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rong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.] There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.

An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. [Obs.] Cowell.

The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer. Stars and Stripes. See under Star, n.

Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.

An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.

The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary general, and the department is popularly called the Commissary Department.

The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury. [U. S.]

One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor.

A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.

An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.

Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ness, n.

oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort. The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of this nature. Bacon.

Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.

To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.

A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ. Blackstone.

(anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.

In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.