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nclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. I stand like a clerk in my pulpit. Chaucer.

anskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.

Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.] Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer.

Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

cupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. Shak. The writer better scrivener than clerk. Fuller.

Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.

signet (Scots Law), a judicial officer who prepares warrants, writs, etc.; originally, a clerk in the office of the secretary of state.

A Hindoo clerk or accountant. [India]

A director. [Obs. & R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

ar or tangential stress. Rankine. Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter. Clerk Maxwell.

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

To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite. [Obs.] Dr. R. Clerke.

Swarthiness. [R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

ly were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.

Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. Chaucer.

year. Mozley & W. -- Vestry board (Ch. of Eng.), a vestry. See def. 2, above. -- Vestry clerk, an officer chosen by the vestry, who keeps a record of its proceedings; also, in England, one who keeps the parish accounts and books. -- Vestry meeting, the meeting of a vestry or vestry board; also, a meeting of a parish…

Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.] His clerk was woe to do that deed. Robert of Brunne. Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. Chaucer. And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. Spenser.

pacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. Clerk Maxwell.