who presides over a d…

A chief officer of state. [India]

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

The office or dignity of a doge.

ntrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. Martin's office is now the second door in the street. Arbuthnot. Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc. -- In doors, or Within doors, within the house. -- Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished…

An officer of the French customs. [Anglicized form douaneer.]

The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.

rates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.

hich the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.

An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

ock which enters the hollow stem of the key. -- Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. -- Vertical drill, a drill press.

To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

One who administers two offices. Fuller.

One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

lling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.