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Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon. "A stock charge against Raleigh." C. Kingsley. Stock company (Theater), a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or perma…

To make subservient. Subjected to his service angel wings. Milton.

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

a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man. Hast thou not made me here thy substitute Milton. Ladies [in Shakespeare's age] . . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol. De Quincey.

im sued. Chaucer. I was beloved of many a gentle knight, And sued and sought with all the service due. Spenser. Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me. Tennyson.

her comes again. Bacon. Out of suits, having no correspondence. [Obs.] Shak. -- Suit and service (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war to follow them and do military service; -- called also suit service. Blackstone. -- Suit broker, one who…

To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.

rmed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services. Howell.

or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.

One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.

The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.

charist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by "lifting up the heart" to God.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.

A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

m, commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.

duced from China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. -- Tea service, the appurtenances or utensils required for a tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. -- Tea set, a tea service. -- Tea table, a table on which tea furniture is set…

resent for acceptance. You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their services to Lord Timon. Shak.

That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.