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

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

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

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

ead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.

t; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17.

Payment of soldiers or servants; wages. [Obs.] The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. Sir J. Davies.

A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.

one by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere. I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. I will not eat till I have told mine errand. Gen. xxiv. 33. mission.…

Associate; fellow; of the same condition. [Obs.] "His even servant." Wyclif (Matt.

nd deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system. The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States…

riend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant. So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he. Milton.

Not observant of promises or covenants.

n one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.

atient . . . fees the doctor. Dryden. There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed. Shak.

A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

ition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular. [R.] As to his being on the foot of a servant. Walpole.

A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.

The tithing itself. Bouvier. The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other. Macaulay.