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Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something; as:

One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight. Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to Ant: late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit. Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.…

A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude. Kent.

A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

ts divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

ewise; to get in by degrees. -- To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.

By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. [R.] "Effeminately vanquished." Milton.

the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic] As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. Chaucer. Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. Spenser.

Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

One chosen or set apart. Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. Is. xlii. 1.

Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.

a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

ts in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.