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Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency. A distemper eminently armed from heaven. De Foe.

med land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, b…

Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C.

s; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.

as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve. The fifth had charge sick persons to attend. Spenser. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

With a crust made by browning in the oven; as, spaghetti may be served au gratin.

reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.

To wait on, serve, or attend. [Obs.]

e foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

A support or resource in reserve. This project Should have a back or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof. Shak.

avenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie. "To join in Hymen's bands." Shak.

Indian fig. See Banyan. Banian days (Naut.), days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.